DOOM (2016)

Id Software confirms layoffs reduced the team to its size 'when making DOOM (2016)'

Id Software thanked fans for their support, promised to look after those impacted, and stressed it would still be at QuakeCon 2026.

id Software Downplays Xbox’s Brutal Reset, Claiming Its Gutted Team Still Matches the Crew That Made DOOM 2016

Following the mass layoffs enacted by Xbox CEO Asha Sharma as part of her "big reset" of the division, Texan developer id Software repeatedly made headlines as evidence mounted that it may no longer be fully operational. A WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) file…

id Software Now Has “Roughly the Same” Number of Workers as When it Made DOOM (2016) – Rumor

A report has also noted that the team behind the studio's id Tech engine hasn't been completely stripped of its programmers.

Control Resonant is Longer Than the Original, Inspired by DOOM (2016) and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Director Mikael Kasurinen also claims that on a one-to-ten scale, the amount of Alan Wake 2 "stuff" is somewhere around "2.5."