Bethesda: Doom 4 shelving report is "complete bollocks"

Bethesda has flat out denied that Doom 4 has been "indefinitely postponed," saying any such report is "bollocks.

In a tweet, CC'ed to Eurogamer operations director Tom Bramwell, VP of PR and marketing Pete Hines bluntly said Kotaku's original report was "complete bollocks."

He added in a further tweet that "no title under development at id has been postponed – indefinitely or otherwise."

The site was given the info by an anonymous source close to Bethesda, who claimed the decision was made at a "company wide" meeting in Dallas.

The game, first announced in 2008 and largely silent since then, was reportedly put on "indefinite" hold due to "the issues and reviews" of Rage's launch, with Zenimax and Bethesda apparently feeling "a serious lack of confidence in the project management at id".

RAGE currently holds a Metacritic average ranging from 79 on PC to 83 on PlayStation 3. The PC version suffered a number of GPU driver issues at launch which detracted from its claims to graphical prowess. The game has charted highly in all territories.

[Original story by Brenna Hillier, contributions by Johnny Cullen]