Majority of id software to be laid off by Microsoft

LarsDu88

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

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

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

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

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

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.