The Business: Palladium Rescues A Lost Tie-In Product

Last week, Kevin Siembieda announced that the lost videogame tie-in game would be revived and brought to current consoles and PC.

Expect Palladium jank. The original game was exactly that.

That said, this is what more Tabletop companies that want to Not Die need to do: find AA (not AAA) people to partner with to make adaptations of their IPs, with the specific aim of getting Vidya people to buy their stuff- and thus to pivot out of Tabletop game production into a Brand-focused publisher selling Coffee Table lore books (think Dinotopia) primarily and all else secondarily- as derivatives of the audience's fascination with the world (which, yes, means that the world is the star, not any individual or narrative in it).

If anyone could do this well, it's Siembieda; that's what his publishing company is in reality- he sells a lot, but it's played little, as most read/dream/write fanfic than play these jank games. He just needs to be shown this and convinced he'd do better if he reorganized Palladium accordingly.