After viewing an updated Gamecock release schedule, Ion Storm founder and Doom co-creator John Romero had some interesting things to say about the publisher. Since its inception early last year, Gamecock has promoted an indie label spirit and has positioned itself as an "artist driven" company that fosters creativity and "favors the most innovative and original video game developers in the industry."

Romero apparently doesn't see it that way. Romero and Gamecock head Mike Wilson have a history together. Wilson was Ion Storm's CEO and he crafted the infamous "John Romero's About to Make You His Bitch" advertisement. Romero doesn't believe Wilson has changed much since then.

He wrote on his blog, "Once again, just like with Godgames, Wilson is taking all the credit away from the indie devs and pasting his asinine logo everywhere. ... People are now starting to get a clue about how Mr. Wilson operates. Hey everyone, he hasn't changed in over 10 years - these are the kinds of jackass stunts he pulled at Ion Storm with Daikatana. Remember the bitch ad? Yeah. He also ran ads ("image ads") that just had pictures of Ion Storm founders, himself and our COO. That was just the beginning of his madness.

Romero continued his lambasting of Wilson: "It got much worse at Godgames where he pretty much just partied all the time and after the whole thing got reined in by Take 2 he went underground for a while, waiting for his next victim/investor so he could go hogwild all over again. And thus was born Gamecock."

Gamecock's latest stunt was to interrupt 2K Boston's Ken Levine at the SpikeTV Awards when he was about to make an acceptance speech for his BioShock award. Gamecock has since apologized. You can read more about Wilson's "cocky" marketing in our Ad Watch column.

We've contacted Gamecock for comment. We'll let you know what we hear.

Thanks to Kotaku.