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id Software Downplays Xbox’s Brutal Reset, Claiming Its Gutted Team Still Matches the Crew That Made DOOM 2016

A character in DOOM: Eternal fighting demons in a fiery landscape, with a prominent white 'id Software' logo partially covering the scene.

Following the mass layoffs enacted by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma as part of her “big reset” of the division, Texan developer id Software repeatedly made headlines as evidence mounted that it may no longer be fully operational. A WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) filed in Texas revealed that 136 of around 185 employees had been laid off, raising serious concerns that the studio would become a support developer for other teams (specifically MachineGames, which has already taken charge of the Wolfenstein IP). Yesterday, a Kotaku report suggested that the idTech team had only one engineer left, which suggested the possibility of […]

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