News Dispatch on the Voices Behind Dispatch

Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, and more tell us about the episodic game.

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Rutledge Daugette
October 31, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes

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Senior Editor Andrew Stretch chatted with the likes of Travis Willingham, Joel Haver, and Laura Bailey to learn more about their characters in the superhero workplace comedy(?) game Dispatch. It’s carrying the torch that the original Telltale left after it closed down. It’s releasing on a two-episode cadence, and you can read our thoughts on Episodes 3 and 4 here.

You may have seen the news late last week about Halo getting a fresh new remaster, and it’s coming to PlayStation. Opinion writer Anson Chan thinks this is another sign of the Xbox brand flailing for relevancy and revenue.

On a larger scale, this is just another sign of a seemingly weekly news cycle about the decline of Xbox as a hardware house. In fact, the company reported this week that hardware sales continue to fall, despite services and content revenue going up.

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