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The wild successes of Helldivers 2 and Baldur's Gate 3 send a clear message: Let devs cook

The studios behind these mega hits spent more than a decade iterating on their favorite design ideas until they went supernova.

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German government wants games like Baldur's Gate 3 to 'also go on to be developed in Germany'

Germany started giving out federal grants in 2020 to "achieve international competitiveness" in game development.

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Skyrim's been out for 13 years, but players are still being surprised by the fact that NPCs die if you steal their hearts

I heard they die if you chop their heads off, too

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After 10 million sales and record-breaking critical acclaim, Baldur's Gate 3 CEO explains the secret to the RPG's success: "Treat your players as you would like to be treated"

"We had the best marketing campaign in the world, which was our players talking about it"

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Baldur's Gate 3's next patch is going to start rolling out its official mod tools so you can 'overhaul Baldur's Gate 3 into the weird nightmare realm of your dreams'

Goku Approves.

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Instead of making Baldur's Gate 4, Larian is working on 2 new projects based on its own IPs, and CEO Swen Vincke reckons it'll result in the studio's 'best work ever'

"I get excited like a kid watching the key imagery."

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Even though it's not Baldur's Gate 4, Larian's next RPG "will be our best work ever" says 'excited' Baldur's Gate 3 director

"It’s hype because it really looks and feels good”

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Hasbro wants to make another Baldur's Gate sequel but it's early days yet: 'We certainly hope that it's not another 25 years'

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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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