A new, single-player Dungeons & Dragons action adventure is on the way from Stig Asmussen, the director behind Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor and God of War 3.
The currently-untitled D&D project was announced today by Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, and is set to launch on PC and unannounced consoles “at a later date.”
Asmussen’s new studio Giant Skull is on development duties for the upcoming D&D project. Founded last year following Asmussen’s departure from Respawn Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based Giant Skull was previously announced as making a new AAA single-player game built using Unreal Engine 5.
“Our talented and experienced team at Giant Skull is built on creativity and curiosity,” Asmussen said in a statement today. “Our goal is to craft a rich new Dungeons & Dragons universe filled with immersive storytelling, heroic combat and exhilarating traversal that players will fully embrace.”
The announcement of Giant Skull’s project adds to a portfolio of games set to be published by Wizards of the Coast over the coming years, after the hugely-successful Baldur’s Gate 3 from Larian, another D&D game, helped raised the profile of the franchise globally.
Another D&D action adventure game is already in development at Invoke Studios, the team behind Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance. Wizards of the Coast is also set to publish Exodus, the promising-looking sci-fi RPG from Archetype Entertainment, a developer founded by a collection of former Mass Effect veterans.
As for the Baldur’s Gate series, it’s expected that another game will eventually materialise, though not from Baldur’s Gate 3 studio Larian, which has now moved on to something new. Instead, Wizards of the Coast is expected to announce plans to continue the franchise with a different developer.
“We’re kind of working out our plans for the future and what we’re going to be doing with that,” Hasbro gaming boss Dan Ayoub told IGN back in March this year. “And actually, in pretty short order, we’re going to have some stuff to talk about around that.”
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