Doom: The Dark Ages release date leaked ahead of Xbox event

The sequel to Doom Eternal is lone a fewer months distant according to a caller leak, arsenic Xbox gears up for its archetypal Developer Direct of 2025.

Beyond the imminent Avowed, Microsoft’s existent slate is afloat of alternatively vague merchandise windows, and it’s inactive unclear whether Fable oregon Perfect Dark volition really motorboat this year.

One crippled that volition beryllium making it retired sooner alternatively than aboriginal though is Doom: The Dark Ages, which is acceptable to header Xbox’s Developer Direct presumption connected Thursday, January 23 astatine 6pm GMT.

While Doom: The Dark Ages presently has a wide 2025 merchandise window, the nonstop merchandise day seems to person been leaked by a French games website.

According to a now-pulled nonfiction connected Gamekult, which has circulated connected ResetEra, developer id Software’s shooter volition motorboat connected May 15, 2025. The nonfiction besides specifically states that this day volition beryllium revealed during Microsoft’s Developer Direct.

Gamekult is simply a long-running video crippled website which was primitively founded successful 2000, truthful it’s imaginable they were fixed a heads-up connected the day and published it aboriginal by mistake.

Doom: The Dark Ages is simply a sequel to Doom Eternal but it’s a prequel to 2016’s Doom reboot and follows bid protagonist, the Doom Slayer, arsenic helium takes connected the forces of Hell successful a medieval setting. Along with Xbox and PC, the crippled is besides acceptable to travel retired connected PlayStation 5.

We’ll find retired much astir the prequel astatine tomorrow’s Xbox Developer Direct, alongside different titles South Of Midnight and Clair Obscura: Expedition 33. A enigma crippled is besides acceptable to beryllium shown, with rumours suggesting it could beryllium thing from a caller Ecco The Dolphin to Ninja Gaiden 4.

There’s a accidental Xbox mightiness person much to amusement beyond these titles though. According to Insider Gaming, determination volition beryllium ‘a fewer different surprises’ announced astatine the lawsuit beyond these 4 confirmed games, which mightiness connect to reports of Halo: The Master Chief Collection, Gears Of War, and Hellblade 2 going multiplatform.

It volition surely beryllium absorbing to spot if Microsoft makes immoderate notation to the Nintendo Switch 2, which they’ve implied they’re keen to support.

At past year’s Xbox Developer Direct, the institution debuted caller looks astatine Avowed, Hellblade 2, Ara: History Untold, and Indiana Jones And The Great Circle. It besides featured Square Enix’s Visions Of Mana, which marked the archetypal clip a crippled from a 3rd enactment developer was showcased astatine 1 of the presentations.

While it mightiness not look astatine the Xbox Developer Direct, a remake of The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is besides strongly rumoured for 2025.

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