B.J. Blazkowicz is coming back. Wolfenstein 3 in production is now official: on the evening of November 12, 2026, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma posted on X during Xbox’s 25th-anniversary Fanfest period to confirm that MachineGames is making the third game in its planned Wolfenstein trilogy. “Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames.” The post carried a photo of just the upper-left corner of the script’s first page, clipped to a board, and it drew about 1.2 million views, with the official Wolfenstein account reacting to the news. After nearly a decade of waiting, the sequel fans asked for is finally real.
The announcement was deliberately small. Sharma shared no subtitle, no logo, no trailer and no release date — only the confirmation and the script photo. That was all it took. Within hours the post had spread across the games press, and by the next morning the sequel was the biggest story in gaming. MachineGames has said nothing more, and neither has Xbox, so everything beyond the confirmation comes from reading that single corner of a script page.
Wolfenstein 3 in Production: The Script Page Teases a Nazi Prison
The page itself is doing a lot of work. Chapter One is titled Nazitraz, a play on Alcatraz, the famous island prison off the coast of San Francisco. The scene is set in an interrogation cell, where B.J. leans in close to a captive named Otto — a new character, since no Otto appears in the earlier games. Otto insists he is not the man B.J. is looking for, and B.J. answers that Otto’s reputation precedes him. A table clock in the scene sits a couple of minutes before twelve, and B.J. greets Otto with a simple hello.
The last visible line of the page mentions Fergus moving in — and IGN reads the mention of Fergus as a sign that the branching dual-timeline choice from 2014’s The New Order carries into the new game. In that game’s prologue, the player must choose whether to save Fergus Reid or the young Probst Wyatt III, and the survivor shapes the story that follows. A photo also shows actor Brian Bloom performing opposite Debra Wilson. None of this is a confirmed plot detail — it is what a corner of a script page shows, and how IGN reads it — and there is no subtitle, logo, trailer, release date or announced platforms for the game.
The Third Chapter of a Planned Trilogy
MachineGames rebooted the series with Wolfenstein: The New Order in 2014, followed it with Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus in 2017, and then made the 1980s-set co-op spin-off Wolfenstein: Youngblood in 2019. Most recently, the studio made Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in 2024. Studio head Jerk Gustafsson has previously said in a Noclip interview that the team always saw B.J.’s story as a trilogy — and this is that third chapter. For a look back at the sequel’s reveal, see Wolfenstein II The New Colossus Closes Bethesda Showcase.
The trilogy framing also explains why the wait has felt so long, and why the ending cannot be simple. The New Colossus closed with B.J. executing Nazis in front of a live television audience, yet the 1980s-set Youngblood still needs Nazis to fight — so, as IGN notes, the main trilogy cannot end on a clean, final victory. Whatever MachineGames has planned for its third chapter, it has to land in a world where the fight is still going decades later.
id Software Is Already Working on Its Next Game
The Wolfenstein news was not the only update in the same round of announcements reported by Eurogamer. Sharma also confirmed that Doom studio id Software is already working on its next game, with no title or date given, and that Slaughter Mode arrives in Doom: The Dark Ages’ Revelations update on Monday, November 16. The timing is notable given the context: July’s Xbox layoffs reportedly cut 96 of id Software’s 136 staff, a move one former team member described as a bloodbath, though studio leadership has since insisted the team is doing great and working more closely than ever with MachineGames.
Xbox has had a turbulent year, and the Wolfenstein news lands in the middle of it. For more on the platform this week, see New Xbox Games This Week: Football Manager 27 and Warhammer Survivors Hit Game Pass — Week of November 9, and for the other big Xbox business story, 3 Bidders, One Deadline: Ubisoft Is Trying to Buy Arkane From Xbox.
What comes next is the full reveal: a subtitle, a trailer, platforms and a release window, plus confirmation of whether the prison chapter and the timeline choice are really part of the game — and what id Software is building next. None of that has a date yet. For now, the only hard facts are the confirmation and a corner of a script page. After nearly a decade of waiting, that was enough.
Sources: Eurogamer, IGN, and Asha Sharma’s post on X.
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