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Review Empire Of Sin (Switch) - A Criminal Waste Of A Superb Premise
Eliot Mess
Romero Games' Empire of Sin is an excellent premise for a turn-based strategy/management mash-up that sticks you in 1920s Chicago during the heyday of Al Capone and a host of other real-life gangster legends and charges you with building up your very own criminal enterprise. It's an era that absolutely oozes atmosphere and one that we...
Latest Romero Games News
Monday7th Jul 2025
News Romero Games "Is Not Closed" Following Xbox Layoffs
Update: Reassessing staffing, but the studio is not shutting down
It's been another tough week for the video game industry and the fallout from Microsoft's layoffs led to funding cuts at John and Brenda Romero's studio, Romero Games. Now, following some claims the independent studio had completely shut its doors, Irish publication The Journal has...
Thursday3rd Jul 2025
News Romero Games Hit With Layoffs Following Microsoft Xbox Cuts
Funding for its unannounced FPS has been "cancelled"
Romero Games, the studio co-founded by DOOM co-creator and his wife, John & Brenda Romero, has been hit with layoffs after funding for an unannounced FPS was "cancelled". VideoGamer reports that the upcoming shooter was being funded b
Wednesday20th Jul 2022
News DOOM's Legendary Co-Creator John Romero Is Making A Brand New FPS
"We're working with a major publisher"
The absolutely legendary game designer and programmer John Romero has announced he's working with a major publisher on an "all-new" first-person shooter and is now hiring. In an announcement on social media, John shared the following message on behalf of Romero Games - calling for talented people to join the...
Tuesday15th Dec 2020
News Empire Of Sin Is Getting A Massive Patch To Fix A Whole Host Of Problems
"Fixed pooling blood issue"
Empire of Sin sure promised a lot. The premise was fantastic, and the pedigree of the team behind it – led by none other than Brenda and John Romero – gave plenty of reason to be optimistic about this "gangsters meets XCOM" turn-based offering. Sadly, as you'll know if you consulted our review, Empire of Sin
Monday17th Jun 2019
Hands On Empire Of Sin Is A Complex Crime Caper Created By Video Game Royalty
"Prohibition strategy" is a genre now
During one of our E3 appointments, we sat in a tiny, packed room to observe a 20-minute gameplay demo for Empire of Sin, the upcoming 1920s-themed strategy game slated to release Spring 2020. Surrounding us were no fewer than five developers, including John Romero, famed creator of the original DOOM and Quake...
