New Arcadia

Now with a brand-new introduction to the world of New Arcadia, featuring Sam Riegel. Experience the first book in the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning trilogy. Book 3—New Arcadia: Judgment Day—starring Robert Patrick coming July 2025.

In a not-so-distant future, a deadly pandemic has forced the world into social isolation. Confined to their homes, millions now survive off drone-delivered food packages and online-only interactions.

It’s an especially lonely life for John Chambers, a drone shipment coordinator for the monolithic Chum Corporation. Trapped in his dead-end job, John has started spending more time grinding in virtual reality MMORPGs.

But when a corporate executive notices the hundreds of hours John’s logged online, he’s offered one last chance to save his job, and also his life. John reluctantly agrees to become prime beta tester for Chum’s top-secret new VR game, New Arcadia—a digital playground inspired by iconic '90s arcade games like Final Fight and Streets of Rage.

In New Arcadia, John gets to return to a hyper-nostalgic "199X" and do it right this time. Reborn as digital streetfighter Blaze, John starts cleaning up crime with his fists of fury while also building an online life for himself that seems so much more meaningful than the one he’d had in "real" life.

But John soon discovers there’s a darker and more ominous purpose behind the Chum Corporation’s new online playground-and as he starts to make real friends in this virtual reality, he also begins to realize that what players do in New Arcadia could have dangerous implications for the real world.

Starring
Eric Jason Martin (Heads Will Roll)
Matthew Mercer (Critical Role)
Dave Fennoy (Fortnite)
Erika Ishii (Ghost of Yotei)
Sam Riegel (Critical Role)
John DiMaggio (Gears of War, Futurama) and a full cast

Theme by Lloyd Cole
Original Soundtrack by Casey Trela
Post Production by Mumble Media