Doom: The Dark Ages was one of many stars of Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2025 showcase, with affirmation of a launch date, new gameplay footage, and lots extra.
First up, the discharge date. Doom: The Dark Ages launches Could 15, 2025 throughout Xbox Sequence X and S, PlayStation 5, and PC. As a Microsoft-owned sport, Doom: The Dark Ages launches day one on Sport Cross. The Collector’s Bundle consists of as much as two days of early entry.
There isn’t any point out of a launch on the just-announced Nintendo Swap 2, though Microsoft is reportedly bringing lots of its video games to the next-gen console as soon as it comes out later in 2025.
We even have affirmation that Doom: The Dark Ages is single-player marketing campaign solely. Each 2016’s Doom and its sequel, 2020’s Doom Everlasting, had on-line multiplayer. So why the change for Doom: The Dark Ages?
Chatting with press forward of the announcement, govt producer Marty Stratton and sport director Hugo Martin defined that the choice to go single-player solely was made early so id Software program might focus totally on the marketing campaign.
“We made that call early in order that we might actually simply go all in on the marketing campaign,” Stratton stated. “It is our largest, most expansive, most epic marketing campaign ever and we’re simply actually pleased with the choice and I believe it has been superior to have the crew targeted simply on sprucing and ending the marketing campaign.”
Martin added that due to the choice to ditch multiplayer, id Software program was in a position to embody options within the marketing campaign that it wouldn’t have been in a position to in any other case. These embody sections the place you experience a fire-breathing dragon and pilot 30-story excessive Atlan mechs.
“That is why we had been in a position to put the dragon and the Atlan in,” Martin stated. “I imply, these are issues we have needed to do within the sport for a number of video games now, however could not as a result of we had a multiplayer part which we cherished, however actually it was meant to only give attention to the one participant marketing campaign and simply degree up that have for gamers.”
IGN has lots extra on Doom: The Dark Ages, together with affirmation of the sport’s composer. For extra, this is the whole lot introduced throughout Microsoft’s Xbox Developer Direct 2025.
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