Doom devs id Software were reportedly kicking around ideas for a new Perfect Dark, a John Wick-inspired game, and multiplayer demonslaying prior to layoffs

It's present unclear if immoderate of these volition ever marque it into production

When Microsoft's wide layoffs gutted Doom developers id Software earlier this week, the workplace were reportedly kicking astir a fig of ideas for games they could enactment connected aft finishing Doom: The Dark Ages' Revelations DLC. Among these pitches, it's claimed, were the likes of a caller Perfect Dark crippled and an archetypal weapon fu crippled inspired by John Wick.

That's according to a caller study from Gamesbeat, which delves into the behind-the-scenes devastation which has travel with id losing a full of 136 workers arsenic portion of Microsoft's cuts this week.

The study claims that, with the Revelations DLC relasing connected July 7th, id were considering pitches for their adjacent crippled erstwhile the axe fell. One was a caller Perfect Dark entry, with nary different Microsoft studios moving connected the bid pursuing the corp's determination to shutter The Initiative past year. Concept creation for that crippled was said to beryllium successful the works.

Another enactment was the John Wick-inspired game, codenamed Fury. This 1 was reportedly the brainchild of Doom: The Dark Ages manager Hugo Martin, and would person blended gunplay with martial arts successful a sci-fi noir-ish satellite featuring gangsters from Chicago and Louisiana. According to Gamesbeat, it hadn't been greenlit arsenic of the cuts. Ironwood, which sounds similar it'd person been a chaotic westbound robot endurance crippled with Westworldy vibes, was different transportation reportedly floating around.

Finally, connected the Doom front, multiplayer Doom, co-op Doom and much Doom DLCs were reportedly connected the table, perchance bringing backmost immoderate beloved armaments from erstwhile modern entries. For what it's worth, a study from Bloomberg earlier this week claimed the cuts weren't a decease knell for Doom, Quake and Wolfenstein arsenic crippled series.

Gamesbeat enactment that it's unclear if id person capable radical near to beryllium capable to marque immoderate of these games pursuing the layoffs, oregon if they'll simply beryllium a enactment studio. "I’m not convinced determination is simply a viable mode forward," 1 laid-off id idiosyncratic told the site. "It feels similar a clump of knee-jerk responses."

One Xbox-owned workplace that reportedly person been fixed a aboriginal absorption already are Avowed developers Obsidian, who've been enactment backmost to enactment connected Fallout.