America went blue, let’s celebrate with the announcement of Wolfenstein 3
Asha Sharma announced that the next Wolfenstein game is in the works at MachineGames
Remember when hating and killing Nazis was normal and cool and not some hot-button political issue in the United States? Yeah, me too. Yesterday at Xbox Fanfest's final tour stop in Seattle, CEO Asha Sharma announced that MachineGames is working on the next installment in the Wolfenstein series.
It's still early days for Wolfenstein 3 at MachineGames, but we did get a very small glimpse of a script, as well as an image of Debra Wilson and Brian Bloom in motion capture suits. The studio also confirmed the game will be a direct sequel, continuing the series' story that kicked off with 2014's Wolfenstein: The New Order.
I personally welcome a brand new entry. It's been 9 years since Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, and online rhetoric around the game got weird back when it was releasing in 2017. Things haven't exactly calmed down on that front in American politics. If you're from another part of the world, we recently had our Midterm elections and many historically right-leaning, MAGA friendly states have gone blue for the first time in a very long time. My own home state of Texas just elected its first Latina as governor, and we flipped the Senate seat blue. Hopefully, this is a good sign of things to come.
It'll be a while before MachineGames shows off Wolfenstein 3, let alone releases the game. Time will tell if everyone can be a little bit more chill and handle the notion of killing Nazis in a video game some 10 years on.
