{"id":14950,"date":"2011-10-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"bethesda-squashes-doom-4-delay-rumour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/14950-bethesda-squashes-doom-4-delay-rumour","title":{"rendered":"Bethesda squashes Doom 4 delay rumour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just yesterday, we <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/14914-Rumour-control-DOOM-indefinitely-postponed.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming\">reported<\/a> the rumour that Bethesda was delaying Doom 4 indefinitely as a result of a shaky RAGE release.<\/p>\n<p>However, now that Tarryn has gotten you (and your toys) all riled up, allow me to talk you down from the ledge.<\/p>\n<p>Pete Hines, Bethesda&rsquo;s VP of PR and Marketing, has succinctly described the rumour as &ldquo;complete bollocks&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>After telling Eurogamer that Bethesda &ldquo;doesn&rsquo;t comment on rumour or speculation&rdquo;, they went on to do just that in replying to Eurogamer Operations Director Tom Bramwell&rsquo;s tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from assuring everyone that the rumour is &ldquo;bollocks&rdquo;, Hines went on to explain, &#8220;Re: Doom 4 rumour, games are done when they are done and no title under development at id has been postponed &#8211; indefinitely or otherwise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Looks like the toys can be kept inside the cot for a little longer, unless you&rsquo;d like to just fall back on the old RAGE standby and toss them at John Carmack anyway.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2011-10-21-bethesda-suspends-doom-4-rumour\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/19324-Bethesda-refutes-Doom-4-delay-rumour?\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Bethesda squashes Doom 4 delay rumour\"><strong>Bethesda squashes Doom 4 delay rumour<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;Complete bollocks,&quot; says Hines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":165,"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-14950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950","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\/165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}