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The bloodsoaked world of Vampire: The Masquerade is about to come full circle, with recently resurrected TTRPG publisher White Wolf announcing plans for a new sourcebook. The news was announced at the annual Darkness Emergent LARP festival held on May 22nd in Los Angeles, with additional details posted on an official blog.
More information on what the project will consist of will be announced later this summer at Gen Con 2026. It does, however, mark the first official Vampire: The Masquerade book to be released by White Wolf in almost a decade, with books for the current fifth edition of the game being primarily licensed out to other publishers.
Below, we stake out all the details on what this new White Wolf book means for the future of the Kindred.
What is White Wolf’s new Vampire: The Masquerade book?
White Wolf has not yet confirmed what this new book will consist of, noting on their website: “The new project is our love letter to the 30+ years of vampires that have led us here. We’re celebrating the connection between lore and mechanics, rules and storytelling.“
This wording has led many fans to speculate online that we’ll soon be seeing a new 6th edition of Vampire: the Masquerade, as the current 5th edition is beginning to show its age.
The post also notes: “We’re also looking at how we want to work with the metaplot in future books. The sense that history is moving and your chronicle exists inside something larger matters to people. It matters to us too.” This again, has led some to suggest that what we’ll be seeing is more than just a single one-off book, with White Wolf taking on a larger restructuring of the game.
What’s the current state of White Wolf and Vampire: The Masquerade?
First released in 1991, Vampire: The Masquerade has gone through a number of major transitions over the years. After releasing hundreds of books over the span of a decade, in the early 2000s publisher White Wolf ran into financial trouble and the license to the game (and the larger World of darkness franchise) was acquired in 2006 by Icelandic video game studio CCP (creators of the popular EVE Online MMORPG). In 2015, the license was again sold to Swedish video game studio Paradox Interactive (who is best known for real-time strategy titles such as Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings).
In 2018, Paradox and White Wolf were under intense media scrutiny after releasing the fifth edition of Vampire: The Masquerade, which included explicit references to neo-Nazis, pedophilia and homophobia, with many fans and industry watchers speculating that the content was designed to appeal to far-right hate groups. As a result of the scandal, Paradox shuttered the White Wolf studio and hired third-party publishers Modiphius Entertainment and Renegade Game Studios to develop new products under license.
In May 2025, however, Paradox relaunched White Wolf, with the revamped publisher now operating largely as an independent entity that would oversee World of Darkness and Vampire: The Masquerade products, including video games, TTRPGs, board games and other media. A few months later in July 2025, former Dungeons & Dragons executive Jess Lanzillo joined White Wolf as the new Creative Director, and in December 2025 indie RPG creator Diogo Nogueira was hired as Lead Game Designer.
The new VtM project being announced at this year’s Gen Con will be the first official title to be released from Paradox’s revamped White Wolf studio.
Why we’re excited about White Wolf’s new Vampire project
- A return to an RPG icon: In the early 1990s, White Wolf was almost outselling Dungeons & Dragons and was pushing the envelope in terms of gameplay, art and design. The return of Vampire: The Masquerade to the White Wolf banner represents a major milestone in the history of tabletop RPGs.
- New blood: The revived White Wolf studio has some incredible talent on the team, including both Jess Lanzillo and Diogo Nogueira, so it’ll be interesting to see what the team brings to the table and the creative direction they’ll be taking the game in.
- A possible new edition: With V5 now almost a decade old, the timing seems right to introduce a new edition to grow the player base and appease existing fans.
- Community engagement: White Wolf has said they’ve been actively listening to what players want to see with the game. Whether or not this is actually true remains to be seen, but the sentiment is at least there.
Final thoughts
We’ll learn more about what White Wolf has planned for Vampire: The Masquerade at Gen Con on Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at a panel entitled The Future of White Wolf: A World of Darkness Roadmap, with attendees at the convention also able to get their hands on playtest material.
We’ll be keeping a close eye on this story in the days ahead. In the meantime, you can lear more on the official World of Darkness website.