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id Software Loses Half Its Staff, Including idTech Engineers, as Xbox’s ‘Big Reset’ Cleaves the Doom Studio

id Software Loses Half Its Staff, Including idTech Engineers, as Xbox’s ‘Big Reset’ Cleaves the Doom Studio

The same day id Software shipped Doom: The Dark Ages, Revelations DLC, roughly half the studio was laid off, including most of its coders and the legendary idTech engine team. The grim timing...

LoVeRSaMaJul 7, 2026
Double Fine Joins Microsoft's Growing Union Wave: What It Means for Xbox's Indie Studios

Double Fine Joins Microsoft's Growing Union Wave: What It Means for Xbox's Indie Studios

On May 7, 2026, the developers behind Psychonauts and Kiln did something no other Microsoft-acquired indie studio has done before: they filed to unionize. The petition, submitted to the National...

LoVeRSaMaMay 9, 2026