Nice! :)
I like to see his new shooter.

And i was expecting Daikatana 2 . :( :p

Pretty cool, and a good marketing to warm us up for the reboot.

I knew I could count on someone here to come up with something funny :-D

Oh come on, why do all these news posts insist you need ZDoom. You fucking don't.

Not sure. I did not mark it as a problem and created a thread in the same manner as always. The only thing I can figure out is some auto-thing on the forum when I entered the first sentence as a question? o___O

Weird.

So does the fact that he released the level imply greater things are ahead?

Does Mac supports Drag and Drop? You can try that.

If you want to play through the game and get to Romero's level naturally, select "New Game," and then the "Knee Deep in the Dead" episode from the next menu. You'll have to get through the first seven, original Doom levels before you reach Romero's new creation.

Alternatively, you can cheat. Start up a new game as normal and, once you have control of your character, type the following: idclev18. (Not the period.) That will instantly warp you to level eight. If you cheat your way there, you might also want to type in "idfa" (not the quotes) to give yourself a bunch of weapons. And if you really want to cheat, type "iddqd" to activate "god mode" and render yourself invulnerable to damage.

Drag-and-drop doesn't seem to work, I still get the original e1m8. I've been using the idclev18 cheat you mentioned to jump there quickly (and idkfa for the guns) :).

Fantastic level, glad to see he hasn't lost his touch over the years.

I think I heard that this is supposedly just a "warm up" for something bigger. I know he's hinted at the possibility of a new FPS over the last year or so (which would be amazing). Or maybe he just means that he's going to get back into Doom level creation. I know in old interviews he's stated that he wanted to start making levels again, but was afraid everyone would just pick them apart.

I actually think it's really sad that people immediately bring up Daikatana whenever he's mentioned, since it was one solitary (albeit very public) miss after a long string of hits. Previous to that everything he touched turned to gold (and it's worth noting that the quality of Id's singleplayer games dropped significantly the moment he left). I haven't tried out any of the small stuff he's worked on recently, but I'd be super happy if he decided to make another FPS. Or even if this just means he's going to start designing levels for Doom again. As long as he's planning something other than tiny mobile games finally :P

PC Gamer also has information:

http://www.pcgamer.com/john-romero-has-just-released-a-new-doom-wad/