{"id":14914,"date":"2011-10-21T10:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T08:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"rumour-control-doom-4-indefinitely-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14914-rumour-control-doom-4-indefinitely-postponed","title":{"rendered":"Rumour control: DOOM 4 \u201cindefinitely postponed\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disclaimer right up front here then, just in case you missed the &ldquo;rumour&rdquo; flag in the headline &ndash; this is entirely unconfirmed for the moment.<\/p>\n<p>By all means, arrange your toys in strike deployment positions along the frontlines of your cot, but don&rsquo;t throw them just yet.<\/p>\n<p>So, according to one of <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5851953\/doom-4-indefinitely-postponed-following-rages-disappointing-launch\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Kotaku&rsquo;s industry moles\">Kotaku&rsquo;s industry moles<\/a>, a recent &ldquo;company-wide&rdquo; meeting over in Dallas, Bethesda and parent company ZeniMax Media have decided to &ldquo;indefinitely postpone&rdquo; development on DOOM 4.<\/p>\n<p>The decision allegedly comes in the wake of a somewhat disappointing launch for id&rsquo;s RAGE, which has seen mixed reviews and loads of technical issues, and led to a &ldquo;a serious lack of confidence in the project management at id&rdquo; by the publishers.<\/p>\n<p>Seems a bit topsy-turvy, though, doesn&rsquo;t it? I mean, why hold back a classic IP because a new IP bombed a bit? If anything, they should be hurrying it up so everybody can forget about RAGE.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19262-DOOM-4-&ldquo;indefinitely-postponed&rdquo;-rumour\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Rumour control: DOOM 4 &ldquo;indefinitely postponed&rdquo;\"><strong>Rumour control: DOOM 4 &ldquo;indefinitely postponed&rdquo;<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Underwhelming RAGE launch shows \u201c&quot;a serious lack of confidence in the project management at id&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}