The people of Redmond must do everything, literally everything, to regain the trust of gamers, because after three Bethesda studios were shut down by Microsoft, they don't look kindly on the company.
On Twitter, Tom Warren, editor of The Verge, hinted, with an incomprehensible phrase in Hungarian, that the company is also preparing to make an announcement regarding id Software's legendary IP. This can also be supported by what Microsoft has quietly done in the US with ZeniMax, one of the publishers it has acquired.
And at the US Trademark Office, USPTO, he registered a name: IDKFA. Anyone who spent a lot of time with DOOM at the time already knows what we mean. This was one of id Software's FPS cheats that many people still know about today. The other would be IDDQD (which also became known in Hungary in blog form). Could this be a subtitle for the upcoming story after DOOM Eternal? Or something completely different? We cannot answer this at this time.
“Microsoft will be banking on some new game announcements to raise DOOM around Xbox.” https://t.co/064MLz8aWq
– Tom Warren (@tomwarren) May 12, 2024
A leaked timeline also surfaced this year, which isn't exact in terms of years, but did reveal some interesting things: a remaster of Fallout 3 (if the IP is actually popular due to the series running on Amazon, that's believable), a sequel to Ghostwire Tokyo (Tango Gameworks has closed, but not much of a chance), Dishonored 3 (as has Arkane Austin; Arkane Lyon said a couple of years ago that he was resting the IP…), and the remastered version of The Elder Scrolls IV : Oblivion (Todd Howard's knowledge, who knows?) and Doom Year Zero. Will the id program work on a prior version? Zero year…?
So a new DOOM is coming, and IDKFA might be the name of the DLC, because if Microsoft releases the game with that title, a lot of people will miss the trademark in the name, because a lot of people recognize it even with their normal eyes. So we are waiting for Microsoft's announcement. Now they have to beat the horses…
source: Clawsomegamer, United States Patent and Trademark Office
