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News Baldur's Gate 3's Anticipated Patch 3 Drops Next Week, on the Same Day as Cyberpunk 2077 2.0
Who likes RPGs?
Typical, isn't it? You wait weeks for a big update to come along, and then two arrive at once. As previously reported, Cyberpunk 2077's game-changing 2.0 patch arrives on the 21st September — and now we learn that it'll be joined by Patch 3 for Baldur's Gate 3. As the name suggests, this will be the third major update for the RPG...
Poll What Review Score Would You Give Baldur's Gate 3?
Open the gate
With the caveat that some of you reading this won't have finished Baldur's Gate 3 yet, we want to know what you think of the incredibly highly rated RPG. The PS5 version has been out for over a week now, and it still sits as one of the best reviewed games of... well, pretty much ever, regardless of platform. Indeed, we can vouch for...
News Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 Is Comparable to Ultra Settings on PC, But There's Room for Improvement
High-ish roll
In the not too distant past, some people would have called you mad for suggesting that CRPGs could work on consoles — but here we are. Baldur's Gate 3 is the latest example of the genre finding a comfortable home on PlayStation, and those eggheads over at Digital Foundry reckon it's a good fit on PS5. The report goes over all of the...
Poll Did You Buy Baldur's Gate 3?
We're in the gateway to hell
If you've been following Baldur's Gate 3 since its original announcement — and you had somehow always planned on a PlayStation release — then this day has been a long time coming. Larian Studios' celebrated RPG is out now on PS5, bringing one of the highest rated games... well, pretty much ever, to Sony's current-gen...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Is Now PS5's Highest Rated Game Ever
Earns a 97 on Metacritic
Baldur's Gate 3 is out now for PS5, and after bagging itself a Metacritic rating of 96 on PC, it's currently doing one point better on Sony's console. The PS5 version currently commands a 97 on the website, making it the highest-rated game on the system to date. The caveat, of course, is this is only based on nine reviews...
Review Baldur's Gate 3 (PS5) - One of the Greatest RPGs of Our Time
Larian siezes the RPG crown at swords-point
If any video game truly deserves the mildly ludicrous 'AAAA' moniker, it's Baldur's Gate 3. Larian Studios' latest is a roleplaying experience of the first order, a work of vanishing beauty made in the old ways to modern specifications. This third instalment in the long-dormant series effortlessly makes...
News PS5 Trophies for the Highest Rated Game of the Year Hit Sony's Servers
Baldur's Gate 3 is getting closer
Baldur’s Gate 3, currently the highest rated game of the year according to Metacritic, will launch on PS5 next week – and right on time, Trophies have started to populate Sony’s servers. The game is packing 56 gongs in total, with the Platinum likely to be coveted by RPG aficionados and PlayStation superfans...
News Baldur's Gate 3 DLC Is on the Cards at Larian Studios
Dev has done Definitive Editions in the past
Larian Studios has stated it's exploring the idea of releasing Baldur's Gate 3 DLC after the game has been "patched for a while" and the Belgian dev has taken a holiday. In a new interview with IGN, senior product manager Tom Butler said the following when asked about expansions: "We'll carry on patching...
News Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 Should Have Two Huge Patches Built-in for Launch
1,000+ fixes live now for PC version
Larian Studios has gone on record to say the PS5 version of Baldur's Gate 3 will feature complete parity with the current PC edition when it launches early next month, and the RPG's first patch shares a glimpse at the updates there is to look forward to. Available to scroll through on the official Baldur's Gate 3...
News Baldur's Gate 3's Accidental PS5 Console Exclusivity Truncated as Xbox Backtracks
Redmond firm pulls parity
Baldur’s Gate 3 will launch as a PS5 console exclusive early next month – but in a rare occurrence, there’s been no behind-the-scenes shenanigans from Sony to make that the case. The reason the game is coming to Sony’s system before the Xbox Series X|S has always been due to development issues with Microsoft’s...
Random Explosive Results of Baldur's Gate 3 Testing Revealed to Developer Larian's Delight
Tick, tick, boom
Baldur's Gate 3 is a reactive game, but not just in terms of narrative and choice. Some of its most exciting gameplay aspects come from developer Larian Studio's previous outing, Divinity: Original Sin 2, such as the explosive elemental reaction system, which might come as a surprise to more
News 'Shoulder's of Giants Stuff': Baldur's Gate 3 Writer Pays Tribute to BioWare's Immortal RPGs
Remember where you came from
In the shadow of Starfield, it seems like the Baldur's Gate 3 hype train might finally be beginning to slow, but its own legacy is just beginning. Larian Studios' success seems to have surprised even the developers themselves, with the studio's lead writer paying tribute to the giants upon whose shoulders they stood to...
News Larian Studios Unveils Baldur's Gate 3 Update Roadmap, 1,000+ Fixes and Tweaks Incoming
Plans to change how future patches are handled
Developer Larian Studios has revealed the short-term update roadmap for the monstrous RPG Baldur's Gate 3 on PC. This is relevant for the PlayStation faithful as the plan is for parity between the two platforms at launch and beyond. Larian Boss Swenn Vincke provided an update on X and, in keeping with...
News Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 Preload, Release Times Revealed as Console Launch Inches Closer
Time Stop, 9th level, Transmutation
Baldur's Gate 3's long-foretold console launch date inches ever closer, and in proof that a Time Stop spell cast on a critical 20 hasn't actually crossed over into our plane of existence, the meaty RPG's various preload times on PS5 have been revealed. Over on X, developer Larian Studios shared the times you...
Round Up Baldur's Gate 3 Reviews Rate It as One of the Best RPGs Ever Made
Sitting at a ridiculous 97 on Metacritic
It's felt like Baldur's Gate 3 would be a hit for quite some time, but we didn't quite expect it to have such a colossal impact. The highly anticipated RPG isn't out on PS5 until next month, but PC reviews, impressions, and reviews-in-progress are painting a frankly ridiculous picture. Indeed, on its current...
News Larian Studios Still Cooking the Ability to Change Baldur's Gate 3 Character Appearance
In hindsight, the mohawk was a bold choice
While the wait for Baldur's Gate 3 has been an interminable one, an advantage to having to endure a month of PC players tearing it apart is that aspects of the game that really need improving are being detected and actioned by developer Larian Studios. One quite baffling missing feature is the ability to...
News Larian Studios CEO Responds to 'Raised Standards' Concerns: 'Standards Die Every Day'
"In video games there's so much free space to explore, still, in the creative tree"
Baldur's Gate 3 represents a shift for AAA RPGs that's hard to put into words without sounding overly trite but needs must. If Breath of the Wild was an event horizon for exploration in open worlds, then BG3 does the same for depth and character choice in RPGs. It's...
News Baldur's Gate 3, Out on PS5 Next Month, Is Now Rated Higher Than the New Zelda
Tears for the fandom
Baldur’s Gate 3, the highly acclaimed RPG from Larian Studios, has taken The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom’s crown – and is currently the highest rated game of the year on Metacritic. It’s worth noting that reviews so far are only based on the PC version – it’s coming to the PS5 next month – and only 18...
News PS5 Release of Baldur's Gate 3 Will Mirror the PC Version at Launch and Beyond
Now we're talking
Larian Studios' month-long victory tour continues, with Baldur's Gate 3 earning accolades from players and critics to a frankly ridiculous extent on PC. Not content with humbly enjoying the lavish praise of fans and the jealous envy of competitors, the plucky outfit is again making promises that might sound insane from virtually...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Lord Swen Vincke Unprepared for How Completely Viral That Bear Scene Went
But he's glad it did
Larian Studios is currently enjoying the success of Baldur's Gate 3's launch on PC, which only came out last Friday, and promptly shattered records and defied expectations. If you exist on the internet, chances are you saw the headlines surrounding this game and a certain scene involving the druid Halsin, Wildshifted into be
News No, Baldur's Gate 3 Doesn't Have a New PS5 Release Date
Don't believe the PlayStation App's lies
For some mad reason, the official PlayStation mobile app has started sending out notifications to users about a "new launch date" for Baldur's Gate 3. We got the notification ourselves and scrambled to the PlayStation Store in order to check what was going on — and nothing's changed. At least, not yet! The...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Feast Continues, Cracks Steam's Top 10 Most Played Games List
Larian demands a worthy foe; FromSoftware, CDPR stand unbowed
Baldur's Gate 3's meteoric rise off the back of its PC launch alone continues unabated, breaking fresh ground by the hour and blowing minds by the second. The monstrous CRPG has been eating well, already swimming with exclusive company, heralded as one of the best video games ever made...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Pre-Orders Skyrocket on PS5 Following PC Launch
Against all odds
Baldur's Gate 3 has had a monstrous launch on PC, with its passage into this plane of existence so powerful Steam itself was made to shake. Unsurprisingly, the positive buzz around this one has been infectious, and PlayStation players are eager to get to grips with it, pushing the RPG to the top of pre-order charts in the largest...
News Larian Studios Pays Voice Actor to Make 'Sexy' Baldur's Gate 3 Sounds Using Hand, Mouth
So you can enjoy "your little perverted roleplays"
The horniest RPG since The Witcher 3 (or Cyberpunk 2077, it's a toss-up, really), Baldur's Gate 3 is all the rage right now, and no doubt your social media feed is flooded with images and footage of all kinds of fantastical escapades. Love it or leave it, players have come to expect sex in their...
News It's Party Time! Steam Groans Under the Strain of Baldur's Gate 3's PC Launch
To wait, or not to wait, *that* is the question
With the long-prophesied, potentially apocalyptic coming of Larian Studio's Baldur's Gate 3 (to PC), we mere mortals can only gaze in wonderment as Steam, Valve's monolithic (near-monopolistic) platform, buckles to contain the girthy game. The
News Baldur's Gate 3 Dev Larian Studios Has No Interest in Being Acquired
Fears over losing creative choice
Baldur's Gate 3 team Larian Studios isn't interested in being bought by the likes of Microsoft or Sony, as chief executive officer Swen Vincke feels the developer still has so much more to give. In a new interview with
News Baldur's Gate 3's Bear Sex Just the Tip of the 'Horny' Iceberg, Apparently
Bear necessities
Baldur's Gate 3 caused one hell of a stir last month when developer Larian Studios showed off a player romance scene involving a bear. Well, technically it was a druid who had transformed into a bear, but that was never going to stop the tidal wave of shock and awe headlines that flooded the internet following the presentation...
News Baldur's Gate 3 File Size Is Bloody Massive
Gonna need a bigger gate
Baldur's Gate 3 is set to be a truly huge RPG — especially when you take the sheer degree of replayability into account — and it looks like it's going to sport an equally huge file size. We only have the PC version to go off right now, but for most games, there usually isn't much of a difference on console. So, on PC,...
News Embrace the Mind Flayer Within Using Baldur's Gate 3's 'Hidden' Ilithid Skill Tree
Or, how to win friends and influence people
Much of the early plot of Baldur's Gate 3 will see your character dealing with an uninvited guest (an interdimensional tadpole), which is slowly turning you, specifically, into one of those most fearsome of all classic Dungeons & Dragons enemies: The Ilithid, better known as a "mind flayer". In its...
News Lady Dimitrescu Voice Actress Bringing Similarly Dominant Energy to Baldur's Gate 3 Antagonist
Keep your friends close, and your blades closer
Larian Studios' ludicrously epic Baldur's Gate 3 is so big that it needs three primary antagonists for players to contend with, its "unholy evil triumvirate". We've already met two of them, brought to life by a couple of the most brilliant actors of the age; Jason Is
News Larian Employed Intimacy Coordinators to Aid in Developing Baldur's Gate 3's Sex Scenes
We've come a long way since Commander Shepard's awkward fumblings
Sex is a part of life, and it's a part of Baldur's Gate, as well. Heck, it's part of the roleplaying experience at this point, expected even, with Mass Effect's randy Commander Shepard's legendary exploits causing a scandal in at least two separate dimensions. Considering that the two...
Dance with the one that brought you
While the focus is very much on Baldur's Gate 3 right now, developer Larian Studios has promised a return to its original fantasy universe, but after a well-earned break. The studio earned its spurs in the eyes of RPG fans with the Divinity: Original Sin series (mostly on PC), beginning something of a roleplaying...
Random Take 'Baldur's Day' Off, Stay Home and Play Baldur's Gate 3
A festivus for the rest of us
Imagine, if you will, Half-Life 3 is announced. Better, it will be developed by a best-in-class AAA studio. Not the original creators, mind, but the next best thing, and more appropriate, given the modern context and how much time has passed. That's kind of how momentous it feels to be an old-school RPG fan on the...
News Baldur's Gate 3's Narrative Is Structured Like a 'Spiderweb', with 17,000 Ending Permutations
It's all about the journey
Baldur's Gate 3 is shaping up to be such a gigantic RPG experience that it's starting to make other developers nervous, with much digital ink being spilt over concern fans will come to expect the "anomaly" it represents. As an officially licensed Dungeons & Dragons product (if you didn't know,
News Baldur's Gate 3's Viral Druid Sex Scene a Potential Factor in RPG's Ascent to Steam Top-Seller
Give the people what they want
Earlier this week, we brought you news of Larian's Studios Panel from Hell, where we gleaned a bunch of new information regarding the eagerly-anticipated RPG Baldur's Gate 3. We also got the infamous/legendary viral
News Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge Origin Makes Being Evil Sound So Deliciously Good
Few mortals ever glimpse what you're about to see
Players looking for an engrossing new roleplaying experience in 2023 are spoiled for choice. With Baldur's Gate 3, PlayStation players are getting a real doozy, however: the kind of deep, all-encompassing CRPG experience that was once the exclusive providence of PC gamers. Case in point: over the...
News Larian Studios Gets TikTok Ban for Bear-Form Druid Sex Scene in Baldur's Gate 3
To the cheers of rapturous fans
You might be surprised to learn that Baldur's Gate 3 is the kind of game in which you can have sexual relations with a druid shape-shifted into animal form, specifically, into that of a bear (a Grizzly, to our discerning eye). You shouldn't be, though, considering Commander Shepard's own amorous adventures; a decade...
News Comprehensive Baldur's Gate 3 Playthroughs Set to Last 200 Hours
75-100 hours for a normal campaign
Baldur's Gate 3 could last you the rest of the year if you really want it to, as Larian Studios has announced a playthrough that touches all the content in the game might last up to 200 hours. A standard, more mainline approach is supposed to last 75 to 100 hours, but in an interview with IGN, boss Swen Vincke said...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Delayed One Week on PS5, Runs at 60fps
More dialogue than The Lord of the Rings
If you own both a PS5 and an Xbox Series X, you'll now have quite the decision to make on 6th September 2023: do you play Baldur's Gate 3 or Starfield first? Larian Studios has announced that while its huge RPG is moving its release date up a month on PC, the PS5 version is being pushed back one week — to...
The weight of ages bearing down
Recreating the city of Baldur's Gate from the beloved CRPG of the same name is a Herculean task fraught with danger. It needs to be recognisable to venerable veterans of the 1998 classic and yet manage to conform to modern game design principles. With Baldur's Gate 3, developer Larian Studios describes the process as...
News Harry Potter, The Patriot Antagonist Rules Baldur's Gate 3 with an Iron Fist
Jason Isaacs plays Lord Enver Gortash
The long-anticipated day draws ever nearer as the release of Baldur's Gate 3, master-crafted by the wizards over at Larian Studios, looms on the horizon, launching on 31st August on PS5. We got a new trailer at Geoff Keighley's Summer Game Fest, showcasing iconic antagonist Jason Isaacs in his role as Lord Enver...
News Sony Has No Console Exclusivity Over Baldur's Gate 3
Update: Larian Studios releases full statement
Update: Following a complete kerfuffle on social media, Larian Studios has released a full statement on Baldur’s Gate 3’s targeting platforms, explaining there’s no exclusivity shenanigans occurring here at all. We’ve reproduced the statement in full below: Following yesterday’s PS5 and...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Deluxe, Collector's Editions Let You Play 72 Hours Early on PS5
Along with a bunch of other stuff, too
In what is fast becoming an industry staple, players that pick up either the Deluxe or Collector's Editions of just-announced-for-PS5 CRPG Baldur's Gate 3 will get access to the game three days early, from 28th August instead of the 31st August worldwide release. It's a tempting proposition. But what are a few...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Getting a PS5 Version, Out 31st August
Larian Studios back on PlayStation
Divinity: Original Sin developer Larian Studios has announced it'll be bringing Baldur's Gate 3 to PS5 alongside the PC version on 31st August 2023. You can see what it looks like in the trailer above, which also confirms J.K. Simmons has joined the voice cast as an antagonist. Various versions of the game will be...
News Baldur's Gate 3 PS5 Port Possible After the RPG's PC Launch
Make it happen
We've made it known that we hope Baldur's Gate 3 comes to consoles after its initial launch on PC and Google Stadia. The RPG from Larian Studios is shaping to be something pretty special, especially off the back of Divinity: Original Sin and its phenomenal sequel, and it would certainly be a shame to have to miss out on it. So, it's...
News Divinity: Original Sin, Baldurs Gate 3 Reveals Planned for Guerrilla Collective Event
Console content?
Larian Studios has made a name for itself in the console space over the past generation with Divinity: Original Sin and its excellent sequel, and the developer looks to be in pole position to replicate that success with Baldurs Gate 3. That's only confirmed to be releasing on PC and Google Stadia at the time of writing, although...
News Baldur's Gate 3 Is on Our PS5 Wishlist
Throw us a bone
After bringing two of the greatest RPGs of the last 10 years to PlayStation 4, Larian Studios has truly hit the big time. The developer made a name for itself with Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin II, but after taking up the reigns on the legendary Baldur's Gate franchise, a new set of expectations have been placed...
News Is the Divinity: Original Sin Dev Teasing Baldur's Gate 3?
Larian Studios is up to something
Update: Brian Fargo has retweeted Kotaku's report on Larian's teaser. If you're wondering who he is, he co-founded Interplay, the company that published the old Baldur's Gate titles. It seems he could be involved in the new game. Original story: It looks as though Larian Studios is on the brink of revealing...
News Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is Getting a Strategic Spin-Off Game in 2019
Fallen Heroes
Larian Studios has just announced Divinity: Fallen Heroes, a strategic spin-off title based on the excellent Divinity: Original Sin II, and you can watch the reveal trailer above. It looks like if you enjoyed the tactical combat of its role-playing predecessor, then you're going to want in on this. "Divinity: Fallen Heroes is a new...
News Divinity: Original Sin 2 Is Getting Free Content Updates Through 2019, First Is Out Today
Gifted
Excellent role-playing title Divinity: Original Sin 2 will be getting regular content updates throughout 2019, developer Larian Studios has announced. The team refers to these updates as "gift bags" in the press release, before comically explaining that no, they have nothing to do with loot boxes. "Not to be mistaken for Loot Boxes (which...
