Id Software Reportedly Had Ideas For Perfect Dark and a John Wick-Inspired Title Before Layoffs
Microsoft’s restructuring cut 136 id Software jobs, leaving its next-game plans uncertain after pitches for Fury, Perfect Dark and Doom were under review.
- Microsoft's restructuring of Xbox resulted in 136 layoffs at id Software earlier this week, reducing the studio from 185 employees to 49 and leaving it at support size.
- Id Software was toying with different game ideas when the layoffs occurred, having just released Doom: The Dark Ages last year and the Revelations expansion only this week.
- Potential projects included a John Wick-style original game called Fury and a new Perfect Dark title, though reports indicate "No one appears to be working on Quake."
- Former principal VFX artist Derek Best said, "I'm still in shock at how brutal the layoff cuts were," noting that decades of knowledge were wiped from the studio.
- With fewer than 50 people remaining, the studio's ability to make full-scale games has effectively vanished as Microsoft streamlines tool use and cuts external engine spending across Xbox.
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id Software Reportedly Had Ideas For Perfect Dark and a John Wick-Inspired Title Before Layoffs
During the layoffs at XBOX this week, id Software was hit hard, and reports say they had ideas for Perfect Dark and a game inspired by John Wick before the staff was cut. id Software was reportedly “toying with different game ideas” when Microsoft laid off over half of the studio. New reports from GamesBeat and Game Developer say that 136 full-time employees (40 were said to be remote) were laid off at id Software, and this has put some of the s…
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gamereactor.esId Software had plans for a new Perfect Dark
One of Microsoft's studios that has been hit particularly hard by this week's layoffs is Id Software. Up to a quarter of all employees are said to have been let go, and many now fear that this marks the end of the Id Tech game engine and their classic game series, such as {Doom}. Now that people have left the company, stories have begun to surface about what was actually going on behind the scenes at the renowned giant, which apparently include…
Report: id Software Pitched New Perfect Dark Before Xbox Layoffs
Amongst other ideas.id Software has been put through the ringer of late as layoffs continue to sweep through Xbox Game Studios, resulting in 3,200 job cuts. Half of the id Software team were let go just moments before shipping DOOM: The Dark Ages Revelations DLC. Not the pat on back they sorely deserved.According to a report from GamesBeat, the DLC wasn't the only thing id Software had up its sleeve. The studio is said to have had multiple proje…
Xbox layoffs have likely killed another Perfect Dark reboot from the hollowed-out id Software, as well as a John Wick-style gun fu game
The full scale of Xbox's rash of layoffs is still to be properly tallied up—partially because CEO Asha Sharma is yet to announce a further 1,600 axed roles. One particularly harsh casualty is id Software, which has taken around 136 job losses on the chin. A move that one employee described this week as reducing it to the size of a "support studio".We're just now learning about the projects that the developer, which had just released a large DLC …
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