Indiana Jones dev working on multiple games but is it Wolfenstein 3 and Quake?

MachineGames’ latest financial report mentions plans for multiple projects and what might just be Wolfenstein 3.

It’s difficult to be enthusiastic about Xbox’s gaming prospects after another brutal wave of layoffs has seen hundreds of its employees out of work and several projects cancelled.

Some of Microsoft’s internal studios have escaped relatively unscathed, though. Case in point: MachineGames, the Swedish studio responsible for Indiana Jones And The Great Circle.

The lack of official information about the layoffs means there’s no telling how badly MachineGames was impacted, if it was at all, but a recent financials report from the studio suggests it has more than one game currently in development.

Spotted and shared by Timur222 on Bluesky, the report covers MachineGames’ 2024 fiscal year, which runs from January 2024 to December 2024, and by all accounts it seems to have been a successful one.

Net sales were higher than the year before, with MachineGames generating roughly 428 million SEK (about £33 million) compared to the approximately 350 million SEK in 2023.

As a result, the studio turned higher profits than both its 2023 and 2022 financial years, with a net profit of about 26 million SEK (about £2 million). You can view the results here and on the surface, they sound good – although who knows whether the higher-ups at Microsoft see it that way.

In an attached management report, MachineGames says: ‘With new exciting projects in development, MachineGames is optimistic about the future for both the company and the industry as a whole.’

You’ll note they say projects, in the plural, which would seem to mean at least two, even though there’s no official word on what any of them are – but there are plenty of theories.

The most likely is a Quake reboot, which MachineGames has been hinting about for years and even seemed to be teased during the marketing for The Great Circle.

Not only have MachineGames staff openly talked about wanting to reboot the Quake series, which was originally created by id Software, but they’ve already contributed new expansions to the remasters of Quake 1 and Quake 2.

There’s been less hints about another Wolfenstein game but the original plan was for a trilogy. However, the limited commerical success of Wolfenstein 2 seemed to put a stop to that – or at least delay it significantly.

Back in 2018, Pete Hines – the then vice president of PR and marketing, at publisher and owner Bethesda – confirmed a Wolfenstein 3 was on the table.

Hines retired from the company in 2023, but that doesn’t necessarily mean plans have changed and that same year MachineGames posted a new job listing for someone with a passion for ‘first person immersive games’ and a ‘strong familiarity with MachineGames’ titles.’

Considering the more recent success of the Indiana Jones game, MachineGames is more likely to be preparing for a sequel. Some believe this has already been hinted at by a recent job listing for a senior concept artist at the studio.

However, the listing makes no mention of working with the Indiana Jones brand, with the only hint being that applicants need ‘experience working in the game and/or film industry.’

Aside from being optional, the studio’s request for film industry experience doesn’t necessarily mean it’s for another Indy project and could just as easily apply to any other game with cinematic style presentation.

It may also be too early for MachineGames to have started development on a second Indiana Jones game, as it’s yet to release The Great Circle’s DLC story expansion.

As a reminder, the expansion is dubbed The Order Of The Giants and is scheduled to launch across all platforms on September 4.

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