id Software Was Reportedly 'Toying With' Pitches for a New Perfect Dark, a John Wick-Inspired Game, and More Before Layoffs

id Software Was Reportedly 'Toying With' Pitches for a New Perfect Dark, a John Wick-Inspired Game, and More Before Layoffs

id's future remains unclear.

Updated : Jul 9, 2026 12:08am UTC

id Software was reportedly toying with a bunch of ideas for future game projects when Microsoft laid off more than half of the studio.

According to a new report from GamesBeat , 92 of 185 full-time employees were laid off from id Software. This has put a number of projects in question. The report notes that the studio was working on a bunch of projects, and sources aren't sure how they can move forward on them with such a small team.

“I’m not convinced there is a viable way forward,” said one laid-off worker when speaking with GamesBeat. “It feels like a bunch of knee-jerk responses.”

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id Software just finished its work on the new Doom: The Dark Ages DLC, known as Revelations, and was looking at what its next full-scale project would be. One was a co-op/multiplayer Doom game that would've brought back weaponry from previous Doom games. Another was a new Perfect Dark game, since the property became available last year in the wake of Xbox's shutdown of developer The Initiative and cancellation of its Perfect Dark reboot .

There were also concepts for a new game codenamed Fury. id Software apparently saw this as a way to stretch its legs beyond Doom, and envisioned it as a John Wick-inspired, noir sci-fi game with "Chicago and Louisiana gangsters." Like John Wick, it would've combined martial arts with gunplay. The hope was to make it for Project Helix, the next-gen Xbox.

One other project that was being kicked around was a Westworld-inspired survival game, but not much else is known about it. It's unclear if any of these projects will move forward, or if id Software will just become a support studio, assisting on games like The Elder Scrolls 6, Wolfenstein 3, Marvel's Blade, or other projects within Xbox.