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"After all the chatter" about Baldur's Gate and Dragon Age, Baldur's Gate 3 director hints he's "very curious" to play The Veilguard - and he wasted no time on the download

Swen Vincke has an appointment with Solas

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing chief calls out Ubisoft's 'broken strategy': If gamers need to get used to not owning games, 'developers must get used to not having jobs'

Prince of Persia: The Lost Throne was a critical hit but didn't sell very well, and Michael Douse thinks that's entirely Ubisoft's fault.

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Baldur's Gate 3 holds up shockingly well in first person—so well, in fact, that Larian head Swen Vincke's been gobsmacked by his own game: 'Just look at it'

Eyes-sometric view.

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Baldur's Gate 3 looks like a totally different RPG with a first-person camera mod, and it's so cool that Larian lead Swen Vincke says "I want to play this"

First-person AND WASD controls?

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "I am aware of the $22,000 sex doll" of his character: "I have some thoughts"

"You do you, man"

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke catches sight of the RPG community's most lewd creation yet, a "$20,000 life-sized Astarion sex doll"

It's certainly a sight to behold

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Larian boss Swen Vincke cruelly hints at a 2029 release for the studio's next game, only to yoink it away: 'It was just a joke'

Why you gotta play us this way, Swen?

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Baldur's Gate 3 studio wanted to make 2 RPGs at once, but its devs "got swallowed by the ambitions of the one we want to release first"

Making 2 games at once is pretty much as hard as it sounds

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs love the Ultima RPGs, and boss Swen Vincke says "never say never" on Larian reviving the series

So you're saying there's a chance

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PC Gamer magazine's new issue, featuring a special collectible lenticular cover, is on sale now: Planet Coaster 2

Plus: Civilization 7, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Spectre Divide, Black Desert Online, Baldur's Gate 3, Tactical Breach Wizards, and much more!

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Just a few days in and people have already installed millions of mods for Baldur's Gate 3

"Modding is pretty big"

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Baldur's Gate 3's official mod support prompts over "a million mods installed in less than 24 hours," from new races to fresh XP cheats

Patch 7 opened up a whole new can of worms

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At PAX West, perennial mad lad Swen Vincke once again said Baldur's Gate 3 was somehow going to be even bigger: 'In our heads, we were going to have so many more regions to make'

Our families outside of Faerûn appreciate the downsizing.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director was shocked that people dubbed the RPG a Divinity: Original Sin 2 "rip-off" before launch: "I got a call from my mother who said 'What have you done?'"

Swen Vincke explains that it's only because the team used the same as engine as DOS2

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Larian looked to popular homebrew D&D rules for Baldur's Gate 3: 'We were like—okay, we're not crazy, some people do it, so maybe we can try it as well'

"We literally went through forums looking for homebrew rules."

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Larian Studios explain how the infamous bear scene changed perceptions toward Baldur's Gate 3: "We got banned on TikTok!"

"We have to talk about the bear in the room"

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Baldur's Gate 3 director turned his back on RTS for RPG at the start of his career - just before the strategy game boom that brought us StarCraft, Homeworld, and Age of Empires

Swen Vincke thought "RTS was not something people were going to be interested in"

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss says he was a World of Warcraft fiend, wonders if his son has a "big game addiction" because his parents were hooked on the MMO "through the entire pregnancy"

A rare hereditary condition

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Divinity: Original Sin is still the "highlight" of Baldur's Gate 3 director's career because it let Larian Studios "start doing the things we really want"

Swen Vincke reveals his favorite child

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Baldur's Gate 3 director was somehow "afraid the game was going to be too short," but like Elden Ring's Hidetaka Miyazaki is "very bad at judging the length of our games"

"You'd be surprised to know we actually had many more regions we planned"

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As Veilguard hype builds, Larian boss says "I was in love with Morrigan in Dragon Age" and suddenly I understand why Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with bad girls

Lae'zel and Shadowheart suddenly make so much more sense

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Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting: 'I've notoriously always been bad at judging the length of our games'

There was once intended to be a second, older Moonrise Tower in Baldur's Gate 3 that you'd also explore, but "the game was getting too big, and so we had to cut that out."

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Baldur's Gate 3's iconic Moonrise Towers was almost twice its final size, but director Swen Vincke says "the game was getting too big so we had to cut that"

Moonrise Towers was once very literally two towers

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The lead writer of Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge was extremely squeamish at first, which shows you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it

"It desensitised me to everything."

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Somehow, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done winning yet: It's just claimed the most prestigious award for science fiction and fantasy writing

Yup, Baldur's Gate 3 won a Hugo Award. That has to be the last one, right?

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