Decades after “breakup,” Doom’s Carmack and Romero are rehashing their legacy

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• The Twitch-streamed event, announced on social media late last week by Romero, will take place on Doom's anniversary of December 10

• Carmack and Romero will discuss the game and its legacy with moderator and Rocket Jump author David L. Craddock

• But "the two Johns" say that reports of their falling out have been exaggerated over the years

• (Update: Romero takes issue with this story in his recent memoir, writing that the time-tracking story actually took place at Cygnus Studios. "Carmack never programmed anything on my computer, a fact I've confirmed with him, nor did he give me a list of my hours," Romero wrote. "Rather, he accused me of not being fully focused on Quake.")

• Carmack left Meta with a frustration-filled departure message and now puts his professional time into AGI startup Keen Technologies.

• In recent years, the Romero Games label has played host to Sigil, a Doom WAD file marketed as "the unofficial fifth episode" of the game (Sigil II will launch on December 10)

• Romero also uses the book to accuse other writers over the years of playing up the "animosity" between the pair because "it makes for a better story."

• As Carmack stated in a 2022 episode of Lex Fridman’s podcast

• Romero was clear in a recent Reddit AMA