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HISTORICAL FACTS: Adhoc - The Untold Story

How BAFTA-winning Dispatch was made using Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine helped the superhero game's indie developer create and iterate faster.

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Dispatch's character and concept artist was picked up on ArtStation 'as a last resort', a temporary solution 'to get us through the pitch phase', before defining the entire game's artstyle

Emergency call.

PC Gamer

The Dispatch leads had "a mix of arrogance and stupidity" as they faced down publishers telling them single-player narrative games were "niche, or worse, dead"

"Just because we can make an open-world action RPG, doesn't mean we should"

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Dispatch doesn't let you derail conversations with blank, vacant stares because 'less than 1%' of players ever chose to stay silent in Telltale games

Unfortunately, weaponized awkwardness still takes up development resources.

PC Gamer

Dispatch is lying to you about RNG for your own good, just like XCOM: "Those guys are pretty smart, so we thought we'd do the same"

Adhoc "landed on anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed"

GamesRadar

'We are definitely not doing QTEs', said Dispatch's creative director before doing QTEs: 'We just needed it to not suck'

What came first? The dispatching minigame or the Z-Team?

PC Gamer

Dispatch directors chose their animators because they'd made a 'really cool apple juice commercial'

"We could kind of squint and start to see Dispatch for the first time."

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Just like XCOM, superhero comedy Dispatch cheats random percentages of success in the player's favor: 'anything that had over a 76% success chance would automatically succeed'

"If coincidences are just coincidences, why do they feel so contrived?"

PC Gamer

Making Dispatch was motivated by 'a mix of arrogance and stupidity,' its creative directors say

Developing Dispatch meant ignoring investors and publishers who insisted it was doomed.

PC Gamer

After Cyberpunk 2077 came to Switch 2 uncensored, Dispatch dev thought it "would be allowed to do the same" and is now "working with Nintendo on a path forward"

"I'll get ahead of it now and say that between dev time and the console submission process, we're talking weeks not days."

GamesRadar

Despite all the hentai games, Nintendo won't allow episodic superhero hit Dispatch on Switch uncensored

Dispatch has landed on Switch, but it's heavily censored

GamesRadar

Dispatch: how a game about a superhero workplace comedy became 2026's first must-play sleeper hit

Aaron Paul, ominous cat mascots and a team of misfit superheroes all combine to make this a must-play

Evening Standard

Dispatch season 2 isn't even confirmed, but I'm already wondering how it could handle the battle of the best girl

Opinion | Whether Visi goes to the dark side or not is kind of neither here nor there

GamesRadar

Dispatch is one of my favorite superhero stories in years — between the great characters, humor, and romance, I'm already hungry for a Season 2

AdHoc Studio's Dispatch is one of the best narrative-focused games in years, cutting through superhero malaise to deliver a funny, hopeful story.

Windows Central

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Dispatch being 'basically a live-service game for a month' did gangbusters, but leads say don't expect to copy it and get the same result

"If you think episodic alone is going to be the thing that dictates success for you, then good luck!"

GamesRadar

Hitman and 007 First Light studio admits there were "many, many mistakes" made with Agent 47, but that Telltale veterans' new game is teaching them some lessons

IO Interactive is paying attention to AdHoc Studios

GamesRadar

Gorgeous Dispatch criminal was apparently based on a popular soda ad, according to art director: "And the body type of LeanBeefPatty"

Malevola is a LeanPepsiCan

Windows Central

Dispatch creative director says generative AI isn't a solution for creative problems — "Maybe it's a creative one if you aren't creative."

Dispatch developer AdHoc Studio has a dim view of generative AI, saying that maybe it's a creative solution "if you aren't creative."

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Dispatch dev says "there was no glitch" causing a bad ending, it's just you

AdHoc explains concerns of bugged episodes

PC Gamer

Dispatch is set to hit its fantasy 'Bull case' 3-year sales target in just 3 months, and players have gone gaga for its episodic release structure

Turns out old-fashioned TV was onto a good thing.

PC Gamer

'We definitely cut some sex scenes': There could have been an even raunchier version of superhero comedy Dispatch

We were robbed.

Destructoid

Dispatch Review – The best-written game of the year

A game of mind-blowing quality.

PC Gamer

Dispatch review

AdHoc Studio's first game is my new favourite superhero show.

Inverse

The Best Superhero Game Of The Year Succeeded Against All Odds

In an exclusive interview, 'Dispatch's writer talks about the game's success, crafting a superhero world, and the future of narrative titles.

GamesRadar

After selling 1 million copies in just 10 days, devs behind story-driven episodic superhero game Dispatch need to "think about" season 2: "That was a question mark 3 weeks ago"

Dispatch season 2 is suddenly looking likely

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