Thanks to Larian itself and modders, Baldur's Gate 3 keeps getting new bits added to it, because clearly the absolutely huge base game hasn't been enough to totally eat up the free time of hardcore DnD partiers.
]]>Larian has put out Baldur's Gate 3's last big community update of 2024, and it brings some nice news. Registration's now open for the stress test of Patch 8 that's set to take place early next year, so you you can throw your username in the hat if you wish.
]]>No, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios isn't quite ready to show off its next game just yet, but it does have a little Advent calendar for you to get through at least.
]]>Fallout: London, the massive Fallout 4 mod that's recently gained some pretty stiff competition in the 'cool radiation-themed things that people love, but suffered from some gnarly launch bugs' department thanks to Stalker 2, featured some really interesting cameos.
]]>Obsidian Entertainment's latest RPG Avowed is almost here, and one of the devs behind it says he's never felt more confident in a game like this one.
]]>It's not like most people are ready to move on, but Baldur's Gate 3 is getting even more content next year, and it's the kind of stuff that will make most diehard fans roll an eleventh playthrough. Meanwhile, I've yet to finish my first one.
]]>Dragon Age: The Veilguard's a game about you and a group of different people - weirdo mates, if we're honest - doing a fantasy thing. Baldur's Gate 3 is a slightly different game about you and a group of different people - weirdo mates, if we're honest - doing a fantasy thing. And now, thanks to a modder, you can combine the two a bit by giving your Rook some facial ink.
]]>We all know Baldur's Gate 3's mods have proven pretty popular since official support for them was added by Larian with Patch 7. The developer's gone out of its way to tell us just that, even letting us know just who we need to thank for contributing.
]]>Calling all Baldur's Gate 3 mod lovers on console, you should probably start uninstalling them, as an incoming hotfix will render your saves unplayable.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 might soon have some company in terms of cool Larian-developed RPGs with a dedicated versions for the big two current-gen consoles - the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. That's because Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition has just gotten fresh ratings for both of those video game playing boxes.
]]>There've been a lot of cool custom class mods released for Baldur's Gate 3 since it came out, no matter whether you want something pretty standard that just doesn't happen to be in the base game, or something that comes from the utterly bizarre cauldron of your own DnD exploits. One of the latest to arrive is defintely on the weirder side - allowing you to play as a duo by bringing along an understudy who shares your turn.
]]>You know how Baldur's Gate 3's mods were proving pretty popular since Patch 7 brought them to everyone? Well, that's not slowed down, as Larian's just revealed that 50 million have now been downloaded by players across all platforms since that point.
]]>We're gradually learning more and more about the bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors earlier this month, with the creative director behind Longdue having now offered a bit more info on how it plans to approach its upcoming game.
]]>Bonjour, Baldur's Gate 3's getting a nice new hotfix for all platforms today, October 16, and as you'd expect for the first one to drop since Patch 7 brought mods to everyone, it's got a lot of fixes that should help those who're keen to - or have already - unleashed a big load (order) of stuff on their game.
]]>If you think you're in love with Astarion, think again, as one Baldur's Gate 3 fan apparently spent $20,000 on a sex doll.
]]>Larian recently introduced official mod support to Baldur's Gate 3, and it turns out a huge number of players are using them.
]]>Having already rocked the worlds of those on PC, Baldur's Gate 3's uber-beefy Patch 7 has now arrived on console and Mac, bringing with it that huge array of changes and additions - including mods. Larian's celebrated the latter by releasing another of its great little animated shorts, and urging you to kick off by slapping a hocus-pocus-infused thong in your load order.
]]>As part of the explosion in interesting and advanced Baldur's Gate 3 modding projects that have popped up since Larian unleashed the official toolkit, one modder's busy swapping out the game's turn-based fights for real-time ones. After originally being shared in pretty basic form, their work now features both a working pause button and the ability to get your party involved in these frenetic skirmishes.
]]>Not long after Larian released its official modding toolkit for Baldur's Gate 3, it took next to no time for modders to find out how to unlock extra functions that've helped get the ball rolling on the likes of custom maps and possibly full custom campaigns further down the line. Using a modified version of those official tools, one modder's now put together what looks to be one of the game's first fully-custom quests.
]]>Not long after Larian released its official modding toolkit for Baldur's Gate 3, it took next to no time for modders to find out how to unlock a developer mode in it that gives folks the chance to try a bunch of advanced stuff. Now, one modder's busy swapping out the game's turn-based fights for real-time ones, and they're making some decent progress so far.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3, specifically the bits Wyll is involved in or can be present for, lie ahead.
]]>Not long after Larian released its official modding toolkit for Baldur's Gate 3, it took next to no time for one modder to find out how to unlock a developer mode in it that gives folks to do things like creating custom levels. Now, almost as quickly, the early looks at the first few levels that modders have been working on are starting to pop up, including a version of Avernus.
]]>Warning: Major Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 Dark Urge playthroughs lie ahead.
]]>Look, modders are like sand. Let me explain. I mean that as a compliment - they get everywhere, and often do it faster than you'd ever think. Take, for example, the modder who's already managed to unearth and unlock a developer mode in Baldur's Gate 3's brand new official modding tools, which could soon make custom levels a reality.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7 finally added in mod support, and safe to say, it's quickly proven popular amongst players.
]]>Since Baldur's Gate 3's uber-beefy Patch 7 arrived yesterday, folks on PC have naturally delved in to sapmple all of its new features - especially those extra evil endings. As it turns out, some of them are the kind of emotional rollercoaster not even the most hardened Durge can endure without feeling something. That said, the biggest heartbreak has been saved for folks who love a certain bard.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3's uber-beefy Patch 7 has just arrived for PC bringing with it enough changes to match the word count of some University dissertations. However, if you're hoping to delve into it on console or Mac, you'll have to wait just a little bit longer - until October to be exact - in order to play it.
]]>WAKE UP! Baldur's Gate 3's uber-beefy Patch 7 is finally here, bringing with it all of the stuff Larian had previously announced or teased - such as those extra evil endings and mod support - as part of its total of "over 1,000 fixes and improvements".
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 does a lot to let you get up close and personal with some, er, bizarre stuff. You know the kind of thing I'm talking about, you DnDeviant. As it turns out, one of those encounters ended up how it is due Larian electing to violate its own camera distance guidelines, after going for the cinematic conversations we know and love over more Bethesda-style first person dialogue exchanges.
]]>After many months of waiting, it sounds like Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 is finally coming next week.
]]>Everyone stay calm, this is a story about the economic realities of video games and how that affects companies and consumers.
]]>What's your favoutite kind of biscuit? Rich Tea? Boubons? Custard Creams? Well, it's seems Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian's staff are partial to Oreos, to the point where a cinematic artist stroking a packet of them was apparently used a reference for the tentacle stroking animation from, er, that scene with you and the Emperor.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 is a big game that's received plenty of free content post release, and yet the developer's CEO was worried it would be too short.
]]>Team FOLON, Fallout: London’s creators, have long been open about their desire for people to create mods that put fresh twists on or add stuff to their massive mod, and they’ve now done a bit of leading by example in that regard, with a mod that injects some chaos into your playthrough via Baldur's Gate 3-esque dice rolls.
]]>The venn diagram of Magic the Gathering fans and Baldur's Gate 3 fans will probably want to check out the very good, and potentially titillating, Astarion cards.
]]>The infinite debate about what is and isn't an immersive sim continues to rage on, as one of the co-creators of Dishonored says he thinks Skyrim is one.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios is hard at work on its next title, but the hit RPG is getting in the way of fresh ideas.
]]>UPDATE (25/07/24, 4:10 PM BST): Larian has confirmed that Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 Closed Beta is now live on Steam.
]]>We've just gotten a fresh update from Larian on Baldur's Gate 3's next big update, Patch 7, which is set to arrive in September. It seems like things are still very much on track for then, with the developer having teased a bunch more stuff that it'll include or facilitate, as well as announcing that PC players can now register for a chance to playtest it via a closed beta.
]]>This is not a drill. UK political memes look set to inflitrate the Fallout universe via Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. Having already confirmed some pretty huge names voice acting-wise, the mod's Project Lead now looks to be suggesting a former MP known for yelling things is also on that list.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has shared the origins of that viral bear sex scene that helped put the already popular RPG on everyone's radar.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian is pulling together its leads for a big summit "to discuss lift off", we assume on the studio's next couple of games. Where? Well in the same place it met to decide how to finish off BG3, because revisiting the same location a bunch of times in order to grind XP, find stuff you missed, or just admire the scenery again is something RPG folks are just hardwired to do.
]]>You're all probably quite desperate to smooch Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion in Stardew Valley, and hopefully by the end of the year you'll be able to.
]]>“I was at a point where I didn't know what game to play and Baldur’s Gate 3 came to mind,” modder Hippp0o tells me.
]]>Modders add a lot of cool stuff to their various games of choice, and this might be one of the coolest additions I've seen for any game in a while. A relatively new Baldur's Gate 3 mod casually gives the RPG an entire new mode, which allows you and your party to battle through waves of foes roguelike-style.
]]>Dragon Age: The Veilguard (God, I really dislike that title change) is almost here, finally. After an early scare because of a slightly confusing first trailer, that gameplay demo quelled many of our worries, but can it really escape Baldur's Gate 3's shadow?
]]>Baldur's Gate 3's next big update, Patch 7, is set to arrive in September, bringing with it the previously teased extra evil endings and official modding tools. Between now and then, the latter'll be undergoing a series of tests, with the first of those kicking off today.
]]>Crunch is a widespread issue across the games industry, and as beloved as Larian Studios is, even it had to do some on Baldur's Gate 3.
]]>Larian Studios isn't making the next Baldur's Gate, but the third game's narrative director doesn't care what it's like, as long as it's not made just for profit.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has opened up a new studio in the Polish city of Warsaw. Why? Well, it's causally expanding its influence as it "ramps up" development on "two very ambitious RPGs" that we're definitely not all getting quite hyped up about.
]]>Love Stardew Valley and Baldur's Gate 3? You might be interested in this currently in-development mod that brings Astarian and more to Pelican Town.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future. We know that. It's, uh, far too busy teasing the mysterious new things it is actually working on, and casually announcing that more stuff's going to be added to BG3 soon.
]]>So, we've all had time to come to terms with the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future, even if those things might once have been on the cards. The good news is that Wizards of the Coast, which controls the IP, already looks to be in talks with folks who aren't Larian about what the next game in the series might look like.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 dev Larian definitely isn't making a sequel, but whatever its next game is, it will definitely go down the early access route.
]]>Hello there again, Baldur's Gate 3 people. How are your lives going? Hold on, it'll have to wait, there's a newly released hotfix just arrived, and it does things, as per. This time, its stopping your gang's chill time from being prevented by a naughty walking brain.
]]>The other day — and don't worry, I've already secured permission to tell this story — I observed one of VG247's own, in a moment of ardour during a discussion of the wondrous merits of Dragon's Dogma 2, to utter the following statement: "F**k Baldur's Gate 3."
]]>Hello there, Baldur's Gate 3 people. We're doing this dance again. There's a newly released hotfix, and it does things. What things? Well, for one, it fixes a bunch of exploits involving containers that you'd previously been able to use to defraud the game's merchants.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3's developers did a whole bunch of planning to ensure the player couldn't totally ruin the game's story if they randomly decided to murder every single NPC, but not even Swen Vincke predicted that speedrunners would literally bounce through the entire thing.
]]>Hi there. It’s Friday afternoon, everyone's being very loud about Dragon’s Dogma 2 and I’m about to tell you about something that’s kinda disgusting. It’s about Stardew Valley. People are racing to drink mayonnaise in it as fast as they can.
]]>So, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future. It’s ok, stop crying. As it turns out, CEO Swen Vincke was once on board with some of those ideas, but now he’s got his eyes on creating "a very big RPG that will rule them all", well, as soon as the tech it’ll need is actually a thing.
]]>Larian will not be working on Baldur's Gate 4, or any expansions for Baldur's Gate 3, it has just been revealed.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has just hosted a bombshell Baldur's Gate 3 talk at GDC 2023, peeling back the curtain at the development process of the GDCA game of the year winner. One of the secrets he spilt was that at one point during early development, the team wanted there to be multiple dungeons masters narrating the game... Including Matt Mercer.
]]>Baldur's Gate 3 has taken the Game of the Year award at the 2024 Games Developer Choice Awards, beating out Cocoon, Dredge, Marvel's Spiderman 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.
]]>Do you like Baldur's Gate 3? Do you also like Vampire Survivors? Well, Larian’s CEO has brought up the idea of a crossover between the two, via a poll that I think is a bit disgraceful as far as polls go.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead.
]]>In the latter half of Baldur's Gate 3, as you enter the outskirts of the city of Baldur’s Gate at the start of Act 3, your journey towards defeating the Absolute is far from finished. Just one of the many interconnected side quests you have yet to discover sees you investigate the suspicious toys and fireworks coming out of Arfur Gregorio’s workshop.
]]>Underneath Rivington in Baldur's Gate 3, a bit of spelunking sees your party interrupt a standoff on a beach next to the city’s bay. Cutthroats from the thieves’ guild are facing off against followers of the mysterious Stone Lord for control of an illicit shipment coming in from the coast.
]]>Outside of its sprawling main story, Baldur's Gate 3 is home to a huge variety of side quests and smaller interactions. One of the most mysterious sees you bringing a Sentient Amulet with the spirit of a Monk inside back to see its lost family.
]]>After solving the start of the mystery in Rivington, your work investigating the murders in Baldur's Gate 3 is far from over.
]]>Even as the Cult of the Absolute threatens to destroy the city at the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, its unsuspecting citizens can still enjoy the magical Circus of the Last Days, for a little while, at least.
]]>The magical world of Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with mysteries, but throughout the game your party is also tasked with plenty of more down-to-earth investigations. At the Open Hand Temple in Rivington, Father Lorgan has been murdered.
]]>Underneath the bustling city of Baldur’s Gate lies a sleeping dragon, waiting to be called upon to help in the climactic battle at the end of Baldur's Gate 3. But if you’re going to count the Wyrm amongst your growing roster of allies, then you will need to complete the cunning Wyrmway puzzles first.
]]>Across the deep and varied sidestories of Baldur's Gate 3, numerous characters reappear in new places with new quests to complete. But when you reach the Lower City, one character you might not have been expecting to meet back up with is Omeluum, the enlightened Mind-flayer who sent you to the Arcane Tower in the Underdark.
]]>Deep underwater, off the coast of the city of Baldur’s Gate, lies the Iron Throne prison, a mechanical marvel constructed at the behest of Lord Enver Gortash to house his most valuable prisoners.
]]>At the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, the devious Lord Gortash has overtaken the city of Baldur’s Gate, installing himself as Archduke in the chaos surrounding the impending invasion of the Absolute.
]]>In Baldur's Gate 3, you might be the world’s greatest hope to stop the Cult of the Absolute, but that doesn’t stop you from turning sleuth on multiple occasions throughout your adventure.
]]>As you finally reach the walled city in Baldur's Gate 3, many of the game’s long-running quests reach their climax. One such quest is Shadowheart’s storyline, which takes you to the House of Grief, a Sharran temple using a funeral parlour as a front.
]]>Of all the wicked characters you meet throughout Baldur's Gate 3, few are as evil as the vampire lord Cazador Szarr. With Astarion in tow, once you reach the Lower City it’s time to face Cazador head on and put a stop to his legacy of villainy.
]]>Despite the world-altering stakes of your main quest in Baldur's Gate 3, your party can still choose to lend a hand wherever it’s needed. So when a woman named Lora desperately needs help to find Vanra, her missing daughter, you can offer to step up and aid with her search.
]]>One of the most mysterious and memorable characters in all of Baldur's Gate 3 is the charismatic cambion Raphael. From his magical manor, the House of Hope, he pulls the strings of mortals’ lives from the shadows, always finding a way to strike a deal that benefits him in the end.
]]>As a recurring character throughout Baldur's Gate 3, Mol, the entrepreneurial leader of a gang of tiefling children you first meet in the Druids’ Grove, quickly ingratiates herself in with your party.
]]>After teaming up with the legendary Harper, Jaheira, in Baldur's Gate 3, she confides in you that her friend, the equally legendary Minsc of Rashemen is missing.
]]>At the intersection of two big quests in Baldur's Gate 3, your party is tasked with both finding the legendary hero Minsc of Rashemen for Jaheira and aiding the Underduke of the Thieves' Guild against the mysterious Stone Lord. The trail of both leads to a heist at the Counting House bank in the Lower City, where a trap has been laid to defeat the Stone Lord for good.
]]>The mysterious mage Lorroakan is one of the more enigmatic figures in Baldur's Gate 3. His reputation precedes him, both in posting a bounty to find the Nightsong and as a potential mentor to Rolan, the tiefling wizard you meet in the Druids’ Grove.
]]>Across the vast and intricate world of Baldur's Gate 3, some secrets you find early on in your adventure aren’t fully revealed until it’s almost at its end. In a Necromancer’s cellar in the Blighted Village, you find the eldritch Necromancy of Thay, an evil book filled with the kind of knowledge it’s best not to know.
]]>If you thought Baldur's Gate 3 was anywhere close to wrapping up when you reach the Lower City, you’ve got another thing coming. The labyrinthine streets and dark alleyways of the city are home to a huge and diverse array of secrets, including a magical vault inside of Sorcerous Sundries, full of powerful artefacts to plunder.
]]>When the Cult of the Absolute’s influence in Baldur's Gate 3 stretches to the capital’s peacekeepers, your mission to take them down often puts you on the wrong side of the law.
]]>One of the leaders of the Flaming Fists, Counsellor Florrick, is in trouble once again as your reach Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3.
]]>As you approach the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, you learn more and more about the enigmatic Emperor and their relationship with the wider city before you met. Then, once you reach the Lower City, they get in touch to let you know about their old hideout, filled with potentially useful items that could aid your mission.
]]>Around the South Span Gate in Baldur's Gate 3, you find one of the pillars of any thriving city: the post office. Head inside the Sword Coast Couriers and you’re asked to track down a sackload of missing letters, but it’s not immediately clear where you’re supposed to look.
]]>As you investigate the Shadow-cursed lands for a way to circumvent Ketheric Thorm’s immortality in Baldur's Gate 3, your search leads you to the Thorm mausoleum in the north of the town of Reithwin.
]]>After successfully saving the tieflings in the Druid Grove and Wulbren's Ironblood Gnomes from Grymforge in Baldur's Gate 3, the former will have made their way through the Shadow Cursed Lands and set up a temporary home at the Last Light Inn. Alas, you’ll soon learn that this journey didn’t go smoothly, as some of the tieflings have been captured and taken to Moonrise Towers.
]]>Ok, so another Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix arrived yesterday and, well, I’m sorry to say that it and its predecessor, hotfix 20, don’t seem to have marked an end to the string of little issues that've plagued poor Minthara. In fact, this latest update looks to have enacted a change to her romance arc that players are desperately trying to rationalise.
]]>The player's choice nominees for the BAFTA game awards have been announced, and feature a wall-to-wall roster of absolute bangers for the public to pick a champion from. As the last major video game awards show for 2023 heavy-hitters, this could be the last chance for some of these games to take home a trophy come April.
]]>Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead.
]]>If you weren’t aware, Larian is currently working on bringing mod support to Baldur's Gate 3, but it seems that - when it comes to mods - it's recently had to deal with some unpleasant behaviour that the game’s developers and community staff shouldn’t have to put up with from a few folks within the community.
]]>If you like the idea of playing Baldur's Gate 3 with mods - and why wouldn’t you, even if they can currently sometimes be a source of post-patch issues - then you’ll probably be glad to hear that Larian’s currently working on “a robust, cross-platform plan for [BG3] mod support” that it hopes to release later this year.
]]>If you’ve run into any weird or annoying issues when trying to buy or sell things in Baldur's Gate 3 following the arrival of Patch 6, have no fear, a small hotfix is here. And hopefully it should end your woes.
]]>The team behind Fallout: London has put out another update video, and it looks like this could well be the final one we get ahead of the huge mod’s release on April 23. Among the fresh info dropped as part of it was a rundown of some of the mod’s voice cast, which includes a name Baldur's Gate 3 fans will definitely be familiar with.
]]>Good news, people who like watching their Tav munch on the lips of Baldur's Gate 3’s gang of companions (we’re not judging btw), Patch 6 for the game is now live, following enough teases to kill someone.
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