id Software is working on a new game. The Doom studio said on 12 November that staff in its Texas and Frankfurt offices are on it, with Hugo Martin back as director.
The confirmation came during Xbox’s 25th-anniversary event. Xbox CEO Asha Sharma first mentioned it in a post about Doom, saying the studio is already working on its next game, and id followed with its own message moments later.
In that post, id called it “a new game from our teams in Texas and Frankfurt” and said it will be “some time before we’re ready to share more”. The studio did not say whether it is another Doom, a return to Quake or a new series, and it gave no platforms or release window.
The two posts went up about two minutes apart, shortly before 01:00 on 13 November Pakistan time, and Sharma’s came with a short video about the studio. Neither one says how large the team on the new game is or when work started.
The words “once again” in id’s message signal continuity: the person who set the direction on the studio’s earlier games is staying on for whatever comes next. For readers who want to know what the studio is working on right now, the answer for the time being is only that the project exists.
There is still something to play in the meantime. Sharma’s post says Slaughter Mode arrives in DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations on Monday 16 November, and Xbox Wire has a page for that update.
