Dungeons & Dragons Is Getting Another Videogame, While Hasbro Won’t Finance Any More Film Adaptations
Dungeons & Dragons is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year in style. The IP is healthier than ever, and Wizards of the Coast has just released the new 2024 Player's Guide and Dungeon Master's Guide, while the Monster Manual is slated to be available on February 18, 2025. But the company is betting big on videogames, too, following the big success of Larian's Baldur's Gate 3, which earned the D&D IP owner over $90 million in its first six months.
Speaking to Bloomberg, Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks confirmed that there's another videogame in development in addition to the ones we already knew of. Let's recap: the co-op game announced by Starbreeze in December 2023 for a 2026 release; this one will be set in Waterdeep, one of the biggest cities of Faerûn. Then there is the D&D Virtual Reality game announced this January by Resolution Games, and the regular Dungeons and Dragons Unreal Engine 5 game in development at Invoke (formerly Tuque, the studio that made Dark Alliance). This latter Dungeons & Dragons videogame might feature some sort of PvP mode, as gleaned from a job advertisement.
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It's not even all about D&D, anyway, as Hasbro has also invested in Archetype Entertainment's sci-fi RPG Exodus, featuring Matthew McConaughey as one of the main characters and developed by former BioWare designers and writers. Moreover, they've got a G.I. Joe Snake Eyes game in development at Atomic Arcade and a horror game in the making at Skeleton Key. The article also said there's a new Magic title in testing with the Commander format; this would be separate from Magic: The Gathering Arena. All in all, the company is investing over a billion dollars at a rate of $100 to $150 million a year to release one or two games per year starting in 2026.
On the flip side, Hasbro is paring back its investments in film adaptations. Following the slightly underwhelming box-office performance of Dungeons & Dragons: Honor
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