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New ‘DOOM Eternal’ Video Focuses on Multiplayer Action
With DOOM Eternal‘s release creeping ever closer (next month, actually), Bethesda is keeping the hype going with a new video focusing on the game’s multiplayer component, courtesy of IGN.
The multiplayer aspect of 2016’s DOOM wasn’t the strongest, and so Bethesda and developer id have made it their mission to try and recapture the fun and frenetic gameplay of the classics with DOOM Eternal‘s Battlemode, which is a two on one affair between demons and an armed-to-the-teeth Doomslayer.
The video admittedly doesn’t show off a whole lot of new info, but it definitely does look like a heap of fun, which is what’s important. And yes, the obvious answer is there’s a difference in playstyle between the slayer and the demons.
DOOM Eternal launches March 20 on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.
Overshadowing the announcement of Ninja Theory’s third entry in the Hellblade series earlier this month were reports that the developer was facing possible closure by Microsoft, alongside South of Midnight developer Compulsion Games and Double Fine. Now according to a new story by GamesBeat, another developer under the Xbox Game Studios umbrella is potentially facing closure in Undead Labs, who are currently working on State of Decay 3.
Earlier this month, new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma had announced that Microsoft was in the process of ‘resetting’ Xbox. That resulted in a report by Bloomberg during Summer Game Fest that revealed that multiple developers were negotiating with Microsoft to spin off of Xbox to avoid closing down. Now, according to the GamesBeat report, Undead Labs is now part of that group of developers negotiating to be bought to avoid layoffs.
The article states that Undead Labs could lose 110 jobs if it were shut down, while Compulsion could lose 90 jobs, Ninja Theory could lose 135 jobs, and Double Fine Productions could lose 100 jobs.
Other developers and publishers at Microsoft also reportedly face cuts, including Blizzard, id Software and Bethesda.
Undead Labs was acquired by Microsoft back in 2018, with State of Decay 3 being announced in 2020. News on the development of the game was quiet until 2024, when a new trailer was released. Updates on the game again were hard to come by until last January when then-Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan revealed that development was still very much alive. That was followed up this month with an official announcement that State of Decay 3 would be coming next year to PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store.