Doom dev id Software loses half its staff and all its coders in Xbox bloodbath

Is id Software doomed? (Bethesda)

The full impact of the recent Xbox layoffs is proving to be more devastating than expected, as roughly half of Doom developer id Software is said to be gone.

While no studios were shut down as part of Xbox’s latest round of layoffs, roughly 3,200 people have lost their jobs, meaning the company has let go over 9,000 employees in just the last few years.

There are several reasons for why this is so upsetting, beyond the obvious, one of them being that many of these people will never work in video games again and will take a...