"Doom 4" is coming after years of silence from the franchise.

Pete Hines, Bethesda Softworks VP, told PC Gamer that "Doom 4" has a 2015 release date, and that no new information will be coming for awhile.

"'Next year is normally when I think we would've started,' said Hines, which means after the recent Quake Con announcement, we are unlikely to get any new information until next year. 

"Doom 3" was an abismal failure, and the QuakeCon reveal teaser gameplay trailer showed that the franchse was trying to get to its roots as a fast paced shooter game. You can watch the trailer below, suffice to say it features the character getting beat to death with its own severed arm. The trailer also featured double jumps and jetpacks, which is said to give the game a much more vertical feel when compared to other shooters. 

"I really wanted to put something out there that, in a strong way, said, 'id is working on something that we think is really cool,'" said Hines, "And we wanted ... to show something to [id Software fans] that gives them the confidence that it is still a viable studio that's doing really cool stuff, that is making a game you want to play, and is treating Doom with the care and respect that you want.

"And now we're going to go away and go back to making the game, but to be able to counter other people talking about us and we're sort of just sitting here staying silent, or operating from this negative space of like, 'Oh, it got rebooted, oh it's in trouble.' All of that stuff just bothered the hell out of me,"he added.

The storyline of Doom 4 will be based on Mars, an involve a secret experiment that accidentally opens a doorway to hell, allowing demons into this plane of reality.

Seeing as it is a full reboot, the game will probably simply be called "Doom" rather than "Doom 4," but for clarity's sake we will stick with "Doom 4" until the game's name is made official. 

"We're working with them to say, 'How does this work? What do we want to show?'" Hines explained. "And they're like, 'Look, we don't want a stream to go up for a game that isn't at the point where we would formally show it to the world, and now that thing is getting picked apart, and digested, and gone through frame-by-frame and getting nitpicked to death, when normally we wouldn't be showing this to anybody at all.'"

So all this means that "Doom 4" has been on a rocky road, and still has a lot of production to go through. That said, if Bethesda and Id get it together, we could be looking at a late 2015 release date. 

Check back for more information as we get closer to the "Doom 4" release date.