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After winning every major Game of the Year award in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is now cleaning up in 2024 too

Larian's hit RPG claimed five wins at the 2024 BAFTA awards, including Best Game.

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Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'

"We should be humbled by this period. It doesn't feel like we're humbled by this period as an industry."

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Cyberpunk's quest director says CD Projekt Red has experimented with generative AI, but there's still a 'gigantic, really long way to go' before AI NPCs are as good as scripted characters

"The gap in quality, specifically, is huge. It's like a canyon," says Pawel Sasko.

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After Baldur's Gate 3's unexpected success, Larian boss says the studio is "good for quite a number of years"

No layoffs or concerns in the studio's immediate future

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Filled with ideas for what's next, Baldur's Gate 3 developer has "two games that we want to make" and "lots of concepts"

The end of Baldur's Gate 3 doesn't mean the end of Larian Studios' big ambitions

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Baldur's Gate 3 has at least 24 ways Shadowheart can hurl the main MacGuffin at you as part of Larian's New Vegas-Style 'n+1' system for players who ignore the plot: 'It might be even more'

Ever done a "kill everything" run of a sprawling RPG? This one's for you.

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Larian is working on expanded "evil endings" for Baldur's Gate 3: "I've seen some of them. They're really evil"

"Evil players will be satisfied"

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Larian Studios' Swen Vincke does see potential uses for AI, but: 'We're hiring writers, not having ChatGPT write their dialogues'

Need more work done? Hire more people.

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Baldur's Gate 3's director thinks AI is "a tool that we use to help us do things faster" but doesn't think "it'll ever replace a creative side" of development

Swen Vincke has shared his thoughts on AI

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Larian was "thinking about" Baldur's Gate 4, but D&D 5E wouldn't work with "all these ideas of new combat that we wanted to try out"

"There were a lot of constraints in making D&D, and the 5th Edition is not an easy system to put into a video game"

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Once upon a time Baldur's Gate 3 let you recruit JK Simmons to your side, before Larian snipped it along with a visit to the series' origins

In a parallel universe Ketheric Thorm and I are buying snow cones in Candlekeep.

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Baldur's Gate 3 cut content includes a nod to the original RPG, as well as a surprising villainous companion

Several locations were cut from Baldur's Gate 3

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Larian's saying goodbye to Baldur's Gate 3 by giving us some 'really evil' endings

Even though the studio is planning to move on to new things, it's not done with BG3 yet.

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Larian CEO has been 'reading the Reddit threads' and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn't the reason Baldur's Gate 3 is finished

Swen Vincke says Larian just wanted to move on.

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Writing Baldur's Gate 3 was "the honor of a lifetime," but Larian's new writing director is "so excited for what comes next"

Larian's heading in a new direction

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Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tiefling

Which perhaps would have made him too devilish a rascal.

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss explains there's no bad blood with D&D license owner amid split: "WOTC is not to blame for us taking a different direction"

Larian and Wizards of the Coast apparently had a good working relationship

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Baldur's Gate 3 mod tools won't be as extensive as Divinity's: 'We're not a tools company,' says Swen Vincke

The cross-platform mod support is coming "in the near future," the Larian CEO hopes.

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Swen Vincke says your Baldur's Gate 3 crushes 'now belong to Wizards of the Coast' as the studio leaves D&D behind, prompting a collective nervous gulp

Things will be alright… won't they?

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Baldur's Gate 3's director scrapped its DLC, and the reaction of Larian devs shows it was the right call: "I saw so many elated faces"

Swen Vincke says DLC felt more like an obligation than a passion

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Larian CEO Swen Vincke accepts Baldur's Gate 3's latest award by blasting corporate 'greed' devastating devs: 'I've been fighting with publishers my whole life, and I keep on seeing the same mistakes'

Vincke joins a chorus of devs lamenting the state of the industry at this year's GDC.

Evening Standard

Baldur’s Gate 3 DLC scrapped as Larian moves on from Dungeons & Dragons

“It was a story with a beginning, middle and an end, and it doesn’t need more,” the popular game’s director said

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Baldur's Gate 3's Swen Vincke says the hit D&D RPG will still get updates like mod support and new ending cinematics, just not "new content"

"It’s not easy for us to say goodbye to them but we also knew from the get-go we’d have to one day"

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss says today's technology cannot handle his "very big RPG that will dwarf them all," hopes the PS6 generation "is gonna bring us closer"

Larian's already working on a new game that builds on the foundations of Baldur's Gate 3, but that's not even the big one

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