#Unreal Engine

Microsoft has laid off the entire idTech engine team at id Software, which may indicate a strategic shift away from the in-house idTech engine toward using Unreal Engine 5. This move could accelerate industry consolidation around Unreal Engine, reducing engine diversity and potentially impacting the unique technical identity of id Software games. The layoffs affect the team responsible for idTech, a proprietary engine powering titles like Doom: The Dark Ages, and come amid broader Microsoft gaming layoffs; no official confirmation of the switch to Unreal Engine 5 has been provided.