Doom Director Says ‘We’re Doing Great’ After Half Of id Software Was Laid Off

Xbox’s summer reset hit a lot of storied game studios very hard. Among them was id Software, the long-running maker of the iconic Doom franchise. Roughly half the studio was canned just 24 hours before it launched its big expansion to Doom: The Dark Ages . Questions have swirled about the studio’s future and what it will still be capable of after deep cuts to important departments that scattered decades of combined institutional knowledge. According to studio co-director Marty Stratton, things are still going swimmingly .