AdHoc Studio is an independent game developer founded in 2018 by industry veterans from

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; namely, Telltale alumni Michael Choung, Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, and Pierre Shorette. The studio's first game, ''Dispatch'', is set to be released in 2025.

History

After the sudden closure of Telltale Games and failed ventures into Ubisoft and Night School Studio, AdHoc Studio was formed in 2018 by Michael Choung, Nick Herman, Dennis Lenart, and Pierre Shorette. Their team has been the creative force behind some of the Telltale's most successful games, such as '' The Walking Dead'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. Their goal is to carry the interactive narrative torch into the future. In December 2018, Telltale Games was revived after its assets were purchased by LCG Entertainment. Now doing business as Telltale Games, they re-acquired the video game rights to

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properties such as ''

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'' (''The Wolf Among Us'') and ''

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''. Since AdHoc was partially founded by Nick Herman and Dennis Lenart, the directors of the first episode of ''The Wolf Among Us'', as well as Pierre Shorette, the writer of that first episode, the new Telltale Games approached the team to help make a sequel. Following the game's cancellation under the original Telltale, ''

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'' was re-announced at

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. On March 20, 2023, a re-release of the 2010 indie game ''

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'' was listed on

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, to be published by AdHoc Studio. Though it was set to be released in 2023, it never did, as in 2024 it was announced by the game's creator that the project was canceled. At

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, AdHoc announced their first original title, ''Dispatch''. The choice-based narrative game follows former superhero Robert Robertson, voiced by ''

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'' actor

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, who has to take a job as a dispatcher for superheroes after his mecha suit was destroyed. The game's voice cast also includes

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in supporting roles. ''Dispatch'' will be self-published by AdHoc and is currently set to release in 2025. In July 2025,

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announced that a video game set in

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was in early development through a partnership with AdHoc Studio.

Games developed

References

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