Despite a rocky 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma officially reveals that id Software, known for mega FPS franchises like Doom and Quake, is hard at work on the studio's next big game. The news comes as a bright spot for the studio and the Xbox brand as a whole, which has certainly experienced plenty of turmoil and disappointing news so far in 2026.
Two days after the launch of the Revelations expansion for Doom: The Dark Ages, Xbox announced another round of mass layoffs, which included id Software. While not impacted quite as hard as other areas of the Xbox ecosystem, like Halo Studios, id Software's layoffs concerned fans, with some saying that the studio was in trouble. In fact, an official statement was put out to reassure concerned fans that the company was still as big as it was when it released Doom back in 2016 and planned to continue with QuakeCon later in August. Thankfully, the message was true, as id Software is now hard at work on new content for Doom: The Dark Ages and a brand-new game entirely.
No matter how much time passes, these id Software FPS games will always be on another level...
