John Romero's Slipgate Ironworks is currently working on a yet unannounced MMORPG, for a few years now, and parent company Gazillion Entertainment has made the decision to "we decided to change the format of our project at Slipgate Ironworks to better achieve this aim" in order to reach a broader audience. Gazillion further stated that "The game we'll launch will build on the efforts to date with a smaller core team," which apparently led to 50 employees getting the pink slip.