Midway gets talent

[A Black Falcon]

http://pc.ign.com/articles/454/454807p1.html

John Romero & Tom Hall Off To Midway
A return to mainstream games for the duo.
October 14, 2003 - Recent internet reports indicated that John Romero (creator of the nefarious Daikatana) and Tom Hall (brains behind the excellent Anachronox) had accepted positions at Midway. Romero has stated on his forums that this true and also revealed what their positions will be.

Hall will become Creative Director of projects being developed internally and externally as well as contributing towards the games in a creative capacity. Romero will be Project Lead for an internally developed game (rumours indicate a new version of Gauntlet). Further rumours suggest that Romero will be tasked with restructuring the internal development teams although we have been unable to get confirmation on that as of yet.

Romero put special emphasis on his intention to turn the Midway developers into "hardcore developers," but also mentioned Monkeystone Games, where he had been working with Hall on mobile platform games, will continue to be operated by Lucas Davis.

We shall soon see how their new venture turns out.

Very interesting... John Romero and Tom Hall have gone to Midway Games. Strange choice... they've always been PC game developers and that's a console-centric company. Still, Midway's often been a decent developer... maybe they can make it better.

A new Tom Hall-led Gauntlet game? That'd be awesome!