Wolfenstein 3 Enters Production at MachineGames in Uppsala

Wolfenstein 3 is officially in production at MachineGames. Xbox chief executive Asha Sharma confirmed the sequel on Thursday, November 12, 2026, at the Seattle finale of Xbox's 25th-anniversary FanFest tour, and the studio followed with its own post: "His reputation precedes him. Wolfenstein 3 is in production."

The cast is already back at work. Bethesda's announcement page shows Brian Bloom and Debra Wilson in motion-capture suits, and both actors reprise their roles, Bloom as B.J. Blazkowicz and Wilson as Grace Walker, the resistance leader introduced in Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus. A second photo shows a script page, and that's the extent of the material released.

That script page is the only story detail anyone has. It heads a first chapter and an interrogation scene, and it confirms Blazkowicz returns as the lead. It doesn't confirm a setting, a year or a supporting cast beyond the two actors in the capture photo, and scenes at this stage of a production can change before a game ships.

The gap since the last mainline entry is long. Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus came out in 2017, and the series' only release since then is the 2019 spinoff Wolfenstein: Youngblood. MachineGames, the Uppsala studio behind the modern series, spent the intervening years building Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which shipped in 2024.

Everything a buyer needs is still missing. Xbox listed no platforms, no release window and no engine, and it showed no gameplay footage at FanFest or afterward. A casting report earlier in 2026 pointed to capture work running into 2027, which the studio hasn't confirmed, and even that report wouldn't put the game close to finished.

So the announcement settles one question and leaves the rest open. The sequel exists, its two central actors are recording, and the studio that made the series' reputation is making it. When it arrives, and on what, is information Xbox hasn't shared, and "in production" is the whole of the news until it does.

The timing was staged for maximum attention. The Seattle show closed an eight-city FanFest tour three days before the original Xbox console's 25th anniversary on November 15, 2026, and Sharma used the finale to announce a sequel fans had requested for years. That placement explains the shape of the reveal: a beloved name, two returning actors and a script page are enough for an anniversary crowd, even when the game itself is years of work away from a trailer.