Get Ready: D&D 2024 Is Coming to Gen Con

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Rutledge Daugette
July 19, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

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Heading to Gen Con? You could be one of the first people in the world to get your hands on the next generation of Dungeons & Dragons. Gen Con takes place in Indianapolis Aug. 1–4, which is just two weeks away now.

This version of the book will be commemorative edition for early adopters, making it extra collectable. For the rest of us, we’ll have to wait until September to get the new Core Rulebooks.

We’ve talked about some of the updates on the podcast before, and the new difficulty ranking of each class made us scratch our heads a little (I’m still not convinced Rogues are easier to play than Barbarians).

But on the other (open) hand, the Monk is getting some reworks and buffs, along with many of the other classes. We’ll continue to cover all the big updates with Dungeons & Dragons 2024, and potentially even play some new sessions in a future podcast if you’d like to see it in action!

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In more D&D news, you can access Patch 7 of Baldur’s Gate 3 through a closed beta, if you’re interested. It’ll include official mod support from Larian—which might make more of you interested.

Finally, we get a “slams” headline in the mix. Turns out, last week’s news about Xbox Game Pass got the ire of the Federal Trade Commission, especially in the aftermath of its totally-not-a-monopoly acquisition of Activision Blizzard King.

It’s been three years since Splitgate came out, and now a sequel is coming down the pipeline next year. It’ll be in Unreal Engine 5, but still have that Portal-meets-Halo action that made it so successful in the first place.

It could be your only way to get a new Halo-adjacent fix for next year, since the Halo TV show just got canceled at Paramount. The show’s producers are shopping it around to other networks, so a potential season 3 could still happen.

Reports say that NetherRealm has shut down its mobile games division, putting the future of Mortal Kombat Mobile and Injustice 2 (the mobile version) into question.

That Neopets TTRPG we reported on a few weeks ago crushed its Kickstarter goal, and we’re excited to see where it goes next. This is also another reminder to check your Neop

Remember when Orcs Must Die! 3 was a Stadia exclusive? Well thankfully, it didn’t stay that way, and now Robots Entertainment has announced that a new game in its hybrid tower-defense franchise is coming.

All it took was one remake of a decades-old visual novel to get him invested in the genre.

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