George Broussard and John Romero. Titans of another lifetime. This clip from a local newscast tries to get to the bottom of what all the kids were talking about in 1992, illustrating how neither could find that charming line between hubris and coy self-promotion.

But there’s more to this clip than just hindsight. There really is that jittery feeling of something big about to happen. The narrator’s gushing over “texture mapping” is barely half the story…

Doom co-creator John Romero removed negative posts about Gamecock head Mike Wilson from his blog earlier this week (January 22, 2008).

The latest move comes after the epic riposte Wilson delivered in response to the negative comments, which were posted by Romero last week. In an open letter to Kotaku, Wilson writes that Romero’s “unparalleled work ethic and strong character [have]…left only a bloody trail of ex-wives, fatherless kids, and ill advised breast implants strewn across this fair nation.”

The public debate was sparked by Romero’s take on the controversial Diakatana ads, which he claims were Wilson’s idea. The game, widely regarded as a commercial and artistic failure, is rendered inappropriately but also accurately here…