Tag: Baldur's Gate 3

Conversations from the Dice Awards green room

Last week, the luminaries of the game industry accepted awards on stage at the Dice Awards event in Las Vegas before hundreds of their peers. The message from Larian Studios, which made the Game of the Year — Baldur’s Gate 3 — was particularly appropriate amid the opulence of the event. “Many, many people were […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 takes Game of the Year at the Dice Awards

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  Baldur’s Gate 3 took Game of the Year at the prestigious Dice Awards, the academy-voted game event in Las Vegas today. Larian’s Baldur’s Gate 3 has already earned a lot of accolades […]

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This dizzyingly brilliant new Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode world record has so many elite tricks in it I’m now convinced its speedrunner is a legitimate wizard

Like many PC gamers, I’ve seen my fair share of speedruns of Larian’s masterpiece, Baldur’s Gate 3, but nothing compares to this brand-new Honour Mode speedrun by speedrunner wizard Mae. Yes, like me you will have seen some of these Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning tips and tricks before, but I’m quite confident that you won’t […]

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This mind-boggling new Baldur’s Gate 3 Honour Mode world record boasts so many elite tricks I’m now convinced its speedrunner is an actual wizard

Like many PC gamers, I’ve seen my fair share of speedruns of Larian’s masterpiece, Baldur’s Gate 3, but nothing compares to this brand-new Honour Mode speedrun by speedrunner wizard Mae. Yes, like me you will have seen some of these Baldur’s Gate 3 speedrunning tips and tricks before, but I’m quite confident that you won’t […]

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Obsidian’s design director would love to add the immersive sim elements of Baldur’s Gate 3 into a ‘Pillars-y’ game: ‘we have mostly 2D worlds, so that’s a lot more difficult’

Before Baldur’s Gate 3 came along and took a great (weapon master) swing at what we thought the CRPG could do, Obsidian was keeping the flame alive with Pillars of Eternity—a series that is by all means absolutely stellar. Granted, Larian’s Divinity: Original Sin 2 laid that groundwork, and the immersive sim elements the studio […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 notches yet another win at the New York Game Awards

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. The New York Game Awards aired last night, and Larian Studios’ Baldur’s Gate 3 won its top award, the Big Apple Award for Best Game of the Year. This marks the title’s […]

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Larian CEO and founder Swen Vincke thinks he’s cracked the first act of his next game, but ‘it’s not what you think and this is not an teaser for an announcement’

Swen Vincke, the CEO and founder of Larian Studio (developer of Baldur’s Gate 3) has taken to Twitter to share some progress on his next game—namely, he thinks he’s got a solid draft going. “Been a great morning! After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, I finally figured […]

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There’s a touching tribute in Baldur’s Gate 3 to a BG2-loving dad with Alzheimer’s: ‘he listened to my description with a child-like glee I haven’t seen in a while’

Back in the early access of Baldur’s Gate 3, a player by the name of Solfalia wrote a heartfelt thank-you to Larian Studios. His father had been recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and it was unlikely that he would be able to play the full game: “This is more than an Early Access for me, […]

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Sorry, Gale—unimaginable arcane power in Baldur’s Gate 3 is as simple as taking off your underwear

Baldur’s Gate 3 is a massive game, which makes for a wonderful experience filled with unexpected story beats. Unfortunately, this also means there are some bugs that are still kicking about, even after several patches. A lot of them have been squashed, and Larian’s blistering pace has given us a whole new epilogue among other […]

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Here’s how to turn Skyrim into the year’s 3 biggest games with the power of mods to beat inflation and save money

We live in tough times. Inflation is high, temperatures are low, my breath fogs in my home and Baldur’s Gate 3 costs $60/£50. I can’t do much about most of those—though I’m working on a scheme to drive inflation down by burning several billion dollars KLF-style—but that last one? I can help with that last […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s color filters are a sore reminder that most color-blind accessibility options are still a total mess in games

While accessibility options in games are by no means perfect—and often at the whim of a studio’s budget or predisposition—they’ve certainly improved. However, one particular niche I inhabit is all over the damn shop: color blind settings. Baldur’s Gate 3’s fourth patch introduced some, and for me? They didn’t really help. But first, I’m going […]

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‘She was so very well-defined from the get-go’: Baldur’s Gate 3’s Gith darling Lae’zel changed the least during its development

The cast of Baldur’s Gate 3 has evolved over the game’s Early Access period and beyond—Wyll in particular had a whole rewrite between the game’s conception and its full release. Whether it’s whole storylines shifting or just toning down Gale’s accidental thirstiness, finding the core of a character in a story this large is bound […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 leads BAFTA Game Awards’ longlist of nominees

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. The British Academy of Film and Television Awards (BAFTA) is starting a new process for its 2024 Game Awards. Today it released the longlist of all 60 games that are potentially up […]

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Attic find! 13 years later I see just how far this former world champion graphics card can go in delivering a good PC gaming experience in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, GTA 5, Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield, and other top games today in 2023

Navigate this feature quickly PC gaming never changes. Sure as night follows day, elite PC gaming hardware will, often within just a few months of release, be dethroned by something even faster and more powerful. It may, if a PC gamer is lucky, take more than a year to happen. But one thing is certain, […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 player chucks a magic mace on Shadowheart, gets one-shot by her clone, then realises hours later they paid 13,000 gold for the privilege

Way back in August, a Baldur’s Gate 3 player managed to one-shot the final boss of Act 2 by using a mace that deals damage based on how much gold the target has, doing so by reverse-pickpocketing 15,000 sword coast smackeroons into Ketheric Thorm‘s pocket. Fast-forward to the present day, and it seems like someone […]

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‘There’s almost nobody left’: CEO of Baldur’s Gate 3 dev Swen Vincke says the D&D team he initially worked with is gone, due to Hasbro layoffs

Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke has taken to Twitter today and—in a thread celebrating both Baldur’s Gate 3’s numerous awards and runaway success—mentions the recent layoffs occurring at Dungeons & Dragons. He reveals that, “of the people who were in the original meeting room, there’s almost nobody left.” (Image credit: @LarAtLarian on Twitter/X.) For context, […]

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Hasbro’s 1,100 layoffs have hit D&D and Magic: The Gathering hard, as a growing list of staff announce their departures

Earlier this week, Hasbro announced that it would be laying off approximately 1,100 employees two weeks before Christmas, as per an internal memo. At the time, I pointed out that the memo announced “the majority of the notifications will happen over the next six months, with the balance occurring over the next year.” While it […]

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If you’re feeling bad about dying in Baldur’s Gate 3’s Honour Mode, don’t worry—this speedrunner who beat it in under 40 minutes is about to make you feel way worse

Baldur’s Gate 3 has had a pretty active speedrun community, which shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone familiar enough with its more immersive-sim elements. There’s the vaunted sex% speedrun, the any% speedrun which focuses on making Gale blow up as quickly as possible, and the “any% all acts” speedrun. Spoilers ahead, of course. So, […]

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How in Avernus did I totally miss this secret treasure-stuffed shortcut to the Underdark in Act 1 of Baldur’s Gate 3 no less than seven times?

I’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 a lot now. And, let me tell you, I’ve played through Act 1 more times than a lot. I just can’t help creating new characters! This restart-itus has become even worse recently, too, thanks to me delving into the world of Baldur’s Gate 3 cosmetic mods, which are letting me […]

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A timeline of PC Gamer’s favourite Baldur’s Gate 3 secrets and rare dialogues—from bad tattoos to vampire tantrums

Baldur’s Gate 3 is an absurd game—and I mean that as a compliment. There’s been plenty of story wonkiness in need of hotfixes and adjustment (like a very horny Gale) the fact this thing shipped with a mostly-functional beginning, middle, and end is a miracle. There’s so much dang choice. You can be a massive […]

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Larian’s dropped some more Baldur’s Gate 3 stats, and at least 33% of you have a lot of explaining to do

Larian Studios collects a lot of data—as plenty of studios do—about their player’s habits in-game, and Baldur’s Gate 3 is no exception. For example, it shared the game’s most-played multiclasses back in September, leading to some interesting insights about how a strong character theme wins out over min-maxing power. Well, it’s time to look at […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 tool discovers there’s around 1,888 characters with dialogue in the game—though ‘justice for Karlach was actually the main reason’ it was made

Baldur’s Gate 3 has a lot of words—and even ‘a lot of words’ is a major understatement. In a Steam post before the game’s release, it was revealed the game’s total script is about 2 million words long. For context, all five books in the current Game of Thrones series add up to about 1.7 […]

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I think Larian really did sneak schlong physics into Baldur’s Gate 3 without telling anybody

The latest patch of Baldur’s Gate 3 has a lot of quality-of-life updates. It has a lovely little epilogue, a gnarly new honour mode that’s been giving Ted Litchfield spikes in his blood pressure, among many other tune-ups and fixes. And uh, schlong physics. Did we mention the schlong physics? Because Larian sure didn’t. I’d […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3’s new Legendary Actions just made its honour mode bosses way harder than you think, and I can prove it with D&D science

Baldur’s Gate 3’s latest patch added two whole new difficulty modes. Honour, a sort of pseudo-permadeath run, and Custom, which lets you fiddle around with rulesets to your heart’s content. One thing that had alarm bells ringing in my head, however, was this line from the patch notes:  “[Honour mode] introduces over 30 new tweaks […]

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My Baldur’s Gate 3 character creation just leveled up thanks to these three great cosmetic mod upgrades

I think it was on my 17th character creation session that I decided it was time to venture forth into the territory of Baldur’s Gate 3 mods. Larian Studios has done a truly fantastic job with Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creation system, letting you build a whole host of adventurers to tackle the game’s epic […]

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Baldur’s Gate 3 colossal new patch adds a playable epilogue set six months after the game ends with 3,589 new lines of dialogue, 2 new difficulty modes, and I’m running out of headline space

Baldur’s Gate 3‘s latest patch has punished me specifically. For context, literally not more than (checks watch) three hours ago, I wrote and published this sentence in a news story about Patch 5: “I’ve learned to stop being surprised at how massive these patch notes are, or how elaborate new cutscenes can be”. Like a […]

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I’ve taken my Baldur’s Gate 3 character creation to an even higher level thanks to these three great cosmetic mods

I think it was on my 17th character creation session that I decided it was time to venture forth into the territory of Baldur’s Gate 3 mods. Larian Studios has done a truly fantastic job with Baldur’s Gate 3’s character creation system, letting you build a whole host of adventurers to tackle the game’s epic […]

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It looks like the next Baldur’s Gate 3 patch will update the game’s ending—also, Withers says ‘fun is mandatory’ and I’m scared

Patch 5 of Baldur’s Gate 3 is just around the corner. It’s been promised to arrive ‘later this week’, alongside an announced fix for a bug that was breaking the game because it was thinking about your crimes too much. Now, thanks to a festive tweet by Larian Studios, we can also expect updates to […]

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