LarsDu88 · 2 days ago

Scott Miller (founder of Apogee/3dRealms) stated that id Software and most of programmers (the team behind idTech and Doom: The Dark Ages) will be let go.

Basically one of the last cutting edge engines not built/maintained by Epic Games (Unreal Engine) will basically die.

benoau · 2 days ago

What a sad company, Apogee made some of the best games when I was a child, and of course id software's contribution to gaming is immense.

uberman · 2 days ago

Are they essentially destroying xbox in order to reduce the on paper value in order to sell it? With all the cuts they can save face as a result of the low price they will accept?

etempleton · 2 days ago

What a terrible long-term decision. You have a team with incredible talent that ships that you could move to something other than Doom if you wanted, but instead you are laying them off.

ChrisArchitect · 2 days ago

Related:

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2026/07/06/the-latest-in-ou... (Earliest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804401)

Resetting Xbox

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/06/resetting-xbox/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804993)

rasz · 2 days ago

step 1: Hey, this gaming company just released a game that made $300mil. With us at the helm we could extract $500 from such game, and release one per year. Lets buy it for couple $B, after all it will pay for itself within 10 years easy.

step 2: Weird, under our glorious leadership we cant ship a game faster than 3 years and they make even less money. Lets close this mess and write it down.

krige · 2 days ago

Release a single player game day 1 on freaking gamepass, and then wonder why the sales numbers aren't happening. Galaxy brains over at MS are something special.

matt_eeee · 2 days ago

So that's it for id Tech? If so what a sad ending to a legacy going back to the early 90s.

I don't understand why they stopped licensing their technology to other companies? Seems it was a big part of id's business back in the 90s and 2000s.