E3 2019: Mythic Quest TV Show From Always Sunny Creators Will Skewer Self-Important Game Devs

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia star and creator Rob McElhenney took to the stage (scored by its theme) during Ubisoft's E3 2019 presentation to share Mythic Quest: Raven's Banquet, a half-hour comedy TV show about the developers of a fictional MMORPG coming to Apple's upcoming streaming service, Apple TV+. McElhenney stars as the wildly popular fictional game's self-aggrandizing creative director, Ian Grimm as his team is about to launch the game's first major expansion. McElhenney created the show along with fellow It's Always Sunny alums Charlie Day and Megan Ganz.

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The trailer opens with an ego-massaging advertisement for the game that focuses entirely on the brilliance of McElhenney's Grimm, before cutting to his skeptical staff watching it, which includes some great actors like F. Murray Abraham, Community's Danny Pudi, and Ashly Burch, who is one of the leading voice actors in gaming today. It brings to mind The Guild, the 2007-2013 web series starring and created by Felicia Day which followed some players of another World of Warcraft stand-in.

Questions of how games are made and the people who make them have been in the air lately with the general increase on labor reporting for the industry, so it feels like a fruitfully charged moment to explore the subject with satire. We don't yet know details about the release date, or whether it will be available on any platforms besides Apple TV+.

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