\u201cMost, if not all,\u201d of Id Software\u2019s coders, 60-70 Obsidian developers, and more veteran developers have reportedly been laid off from Microsoft as the scale of this week\u2019s big Xbox cuts becomes clearer.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Microsoft announced a restructuring that will result in thousands of people losing their jobs. <\/a>While initial headlines were focused on the sale of Undead Labs<\/a> and Ninja Theory<\/a>, and Double Fine<\/a> and Compulsion Games<\/a> regaining independence, the scale of Xbox<\/a>\u2018s significant wave of job losses is still taking shape.<\/p>\n According to Kotaku<\/a>, around 60-70 developers were fired from Obsidian, which included \u201cproducers, artists, designers, programmers, QA testers, and writers.\u201d<\/p>\n The Outer Worlds<\/a> art director Daniel Alpert<\/a>, who served at the studio for over two decades, took to LinkedIn<\/a> to confirm he\u2019s part of the cuts.<\/p>\n \u201cThis morning, after 21 years at Obsidian Entertainment<\/a>, my journey with the studio came to an end,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n \u201cWhile this wasn\u2019t the outcome I hoped for, I can\u2019t help but feel incredibly grateful for the time I spent there. Obsidian wasn\u2019t just a workplace, it was where I built a career, formed lasting friendships, and had the opportunity to work alongside some of the most talented and passionate people in the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n A. K. Fedeau, a narrative designer at the studio, also confirmed they had been affected. \u201cI\u2019m very sorry to announce that I was one of the devs affected by the Obsidian layoffs today,\u201d they wrote on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cBeing able to write for the studio whose work pulled me out of a dark place with my writing and reminded me of why I loved it was a beautiful dream. It took me places I\u2019d never imagined, and some I had, in the small, ambitious way a child watches credits roll and swears to someday be up there.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2018Most, if not all, Id Software<\/a> coders cut\u2019<\/p>\n Elsewhere, it\u2019s been claimed by 3D Realms Founder Scott Miller that \u201cmost, if not all,\u201d of Id Software\u2019s coders have been let go.<\/p>\n This claim comes as Microsoft<\/a> plans to restructure Bethesda<\/a> around the studio\u2019s \u201cstrongest franchises.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n This post was about the insider news I got this morning that a majority of Id’s studio is being laid off, including most (if not all) coders. https:\/\/t.co\/OcPrLgvYBG<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Scott Miller – Apogee\/3D Realms Founder \u2622\ufe0f (@ScottApogee) July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n According to Bloomberg<\/a>, Bethesda plans to focus on its biggest franchises: Fallout, The Elder Scrolls, Doom, Quake, and Wolfenstein.<\/p>\n Jeff Gardiner, a former project lead at Bethesda Game Studios, took to social media to claim that he\u2019d heard 95 developers had lost their jobs at Id.<\/p>\n Just heard 95 at id.<\/p>\n \u2014 Jeff Gardiner \ud83c\udfae (@jg93) July 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n This week, Bethesda and Id Software will release Doom: The Dark Ages<\/a> \u2013 Revelations, an expansion to 2025\u2019s Doom: The Dark Ages.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cMost, if not all,\u201d of Id Software\u2019s coders, 60-70 Obsidian developers, and more veteran developers have reportedly been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":678471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-678470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}