This post contains spoilers for the first two episodes of Dispatch , now available on PlayStation 5 and Windows.

It’s been attempted a few different ways, but nobody has really cracked a legitimate hybrid of scripted TV and video games . Netflix tried with the now-unlisted Black Mirror: Bandersnatch , and studios like Telltale Games have been most successful at interactive visual novels for some time, but now there might be a bona fide contender for the first real playable television series.

Dispatch comes from a studio called AdHoc , comprised of many former members of Telltale. In collaboration with multimedia juggernauts Critical Role , their new project is looking to bring legitimacy to the concept of interactive, choice-driven TV. Rolling out with two roughly hourlon

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