{"id":92972,"date":"2026-11-12T16:07:28","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92972"},"modified":"2026-11-12T16:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T21:42:49","slug":"new-doom-game-seemingly-announced-in-the-weirdest-way-after-half-the-studio-was-laid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92972","title":{"rendered":"New Doom Game Seemingly Announced In The Weirdest Way After Half The Studio Was Laid Off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2120969774062817747\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/asha_shar\/status\/2120969774062817747\">announced<\/a> that id Software is officially working on a new game, believed to be another Doom title. This is happening after Sharma oversaw id Software <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/doom-dev-says-were-doing-great-after-half-the-studio-was-just-laid-off\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/doom-dev-says-were-doing-great-after-half-the-studio-was-just-laid-off\/\">losing half of its staff <\/a>to layoffs that were part of the Xbox &#8220;reset.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Id Software <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/idSoftware\/status\/2120970306227495319\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/idSoftware\/status\/2120970306227495319\">replied to Sharma&#8217;s post on Twitter<\/a> to provide a few more details on the new game, which the team didn&#8217;t say was a Doom game, but everyone suspects it will be. The studio said it&#8217;s &#8220;incredibly excited&#8221; about the new game, which is in the works at id&#8217;s studios in Texas and Frankfurt. Hugo Martin, an id Software veteran, is directing the game&#8211;don&#8217;t expect to see or hear about it soon, though.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;ll be some time before we&#8217;re ready to share more but we can&#8217;t wait for you to see what we&#8217;re working on,&#8221; the developer said.<\/p>\n<figure data-wp-interactive=\"core\/image\" class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-ref-id=\"1957761\" data-wp-on--click=\"actions.core.image.showLightbox\" style=\"cursor: zoom-in\" height=\"576\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/DoomGame_809f5f.jpg?w=636\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1957761\" \/>A scene from Doom: The Dark Ages. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporter Tom Warren <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomwarren\/status\/2120972105265410236\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tomwarren\/status\/2120972105265410236\">said in July<\/a> that id Software was in the &#8220;early stages&#8221; of developing a new Doom game, so this news today isn&#8217;t totally surprising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sharma cut staff at id Software (and numerous other Xbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has announced that id Software is officially working on a new game, believed to be another Doom title. This is happening after Sharma oversaw id Software losing half of its staff to layoffs that were part of the Xbox &#8220;reset.&#8221; Id Software replied to Sharma&#8217;s post on Twitter to provide a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":92974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92972","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\/92972"}],"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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92975,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92972\/revisions\/92975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}