With Xbox spending the week celebrating their 25th anniversary, CEO Asha Sharma has spent most of Thursday revealing bits of history, along with what’s to come in the future. One of those announcements was the confirmation that Wolfenstein 3 is officially in development and that MachineGames is at the helm once again.
The details are scarce, it was a simple post confirming the game exists alongside a picture that is seemingly the opening cutscenes dialogue, but the fact that it exists is enough for Wolfenstein fans like myself to get excited for the future.
It will be interesting to see if Wolfenstein 3 is the next game from MachineGames or if something else is further along in development that will be out first. MachineGames most recent game was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle which released in December 2024. A major expansion, The Order Of Giants was released in September 2025 and both the game and expansion were critical successes.
We know more Indiana Jones games are in development as well, so what comes first and when remains to be seen. Will they split their teams to work on multiple projects at once? We shall see.
We haven’t seen a Wolfenstein game since before Bethesda and MachineGames was purchased by Microsoft back in 2020. Wolfenstein: Youngblood, a spin-off of the mainline Wolfenstein games released July 25th 2019 and was not received as well as the main games. It should be noted that Youngblood was not fully developed by MachineGames as it was a joint effort with Arkane Lyon.
With the return of B. J. Blazkowicz confirmed, it’s only a matter of time before we are slaying Nazi’s.
