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id Software opens new German game studio

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id Software, the maker of the Doom series, is opening a new game studio in Frankfurt, Germany, to create a new “best-in-class” first-person shooter game engine.

The move appears aimed at taking talent from Crytek, the Frankfurt-based creator of games such as Crysis as well as the CryEngine game engine.

id Software, owned by Bethesda Softworks, could be taking advantage of the weakness of Crytek in recent years. Cloud Imperium Games, the game company headed by Star Citizen creator Chris Roberts, has also set up a studio in Frankfurt.

 

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.