Nine Years After ‘The New Colossus,’ ‘Wolfenstein 3’ Is Finally in Production

B.J. Blazkowicz is back. Nine years after Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Xbox CEO Asha Sharma announced on Twitter that “Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames.” She even shared a page of the script, and B.J. gets exactly one word of dialogue. It’s enough to scare the shit out of the guy sitting across from him.

The first chapter is called “Nazitraz.” Inside an interrogation cell, a clock sits a couple of minutes shy of twelve. B.J. leans in close to a man named Otto and says, “Hi.” Otto takes one look at him and answers in German: “Oh fuck. Oh… Fuck. Not him. Fuck.” Fergus is in the room, too. MachineGames also shared a photo from a motion capture session.

Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at @MachineGames. One of gaming’s most important franchises, and a team that has done remarkable work bringing it forward. Looking forward to sharing more. https://t.co/YyX8LrbTvh

— ASHA (@asha_shar) November 12, 2026

Wolfenstein goes all the way back to 1981’s Castle Wolfenstein, a stealth game for the Apple II. The one that helped change PC gaming was id Software’s Wolfenstein 3D in 1992. A year before Doom, it put you behind B.J.’s gun and sent you down the corridors of a Nazi stronghold. If you want to know how much mileage horror games have gotten out of walking into a room and hearing something before you can see it, we’ve written about the monsters lurking in those halls.

MachineGames picked up B.J.’s story with Wolfenstein: The New Order in 2014. He wakes up in 1960 to discover the Nazis won World War II, and joins what’s left of the European resistance. The well-reviewed New Colossus followed in 2017, bringing him home to an occupied America in 1961 to recruit resistance leaders and start a revolution. We did get the co-op spinoff Youngblood in 2019, which sent B.J.’s twin daughters looking for their missing father in Paris. It’s the next numbered game we’ve been waiting nine years for.