As a part of the Xbox’s twenty fifth anniversary celebration at Xbox Fanfest in Seattle at the moment, developer MachineGames and franchise creators id Software program confirmed what had lengthy been rumored: that Wolfenstein 3 is in improvement.
MachineGames will as soon as once more be growing it. Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus was launched to rave reviews in 2017, however MachineGames then put the sequence on maintain to develop 2024’s absolutely stellar Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle.
However now, Wolfenstein is again on the entrance burner on the Swedish studio. “Wolfenstein 3 is formally in manufacturing at Machine Video games,” Xbox CEO Asha Sharma confirmed on X. “One among gaming’s most vital franchises, and a staff that has completed exceptional work bringing it ahead. Wanting ahead to sharing extra.”
Wolfenstein 3 is formally in manufacturing at @MachineGames. One among gaming’s most vital franchises, and a staff that has completed exceptional work bringing it ahead. Wanting ahead to sharing extra. https://t.co/YyX8LrbTvh
— ASHA (@asha_shar) November 12, 2026
id Software program and MachineGames added on to Sharma’s publish, which exhibits a web page of the Wolfenstein 3 script, saying simply, “His repute precedes him,” referring to the motion described on the script web page. “Wolfenstein 3 is in manufacturing.” The builders additionally confirmed that actors Brian Bloom (as B.J. Blazkowicz) and Debra Wilson (as Grace Walker) will return through a photograph of the pair within the developer’s motion-capture studio.
Wolfenstein 3 should not come as a lot of a shock. Final yr, in an interview with Noclip, MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafsson stated the staff had “all the time seen [BJ’s story] as a trilogy,” including: “That journey for BJ, even throughout these first weeks at [id Software], after we mapped out New Order — we nonetheless had the plan for a minimum of [BJ], what would occur in the second and what would occur within the third one.
“I feel that is vital to say, as a result of — a minimum of, I hope — we’re not completed with Wolfenstein but. We’ve got a narrative to inform.”
That is not all that Wolfenstein followers must look ahead to, because the pioneering first-person shooter sequence can also be being developed into a TV series at Amazon. Xbox’s official twenty fifth anniversary is that this Sunday, November 15, whereas id Software program celebrates its thirty fifth anniversary this yr.
Ryan McCaffrey is IGN’s govt editor of previews and host of IGN’s weekly Xbox present, Podcast Unlocked, and a co-host of Next-Gen Console Watch. He is a North Jersey man, so it is “Taylor ham,” not “pork roll.” Debate it with him on Twitter at @DMC_Ryan.