{"id":85605,"date":"2026-07-08T20:08:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85605"},"modified":"2026-07-08T22:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:36:39","slug":"id-software-was-reportedly-toying-with-pitches-for-a-new-perfect-dark-a-john-wick-inspired-game-and-more-before-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85605","title":{"rendered":"id Software Was Reportedly &#8216;Toying With&#8217; Pitches for a New Perfect Dark, a John Wick-Inspired Game, and More Before Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>id Software was reportedly toying with a bunch of ideas for future game projects when Microsoft laid off more than half of the studio.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/gamesbeat.com\/inside-a-studio-layoff-big-questions-for-microsofts-intentions-for-id-software\/\">GamesBeat<\/a>, 92 of 185 full-time employees were laid off from id Software. This has put a number of projects in question. The report notes that the studio was working on a bunch of projects, and sources aren&#8217;t sure how they can move forward on them with such a small team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not convinced there is a viable way forward,\u201d said one laid-off worker when speaking with GamesBeat. \u201cIt feels like a bunch of knee-jerk responses.\u201d<\/p>\n<section data-transform=\"slideshow\" data-slug=\"doom-the-dark-ages-revelations-reveal-trailer-xbox-games-showcase-2026-screenshots\" data-value=\"doom-the-dark-ages-revelations-reveal-trailer-xbox-games-showcase-2026-screenshots\" data-type=\"slug\" data-caption=\"\">\n<p>id Software just finished its work on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/doom-the-dark-ages-revelations-dlc-preview\">the new Doom: The Dark Ages DLC, known as Revelations,<\/a> and was looking at what its next full-scale project would be. One was a co-op\/multiplayer Doom game that would&#8217;ve brought back weaponry from previous Doom games. Another was a new Perfect Dark game, since the property became available last year in the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/perfect-dark-reboot-canceled-and-xbox-developer-the-initiative-closed-as-part-of-devastating-microsoft-layoffs\">Xbox&#8217;s shutdown of developer The Initiative and cancellation of its Perfect Dark reboot<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>There were also concepts for a new game codenamed Fury. id Software apparently saw this as a way<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>id Software was reportedly toying with a bunch of ideas for future game projects when Microsoft laid off more than half of the studio. According to a new report from GamesBeat, 92 of 185 full-time employees were laid off from id Software. This has put a number of projects in question. The report notes that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":85607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85609,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85605\/revisions\/85609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}