Another of The Game Awards 2019's potential announcements may have just been hinted at on social media, by none other than Dungeons & Dragons publisher Wizards of the Coast. The annual award show's producer, Geoff Keighley, has already confirmed that The Game Awards 2019 will feature around 10 new game reveals. Those reveals have been left mysterious, but are being hinted at in the leadup to the event. Wizards of the Coast is providing one such hint.
The tease comes via Wizard of the Coast's Dungeons & Dragons Twitter account in a simple but straightforward post. The post reads "Hey, @TuqueGames. See you @thegameawards." It's accompanied by an image of a ghostly orc with glowing white eyes, who is wearing a large horned beast's skull as a helmet. It's not immediately clear who this orc might be or if they're important to what Wizards of the Coast is teasing. The image might just be a Dungeons & Dragons image that was available at hand.
Beyond the immediately recognizable teaser, which is that Wizards of the Coast is now expected to be showing something at The Game Awards 2019, the only other hint is the named studio Tuque Games. Tuque Games may not be a familiar name to many game players, as it only has one published game named Livelock. Tuque's next game remains unknown, but it was revealed earlier this year that it was a Dungeons & Dragons project made in partnership with Wizards of the Coast. In October, it was announced that Wizards of the Coast had purchased Tuque Games.
Exactly what kind of Dungeons & Dragons game Tuque might be working on remains a mystery. A job listing several months ago revealed the need for a Narrative Designer to work on quests, cinematics, branching conversations, barks, and banter, and is likely related. It would be easy to assume that Tuque is working on an RPG of some kind, though what kind is a guess. Tuque is a studio with around 50 employees, about 1/4 the size of Baldur's Gate 3 studio Larian, but still big enough to create big RPG if it was of the mind to.
With The Game Awards 2019 now just a day away, fans won't have to wait long to find out what Wizards of the Coast and Tuque Games are up to. The Game Awards 2019 airs Thursday, December 12, at 6:30 pm PT and will run for around 2 and a half hours. The new Dungeons & Dragons game joins a list that already includes a new game from WolfEye Studios and a League of Legends spin-off title published, but not developed, by Riot Games. There's a lot to look forward to.
Wizards of the Coast's new Dungeons & Dragons game has no confirmed release date, platforms, or title.