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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."

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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.

PC Gamer

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?

GamesRadar

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?

PC Gamer

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.

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."

GamesRadar

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"

GamesRadar

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"

GamesRadar

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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