Wolfenstein 3 Is In Production at MachineGames, No Date Yet

Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames. Xbox confirmed it on November 12, 2026 in its Xbox FanFest roundup. The news came with photos, not gameplay: there is still no release date, no platform list, no trailer, and Steam’s store search has no Wolfenstein 3 page.

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma’s post carried one photo, and it is the interesting one. It is a page from the script, shot on a clipboard, headed “Chapter 01 – Nazitraz”. The scene heading reads “INT. THE INTERROGATION CELL”. A direction tells the camera to close on a table clock reading “a couple of minutes before twelve”. BJ leans in close to Otto, so close that Otto cannot help looking over at him. Otto’s reply is written “(in German)”, and the English line ends with “Not him.” The first look at the story in the new game is a page of paper.

MachineGames confirmed it a few minutes later. Its post says “His reputation precedes him. Wolfenstein 3 is in production”, and it adds a second photo from the studio’s motion-capture stage. Brian Bloom and Debra Wilson stand across a table in tracking suits, wearing head cameras. Bethesda says the two reprise their roles as B.J. Blazkowicz and Grace Walker, and that the studio will share more once it is ready.

The news came out at Xbox FanFest in Seattle, part of Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary celebration, and IGN notes that the official anniversary date is Sunday, November 15. MachineGames, the Swedish studio behind 2024’s Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, had put Wolfenstein on hold after 2017’s Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus to build that game. This is the series’ first new entry in nine years.

For players this is a promise, not a product, and the script page is the only real detail. MachineGames’ “in production” means what it says, since the same studio shipped Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. A clipboard photo is as far as anyone has seen the game. The one hard fact inside the photos is the opening chapter: BJ’s story starts in an interrogation cell, with Otto afraid of whoever is about to walk through the door. IGN quotes MachineGames studio head Jerk Gustafsson saying the team had “always seen [BJ’s story] as a trilogy”, a plan he traces back to his first weeks at id Software mapping out Wolfenstein: The New Order. The franchise is also being made into a TV series at Amazon, so two timelines are running at once for a series that has sat still since 2017. The next real step is a date and a platform list. Seattle is already dressed for the party: the Halo: The Great Journey exhibition has run at the Museum of Pop Culture since October 14 and closes on May 16, 2027, and Xbox says it is bringing the celebration back to Seattle.

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