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Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon would love to play Astarion again: "Live action or game, I don't care – an advert for grape juice"

If not, he'll settle for a role in anything Fallout-shaped

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"I realized very quickly this was D&D": Astarion actor Neil Newbon sniffed out Baldur's Gate 3, or maybe Icewind Dale 3, and put in for 10 of the RPG's 12 races mid-Final Fantasy 16

"I'll play a goblin holding a pint"

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Baldur's Gate 3 patch notes tease companion changes in the most Larian way: "No great work of art is ever finished, and so too is our approach to the art of snogging"

Even more picture-perfect smooches are underway

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Larian Studios teases Baldur's Gate 3 patch 7 with a look at the new Dark Urge evil endings

Baldur's Gate 3's long-awaited patch 7 gets new details ahead of its September release.

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Baldur's Village, the Stardew Valley/BG3 mash-up mod that lets you kiss Astarion, has a new update and potential release window

Only a matter of time.

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The massive Baldur's Gate 3-themed Stardew Valley mod, Baldur's Village, will feature new stores, seasonal outfits, and more, and it's expected to start rolling out later this year

Romanceable Astarion and Halsin? Go on

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard's romanceable companions won't just wait around for you to woo them—also, they're all canonically pansexual

Pan-ultimate.

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Baldur's Gate 3 lead writer reveals that his favorite line in the entire RPG is a super-subtle callout: "We know what you did last time around"

Confirmation that Minthara is indeed the best girl

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I finally started playing as Baldur's Gate 3's most popular Origin character and I was not disappointed

Now Playing | Rather than a dice roll, I let Larian's stats determine my latest Baldur's Gate 3 run

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Here's a Baldur's Gate 3 mod so that characters can hug each other

Except for gnomes and dwarves and halflings.

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A group of modders are building 'Baldur's Village' in Stardew Valley, an idyllic little town where you can date Astarion and maybe hang out with some of those other guys

Two great tastes that taste great together.

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After 700 hours in Baldur's Gate 3, I'm playing Dragon's Dogma 2 with Astarion at my side

Now Playing | The pale elf has come to Vermund

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Vecna: Eve of Ruin trailer sees Baldur’s Gate 3’s Neil Newbon return to D&D

Neil Newbon, the actor behind BG3's Astarion and RE8's Heisenberg, lends his vocal talents to new Vecna: Eve of Ruin trailer.

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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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Astarion's actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur's Gate 3 dialogue: 'I just had this dog's breakfast'

A spawn of many talents.

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Baldur's Gate 3 players can't figure out why Astarion sometimes goes full Grinch-mode after patch 6, but there's a mod that fixes it

"I'm not entirely sure what's going on."

PC Gamer

Baldur's Gate 3's most beloved voice is joining Fallout 4's most ambitious mod as Astarion actor Neil Newbon bares his fangs on the streets of London

Fallout: London is set for an April release.

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"On. Your. Knees": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion fans in a frenzy as Larian shows off another of the RPG's improved kiss animations, this time with Gale

No surprise at Gale being submissive

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In Baldur's Gate 3, like so many RPGs, the mod to remove the party size limit is essential

Don't make me choose between my videogame children, you monsters.

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Baldur's Gate 3 player gives Astarion a unique "skin" by killing him, reviving him, doing it all again, and then somehow convincing him to join their RPG party

That's 'Zombified Astarion' to you

PC Gamer

You can make one of Baldur's Gate 3's hardest fights easier on yourself—without sacrificing one of the game's best cutscenes and an award-winning performance

A way to avoid a high-stakes fight with teeth.

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Forget alignment: Here's where Baldur's Gate 3's companions fall on the real-life political compass

No, I'm not interested in discussing how long this took me.

Windows Central

Xbox gets featured in this incredible Baldur's Gate 3 cartoon (that needs to be a Netflix show)

Baldur’s Gate 3, the Game of the Year winner and one of the most ambitious RPGs ever made, has finally arrived on Xbox consoles. To celebrate, Larian Studios has released a fun and festive Christmas ad that features the Xbox Series X as a gift from Santa.

GamesRadar

I thought I'd hate Baldur's Gate 3 and now it's my GOTY – but I'll probably never play it again

Opinion | How I learned to love screwing up in Baldur's Gate 3

PC Gamer

'I'm an actor, I'm not a doctor—I'm not a hero': Astarion's voice actor reflects on his Game Awards win for Baldur's Gate 3, and the humility of helping others feel seen

Take a bow, vampire man.

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