Analyst firm Newzoo reports that the sequel has earned $260 million in sales worldwide after the first week of pre-orders.
The report of the game only including less than 40 GB of its data on the disc comes after Halo Studios had announced the disc's inclusion.
A new leadership team is being assembled for the studio and the transition is slated to happen "over the next few months."
Despite the backlash over its Character and Naval Packs, the day-one DLC has reportedly brought in a decent amount of revenue.
"They've just gotten rid of all the people who could ever fix, maintain, or change [id Tech]," said a former id Software employee.
The next mainline entry in the franchise is reportedly still targeting June 2027 and will retail for $70 on Xbox Series X/S, PS5, and PC.
A new powerhouse becomes the youngest-ever face of EA Sports' NHL franchise, with an official reveal trailer coming on July 16th.
Capcom reportedly wants to use these narrative DLCs as a way to fill out its release schedules between new Resident Evil games.
If Nintendo goes ahead with these plans, production on the Switch 2 OLED is reportedly expected to begin later this year.
Other reported features like freeing bound hostages, NPCs shooting from moving vehicles, and so on remain up in the air.
Studio head Pierre Hintze reportedly berated developers and "verbally abused" the Halo: Campaign Evolved team for its issues.
The company's vendor budget has also reportedly been heavily slashed, resulting in layoffs at agencies Microsoft employs.
Codenamed Positron, the program will seemingly allow Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S game discs to be converted to digital licenses.
Bloomberg's Jason Schreier reports that a "lot of cool stuff" is in the works while Diablo 4 continues to be a "successful game."
Despite losing many developers, the studio affirmed reports that it's "about the same size" as when it worked on 2016's DOOM.
A report has also noted that the team behind the studio's id Tech engine hasn't been completely stripped of its programmers.
Former co-founder Chris Avellone said that he had heard from those still at the studio that it's planning a "re-pitch" of Avowed 2.
Industry analyst Rhys Elliot has estimated that the remake has already started outpacing the sales of Assassin's Creed Shadows on Steam.
Among the casualties of the recent layoffs were several programmers who worked on id Software's proprietary in-house game engine.
Now-former employees of id Software have said that it's difficult to see "a viable way forward" after the studio was gutted with layoffs.
