Doom 4 Won’t Be Ready For “Formal Announcement” This Year

QuakeCon attendees got to see some Doom footage that was blocked from online streaming. Bethesda Softworks VP of PR and Marketing Pete Hines explained that this couldn’t be helped as the game is still not ready “formal announcement” yet.

“We’re working with [Id] to say, ‘How does this work? What do we want to show?’ And they’re like, ‘Look, we don’t want a stream to go up for a game that isn’t at the point where we would formally show it to the world, and now that thing is getting picked apart, and digested, and gone through frame-by-frame and getting nitpicked to death, when normally we wouldn’t be showing this to anybody at all,'” he said.

On the other hand, Hines needed to reassure fans that the game’s lengthy development hasn’t stagnated or gone haywire. As such, the QuakeCon footage was meant “to show something to [id Software fans] that gives them the confidence that it is still a viable studio that’s doing really cool stuff, that is making a game you want to play, and is treating Doom with the care and respect that you want.”

The upcoming Doom will be unveiled officially early in 2015. The game bares that stripped-down title because it is a reboot.