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Baldur's Gate 3 has changed so much in 2024 that I wish the RPG it could be my GOTY again this year

Year in Review | Few game developers prioritize player agency quite like Larian Studios, and it's one of BG3's secrets to success

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Black Myth: Wukong boss is bummed out about not winning Game of the Year at The Game Awards, but has high hopes for the future of the Chinese game industry

Game Science really wanted to win top honors at the 2024 Game Awards.

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Larian brings back the Baldur's Gate 3 advent calendar to tease its next game

It's gonna be so big!

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke calls out industry layoffs, "short-sighted" decisions, "arbitrary sales targets," and more in his latest Game Awards speech: "Change is coming"

Swen Vincke says the next Game of the Year winners will be developers who are "driven by idealism"

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Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry at The Game Awards

Vincke returned to The Game Awards to share the secret formula of running a successful studio: "It's stupidly simple, but it keeps on getting lost."

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke teases that Larian has been "buzzing with all the new exciting stuff" while the post-launch teams have been hard at work on the RPG's big updates

Not Baldur's Gate 4, but still exciting

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How Baldur's Gate 3 Turned Larian Studios Into A $447 Million Powerhouse

Larian Studios reported 427M euros revenue and 249M euros profit in 2023, driven by Baldur's Gate 3 sales of around 15 million copies.

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After losing money in 2022, Larian raked in a whopping $260 million profit of Baldur's bucks in 2023

€249 million, or $259,891,260 at the time of writing, to be precise.

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Baldur's Gate 3 console players are now limited to 100 mods per save—and probably won't have unfettered access to big naturals Withers like we do on PC

"We're actually hitting the limits of how many mods can be active while still keeping Baldur's Gate 3 stable."

PC Gamer

I desperately hope Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium inspire more RPG devs to reject the traditional drip, drip, drip of DLC and expansions

Playing finished games? It'll never catch on.

PC Gamer

"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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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"

GamesRadar

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

PC Gamer

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.

GamesRadar

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

PC Gamer

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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