gamescom 2026 is done and dusted, and it certainly was a strong one by all accounts. The show drew 368,000 attendees, a 3% increase over last year, with Geoff Keighley's Opening Night Live drawing more than 78 million online views, up 7.5%, and showcasing many great upcoming titles. As for which games actually moved their marketing needle, two analytics firms have now published Steam wishlist estimates from the show, and they land in the same place. Based on that data, Wizards of the Coast's Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons was the hottest full game shown at gamescom 2026, and the only […]

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Publisher Wizards of the Coast and Montréal-based developer Invoke Studios (formerly Tuque Games, known for Livelock and Dungeons & Dragons: Dark Alliance) have recently hosted a press-only gameplay presentation with developer Q&A for Warlock: Dungeons & Dragons, their upcoming single player action/adventure game set in the D&D universe. The reveal focused on the game's magic system, open-world structure, and its approach to adapting decades of D&D lore for a real-time action game. A Weapons Master's Dangerous Bargain Players take on the role of Kaatri (played by Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica and Lucifer fame), a seasoned weapons master searching for […]

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Stig Asmussen, the director behind Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order and Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, has had his next game project cancelled. Asmussen left EA shortly after finishing Jedi Survivor to form a new studio to work on a new D&D game, but Wizards of the Coast just scrapped it. 

Asmussen's new studio, Giant Skull, had announced their D&D project last year, but Wizards of the Coast has now “decided not to move forward” with the project, as reported by Bloomberg. It is the second D&D game to be cancelled since the success of Baldur's Gate 3, with the other being Project Baxter, which was being worked on by Starbreeze.

While Giant Skull's D&D game will no longer be made, Wizards of the Coast is still supporting other game projects, including Warlock: Dungeons and Dragons, which was announced at The Game Awards last year.

It is unclear what Giant Skull will move on to next. The studio had put around a year of work into this D&D game concept, and now they will have to start over with something else.

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KitGuru Says: Considering the popularity of D&D right now, and the success of Baldur's Gate 3, it is surprising to see new D&D projects being cancelled so quickly.