As part of the mass layoffs hitting Xbox, Doom developer id Software has laid off around 50 percent of its staff, according to Game Developer. One source claimed to the publication that the cuts equate to more than 90 redundancies. Another source said that id's QA department was significant ly impacted. The report was published the same day that id is releasing a major expansion for its latest Doom game. A former id employee affected by the cuts, Michael Maynard, corroborated the figure in a LinkedIn post, saying that the layoffs affected "roughly" 50 percent of the company. "We created arguably THE BEST first person engine technology in the … Read the full story at The Verge. ...read more read less