There’s something very cleverly hidden on a whiteboard by the developers in their Xbox Developer_Direct ’24 segment.

This week’s show featured four games: Avowed, Ara: History Untold, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which we’ve already mentioned in a leak. The Indy game is being worked on by MachineGames, the developers behind the Wolfenstein reboot titles we’ve been seeing for the past decade (we can write that now because Wolfenstein: The New Order came out in May 2014!).

If you were paying attention, you might have noticed something on the studio’s sign (we can show you this in the form of a picture below), and many people did, as this is what the ResetEra forum is discussing. In the corner of the sign closer to us, we can see AKE 6, and below it, part of a familiar logo appears. It’s the Quake logo, which leads us to believe that it’s Quake 6 (and we suspect that it will run on the id Tech engine, which is also used in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and the recent Wolfenstein titles!)

But the name Quake 6 may be a bit of a mystery. Quake 4 was released in 2005, that’s clear. But then there was no Quake 5! 2007’s Enemy Territory: Quake Wars might not count as one, so we should think more of 2017’s Quake Champions, since the project was internally called Quake 5. So what would MachineGames have to do with Quake? In addition to Quake remasters, the studio has also made new episodes (Dimension of the Machine and Call of the Machine were their names), so they’re no strangers to the almost 30-year-old IP.

The existence of Quake 6 is not yet official, and it’s not known if MachineGames is developing it on their own or if they’re helping id Software (if they’re not developing the new DOOM), but it’s clear that Microsoft did it on purpose, because they made us talk about them…

Source: WCCFTech