Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed during Xbox’s 25th anniversary celebration that id Software is already working on its next game, the first official word from the company since mass layoffs cut the studio over the summer.
“Few studios have shaped the first-person shooter genre as much as @idSoftware. Slaughter Mode comes to DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations on Monday, and the team is already working on its next game,” Sharma said in a post on X on November 12.
A leaner team keeps the franchise
id Software confirmed the project is being developed by its teams in Texas and Frankfurt, with Hugo Martin directing. Martin has directed all three modern Doom games and wrote the past two, so the pick signals continuity for the studio’s current formula. Sharma’s post only says “its next game,” so whether it is another Doom entry has not been announced.
The confirmation lands months after Microsoft’s summer downsizing hit id Software. Xbox announced the layoffs on July 9, two days after the Revelations expansion for DOOM: The Dark Ages launched, and the studio said afterward that its team had been reduced to roughly the same size as when it made 2016’s Doom. In a statement at the time, the studio also said it planned to continue with QuakeCon in August, and id later said it was working with MachineGames more closely than ever.
Many of the developers Xbox cut regrouped as a new studio, Hidden Horses, which has a Kickstarter coming for its first game, Danger Pay, a single-player first-person shooter about a deadly game show influenced by Smash TV and The Running Man.
Slaughter Mode arrives November 16
While the next game stays unannounced, players get something concrete sooner. The free Slaughter Mode update for DOOM: The Dark Ages | Revelations arrives Monday, November 16, adding 19 arenas from the base game and its expansion with randomized roguelike-style runs. Completing challenges and weekly rewards earns cosmetics including skins, backgrounds, soundtracks and profile frames, and checkpoints let players raise the difficulty for bigger rewards at the risk of losing all progress on a failed run. Bethesda showed the mode off in an official trailer.
DOOM: The Dark Ages launched in May 2025. Slaughter Mode lands on November 16, 2026.
