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YOU WONT BELIEVE: Neil newbon - You Need To See This

Until Dawn 2 is coming in 2027, Baldur's Gate 3 star Neil Newbon plays a "buff idiot," and OG studio Supermassive has been replaced by PlayStation's Horizon Call of the Mountain dev

Firesprite is handling Until Dawn 2, and I'm not sure how I feel about that

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon is also in Crimson Desert, which he calls "really impressive" and says players "just have to deal with" choice overload

He'd know, given his time in the Forgotten Realms

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Baldur's Gate 3 cast 'changed the game' for videogame actors, says Dragon Age: Inquisition lead: 'We too deserve to stand up and be counted'

Flowers duly deserved.

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Baldur's Gate 3 icons like Jennifer English and Neil Newbon "changed the game" for game actors, Dragon Age Inquisition star says: "Our work does have value"

Ben Starr, too

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Baldur's Gate 3 was "lightning in a bottle," Astarion actor says, and "proved a lot of things" that big companies "who are just really chasing the money need to learn from"

Neil Newbon thinks other studios are capable of similar highs

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T. Kingfisher is writing an official Baldur’s Gate 3 prequel novel about Astarion

The beloved vampire spawn gets his own dark prequel.

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The best possible fantasy author is writing a dark, tragic prequel novel for our beloved Baldur's Gate 3 boy Astarion

Wildly prolific fantasy and horror author T. Kingfisher just got announced as the writer of an Astarion backstory novel coming this year.

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Wizards of the Coast's official D&D actual-play series will feature Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde from Baldur's Gate 3 among its players

No, he won't be playing Astarion, though they are going to Ravenloft.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion and Lae'zel actors join D&D creator's official campaign, but not as their RPG characters

Neil Newbon and Devora Wilde are taking on new roles

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Baldur's Gate 3 actor and prominent gen-AI critic Neil Newbon gives Arc Raiders dev "props" for replacing AI voices with humans

"I think hats off to them for doing that, that's a good thing, and that's good to hear"

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Astarion's actor from Baldur's Gate 3 has dodged similar roles: 'Repetition breeds stagnation'

"They kinda want the Astarion thing."

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'This game could never be made by AI… it's too human,' says Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon after wrapping a playthrough on stream

"Baldur's Gate 3, the game that just keeps on fucking giving."

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says "there's no f*cking way AI could make" anything like Larian's hit RPG: "It's too interesting, subtle, crazy, off the wall, pathos-filled. It's too human"

"F*ck AI"

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Bungie sets Marathon apart from Arc Raiders' AI-infused voices with a stacked cast of actors including Baldur's Gate 3 and Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 talent

With the likes of Jennifer English, Ben Starr, and Tracy Wiles taking part

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Marathon's full voice cast includes talent from Deus Ex, Baldur's Gate 3, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Red Dead Redemption and loads more

It's an all-Starr cast.

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Turn-based RPG Starfinder: Afterlight voice cast includes Red Dead Redemption 2’s Roger Clark

Space cowboy? Say no more.

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Despite the initial pushback, Larian is making Divinity with the help of AI, but you won't see it in-game: "Everything is human actors; we're writing everything ourselves"

Larian boss Swen Vincke says "I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it"

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Astarion actor Neil Newbon doesn't get why games like Arc Raiders using 'dull as hell' AI for voice work don't 'go back and actually redo the lines with actors' once they make it big

"That's an option; I'm just saying."

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor Neil Newbon says the RPG's beloved vampire has "meant more than I ever realized he would," and "I'm not ready to let go of him"

The actor says it's been "really moving" to see what an impact his character and other Baldur's Gate 3 favorites have had on fans

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"It saved my life": Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says performance capture acting in games pulled him out of "£34,000 worth of debt" and "years of not doing very well"

"But not only that, it also reinvigorated it"

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As if playing Astarion in Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't enough, Neil Newbon's latest performance in Dead Take is the best acting I've seen in gaming

Opinion | The actor's collaboration with Sam Lake and Ben Starr is truly exceptional

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says his new dating sim character sounded too much like his iconic vampire voice, so he had to base his performance on a fictional sex symbol from an '80s British sitcom instead

"We wanted to make sure that he wasn't going to fall into the Astarion trope too much"

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Baldur's Gate 3's Neil Newbon wants to reprise his role, but when people say 'this character's just like Astarion, would you like to play them?' he's 'like not really, no'

It's not you, darling, it's me. I have standards.

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Baldur's Gate 3 actor Neil Newbon has turned down "Astarion-like" roles because he "wouldn't necessarily enjoy" them, but he "would love to play" the iconic vampire again

Newbon doesn't want to be "an Astarion-like character"

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Astarion actor Neil Newbon says method acting makes it hard to shake off characters after playing them, and still laughs a little like the Baldur's Gate 3 Vampire to this day

"You do get a bit of a come down where you're trying to shake the character off"

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