Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock Video Game Announced by Invoke Studios

Invoke Studios, a subsidiary of Wizards of the Coast, has announced Dungeons & Dragons: Warlock, a new video game due out for 2027. The game features a new character named Kaati, played by Tricia Helfer, and will be a third-person action-adventure game. Players will use spellcraft to "solve challenges and take down monsters" with players having some freedom in how they solve problems.

"We're not trying to simulate the tabletop RPG experience, so there is no dice-rolling in the game — we're trying to really deliver a video-game experience first," said Dominic Guay, studio lead at Invoke Studios, in an interview with IGN. "If you are not familiar with Dungeons and Dragons, you are not going to feel friction, like in that you're missing details of the world. But if you are a fan of the universe, you are going to be really excited about what we are doing with the lore of the series for Warlock."

Invoke Studios was previously called Tuque Games, and made the much-derided Dark Alliance game in 2021.

Gameplay will be revealed in 2026, with a planned release for 2027.

 

[Chaltab]

I'm 52 and I had never heard of rule 34 until this thread. At least I have no memory of hearing about it until now.

i guess it's more of a millennial thing.

 

[Azzy]

I'm 52 and I had never heard of rule 34 until this thread. At least I have no memory of hearing about it until now.

I'm 51, but remember hearing about it at the time. I guess it just depends where you were on the internet.

 

[Charlaquin]

i guess it's more of a millennial thing.

Rather, it’s a terminally online thing.

 

[Libertad]

This trailer looks badass! I'm a huge fan of Shadow the Edgehog!

 

[FrogReaver]

Well, it’s more complicated than just “it was EA’s fault.” All of the public information suggest that EA gave BioWare a ton of creative freedom, and most of the studio’s management problems were internal. But, it is very clear that the problems were with management, not with the writers, programmers, and other on-the-ground staff. I’m sure EA are far from blameless in the mishandling of the studio’s talent, but “studio good, publisher bad” is oversimplifying and glosses over the fact that BioWare’s own internal leadership was also terrible, and probably had a much bigger impact on the most criticized aspects of the studio’s games than EA did.

Okay but, wasn't bioware's internal management mostly the same from the earlier games to the newer ones?

 

[Charlaquin]

Okay but, wasn't bioware's internal management mostly the same from the earlier games to the newer ones?

Not really, no. The original founders were Ray Muzyka, Greg Zeschuk, and Augustine Yip. They were at the helm during the Baldur’s Gate era. Yip left before the EA acquisition in 2007. Muzyka and Zeschuk were still there until 2016, but there was a lot of internal restructuring after the EA acquisition, so while they were still at the company I think they were much less involved in Dragon Age and Mass Effect than they were with the classic BioWare games. Casey Hudson was the creative director for Mass Effect 1-3. He left in 2014, came back in 2017 to try to save Anthem and left again in 2020. David Gaider was the creative director for DA:O, DA2, and DA:I, but left in 2017. Studio head Aaryn Flynn left in 2018. Mike Laidlaw Was also creative director for a while, I don’t remember when he left. And I’m probably forgetting other significant departures. BioWare leadership was kind of a revolving door in the 2010s, honestly.

Moreover, stories from former BioWare developers and writers paint a picture of a studio that was kind of always a hot mess, but at first that felt like part of the “scrappy indie studio” charm. As they got bigger and more corporatized, they lost that “little developer that could” spirit but never grew out of the messy, inefficient part.