D&D (2024) Wizards Presents show on August 18th! Update: WotC announces guests and time.

[Henadic Theologian]

Well, not necessarily, just that WotC thinks she is a good fit fkr the role...which she seems to be.

Maybe,but I don't think its an accident they choose someone with a background in video games. WotC does have a video game studio working on none MtG or D&D games.

They now have Toque Games Studio, Skeleton Key Studios (too early for anything from SKS), and Archetype Entertainment Studios which has been working on a new Science RPG IP not related to D&D or MtG since 2019 for WotC.

Archetype Entertainment - Wikipedia

 

[Parmandur]

For completion sake here is Jimmy Wong at the MtG 2021 Showcase (which I think will be the inspiration for the format for Wizard's Presents, given it's the direct functional successor to the MtG showcases, doing their job of announcing the next upcoming MtG year's sets, although expanded to D&D and possibly other products this year).

He was hilarious in the Steixhaven Campus Tour:

 

[Parmandur]

Maybe,but I don't think its an accident they choose someone with a background in video games. WotC does have a video game studio working on none MtG or D&D games.

True, Has ro seems intent on turning WotC into a major video game publisher...and because of Arena, strictly speaking they already are.

 

[overgeeked]

So is the other male presenter Mercer?

 

[Parmandur]

So is the other male presenter Mercer?

Nope, just the three, one of the ladies just has S-tier hair like Mercer.

 

[overgeeked]

Nope, just the three, one of the ladies just has S-tier hair like Mercer.

D’oh. That’s what I get for not checking the OP. Thanks.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

True, Has ro seems intent on turning WotC into a major video game publisher...and because of Arena, strictly speaking they already are.

I was actually referring to Archetype Entertainment which has been working on a none D&D/MtG Sci Fi RPG for WotC since 2019, it may finally be baring fruit.

Archetype Entertainment - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Also on their Twitter feed last year they announced a partnership with Blur Studios (who does CGI for Video Games) and hiring people. I mean eventually that has to bear fruit and they seem happy enough with Archetype Studios work to found another studio like it, Skeleton Key Studios.

 

[Parmandur]

I was actually referring to Archetype Entertainment which has been working on a none D&D/MtG Sci Fi RPG for WotC since 2019, it may finally be baring fruit.

Archetype Entertainment - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Right, WotC has at least 4 studios last I checked, including the phenomenally successful Arena team. We might hear about a new video game on 8/18.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Right, WotC has at least 4 studios last I checked, including the phenomenally successful Arena team. We might hear about a new video game on 8/18.

I didn't know that Arena was it's own studio, I do know Magic Online got contracted out to be run by another company to Redevote resources to Arena I believe (hopefully to fix the games annoying, nightmare bugs).

WotC is the engine keeping Hasbro afloat right now.

 

[Parmandur]

I didn't know that Arena was it's own studio, I do know Magic Online got contracted out to be run by another company to Redevote resources to Arena I believe (hopefully to fix the games annoying, nightmare bugs).

WotC is the engine keeping Hasbro afloat right now.

It is made internally, yup. Getting that up and going successfully is probably one of the main reasons Cocks got promoted as he did.