The studio making it
MachineGames is a Swedish studio founded in 2009 by seven former Starbreeze developers, based in Uppsala, owned by ZeniMax since 2010, and part of Xbox since Microsoft bought ZeniMax in 2020.
The studio named in both announcement posts is not the one that created Wolfenstein. It is the one that rebuilt it, and it has now spent sixteen years on the series it inherited.
The short history
Seven developers left Starbreeze in 2009 and set up MachineGames in Uppsala, Sweden. They spent a year and a half pitching ideas and being turned down by every publisher they approached, and were close enough to the end of their money that selling their homes was on the table.
Then ZeniMax bought id Software and with it the Wolfenstein rights. Bethesda offered the new studio one of its properties, and Jens Matthies asked for Wolfenstein because nobody was making one. The studio was acquired by ZeniMax in November 2010.
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 | Wikipedia, studio history |
| Founders | Seven, all ex-Starbreeze | Wikipedia, studio history |
| Headquarters | Uppsala, Sweden | Wikipedia, studio history |
| Second office | Sundsvall, Sweden | GamesIndustry.biz, February 2026 |
| Parent | ZeniMax Media since 2010 | Wikipedia, studio history |
| Parent's parent | Microsoft, since the 2020 ZeniMax acquisition | GamesIndustry.biz, February 2026 |
| Wolfenstein games shipped | Five between 2014 and 2019 | Steam store records |
| Other major release | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, 2024 | Wikipedia |
What it has made
Five Wolfenstein games in six years, then a seven-year gap, then a script page. The gap is not idleness: the studio shipped Indiana Jones and the Great Circle in 2024, and a studio of roughly 160 people does one large project at a time.
| Year | Release | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | Wolfenstein: The New Order | Developer |
| 2015 | Wolfenstein: The Old Blood | Developer |
| 2017 | Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus | Developer |
| 2019 | Wolfenstein: Youngblood | Co-developer with Arkane |
| 2019 | Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot | Co-developer with Arkane |
| 2024 | Indiana Jones and the Great Circle | Developer |
| Not announced | Wolfenstein 3 | In production |
What the studio has said about a third game
Studio director Jerk Gustafsson has been asked about this repeatedly and has answered consistently without ever giving a date. In a Noclip interview he described the series as always having been a trilogy, with a plan for a third part mapped out as far back as the first game's production. In February 2026 he told GamesIndustry.biz that the intention had always been to return and that they wanted to finish the trilogy.
Our intention has always been to go back to Wolfenstein. We wanted to finish the trilogy. And when we do that, that is something that I don't want to comment on. It can be now, it can be later, but we're not done with it.
Nine months later, the game was confirmed in production. That is the sequence, and it is the whole sequence.
What the ownership change did not do
Microsoft bought ZeniMax in 2020, three years after The New Colossus. Gustafsson told GamesIndustry.biz that very little changed at the studio apart from longer planning horizons, and that the studio now plans at least a couple of games ahead. Wolfenstein 3 is the first Wolfenstein game the studio has started under Xbox ownership.
The announcement page has the two posts, and the series timeline has every game the studio's name appears on.