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During a Slayers Club Live livestream, id Software said the Revelations expansion for DOOM: The Dark Ages is getting an endless Slaughter Mode in November. Game director Hugo Martin joined the stream, though the studio has not announced an exact release date. -
An anonymous current id Software employee says Xbox's internal messaging has been reduced to corporate jargon, with no clear vision for what comes next. The employee told Aftermath that management's messages have not eased concerns among developers.
The employee said the only concrete message from Xbox management was that it wanted higher profits immediately. They also said the company was setting targets so aggressive that they would have been unrealistic even before the layoffs. -
id Software announced that Quake Champions is now a $10 Steam-exclusive release, with the Microsoft Store version retired and the game no longer supported as a free-to-play service. The shooter is available only through Steam.
Players who launched the free version before September 23, 2026, can keep accessing Quake Champions from their Steam library at no additional cost. Bethesda also says those players will keep their stats, progression, and ranking after the update. -
In 1996, id Software came up with a way to sell games without the internet — and came up with it a little too well. The Quake shareware disc sat on regular store shelves for around ten dollars, but the game itself only took up 22 of the disc's 640 available megabytes. The studio filled the rest with encrypted copies of its entire catalog: buyers had to call a hotline, pay for whichever game they wanted over the phone, get a code, and unlock it right from that same disc. It was essentially an offline storefront, years before proper digital distribution existed. The setup lasted exactly 39 days. -
Chris Hays, lead services programmer at id Software, sharply criticized Xbox and said that after the recent layoffs, making AAA games on the level of the studio's past projects has become essentially impossible. According to him, leadership was handed pre-written talking points from Xbox about what could and couldn't be said, and Hays himself believes the corporation understands neither video games nor art. -
To celebrate the franchise's 30th anniversary, id Software and MachineGames have rolled out a massive, free "Dawn of the Machine" update for the iconic first-person shooter Quake. This brutal new episode expands upon the developer's previous work on Dimension of the Machine and Dimension of the Past. -
Mick Gordon will finally bring DOOM music to the stage next year, headlining Radar Festival in the UK with a full band, a symphonic orchestra, and his Doom Machine. The set is expected to include Rip & Tear, BFG Division, and The Only Thing They Fear Is You, drawn from DOOM Eternal. -
Steve McCrea says his Commodore 64 project recreates Doom with ray casting rather than true 3D, and by July 29, 2026 it looks playable on the 8-bit machine. The result is not a classic port: McCrea says it is technically not 3D, and instead uses a tile grid to capture the feel of the original. -
The latest Xbox layoffs at id Software have turned into a debate over how large the Doom (2016) team still was, after Hugo Martin said the studio had not been reduced to 50 people and that id Tech was "very much alive and well." -
Hugo Martin, creative director of DOOM: The Dark Ages, pushed back on rumors that id Software had been gutted, saying the studio is still intact and that what matters most is that the games are good. He made the comments during a Slayers Club Live livestream focused on DOOM: The Dark Ages — Revelations DLC. -
For the 1986-1995 slot in The Washington Post's list of America's 25 most influential works, id Software's Doom stands in for the rise of video games as a cultural force. The paper described the 1993 shooter as that decade's cultural symbol. -
Following the July layoffs at Xbox, employees from Bethesda, ZeniMax Online Studios, and id Software have reportedly voiced growing concerns about job security within Microsoft. According to multiple sources, the latest wave of cuts reinforced a belief that even strong performance and successful game releases no longer guarantee stability, leaving many developers feeling vulnerable about their future. -
id Software is pushing back on rumors about its post-layoff staffing, saying the studio still has the people it needs to keep making the games and technology it's known for. In a statement posted on X, the studio said the changes were spread across teams and that its development capacity remains intact. -
John Carmack says his old defense of Microsoft has "not aged well" after the latest massive layoffs at id Software, the studio he co-founded in 1991. Microsoft is cutting 136 roles at the Doom studio, and reports say the reductions remove more than half of its headcount. -
A source familiar with Xbox's plans said Microsoft still intends to use id Tech in future projects, even after major layoffs at id Software. The report adds that the latest version of the engine, id Tech 8, remains part of that long-term strategy. -
John Romero, co-founder of id Software and creator of DOOM, has publicly expressed sympathy for the employees affected by the studio's recent layoffs, which reportedly eliminated around half of the team in July 2026. The cuts are part of a sweeping Xbox restructuring plan that will see 3,200 jobs eliminated by June 2027. -
Bethesda's key studios, id Software and ZeniMax Online Studios, have been struck by major layoffs as part of the largest restructuring in Xbox history. Microsoft announced plans to cut approximately 3,200 jobs — about 20% of its gaming division workforce — starting July 2026. The cuts have hit the teams behind major franchises like DOOM and The Elder Scrolls Online especially hard. -
DOOM: The Dark Ages — Revelations Expansion Promises 10-12 Hours of Gameplay and Metroidvania Elements
DOOM: The Dark Ages will receive its major story expansion, Revelations, on July 7, 2026, bringing one of the largest DLC experiences in the modern DOOM series with approximately 10-12 hours of gameplay. This expansion significantly surpasses the DLCs released for DOOM Eternal. -
Sandy Petersen, the legendary game designer behind classics like DOOM, Quake, and Age of Empires, has ignited a heated debate by publicly blaming game piracy for the downfall of several iconic studios. In a strongly worded statement, Petersen claimed that rampant piracy deprived developers of crucial funding and even altered the course of gaming history. -
DOOM: The Dark Ages, the latest entry in id Software's legendary shooter franchise, will receive a major visual upgrade exclusively on PlayStation 5 Pro when its PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution (PSSR) upscaling patch launches on July 7, 2026. Arriving alongside the Revelations expansion, this free update brings enhanced upscaling only to PS5 Pro users, leaving standard PS5 owners without access to the new visuals. id Software announced the news in an official statement.
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