Thirty years after helping invent the modern first-person shooter, John Romero will stand before an expanding Southeast Asian gaming industry in Bangkok this October and ask a question the entire field is quietly wrestling with: why do we keep making games when the ground beneath us keeps moving? His keynote at Gamescom Asia x Thailand Game Show arrives not as a victory lap but as a reckoning — his own studio recently lost funding to the same corporate forces that just reshaped the studio he helped found. In an industry prone to amnesia, Romero represents something rarer than innovation: hard-
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