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Everyone's arguing about whether Divinity will be turn-based or an ARPG, and I'm not sure why because the answer seems obvious

Turning it over in my mind.

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The Game Awards live coverage: Every reveal and announcement as it happens

Keep up with all the news and awards at The Game Awards 2025.

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Obsidian hopes to stand alongside CD Projekt and Larian by making "best-in-class" reactive RPGs, says The Outer Worlds 2 director: "I don't know if we're there yet, but I'd love to get there"

Year in Review 2025 | The Outer Worlds 2 director on the future of the RPG and Obsidian

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'Child labor is unbeatable': Baldur's Gate 3 players discover how to build an army of unkillable kids through the power of polymorph and German media laws

Keeps them off the iPad, at least.

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Baldur's Gate 3 exec argues there's 'no point making a high-spec Steam Machine' – and that makes a lot of sense

Think the Steam Machine is underpowered? Baldur's Gate 3 exec says there's "no point making a high-spec Steam Machine" and he's not wrong.

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Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2 is not the faithful sequel I'd hoped to see, but maybe that's a bigger marker of progress than it seems

Opinion | I've come through the disappointment and emerged newly hopeful – for my own sanity

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead defends Mafia: The Old Country's lack of swimming after clips go viral, says "endlessly layering on mechanics maketh a good game not"

Larian Studios' D&D RPG faced similar criticism

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs throw a bone to advocates of what would be the RPG's weirdest romance option - by shaming us for not keeping her alive

Sazza lovers of the world unite

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Shadowheart is the most-respecced Baldur's Gate 3 companion and it's not even close: everyone knew to make her a Life or Death Domain Cleric, which Larian says "checks out"

The Trickery Domain is for squares

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In a surprise update, Larian says it has "probably this time really maybe" fixed Baldur's Gate 3's notorious character portrait bug which somehow survived 32 previous hotfixes

Squashing one of the most annoying (and hilarious) bugs in the RPG

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Larian getting married in The Gilded Age season 3? I’m more obsessed with Maud Beaton’s Haymarket double-cross in episode 5 of the HBO Max show

Grab your Sunday best, because Larry and Marian are officially getting married in The Gilded Age season 3. But for me, that was far from episode 5’s most satisfying surprise.

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Despite always preferring turn-based combat in RPGs, Pillars of Eternity designer Josh Sawyer thinks a lack of experience and opportunity meant the studio couldn't pull off a similar swing to Larian taking Baldur's Gate turn-based

"I guess we did South Park, but other than that, we hadn't done turn-based ever, really."

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev clarifies that "Karlach's final ending was indeed in response to fan feedback," but Larian was definitely trying to stay clear of Starfield with its early release

"We always aim for a blue-ocean release"

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Forget Divinity: Original Sin 3: For its Baldur's Gate 3 follow-up, I implore Larian to revisit its okayest game

I'm not talking about Ego Draconis. Even okayer than that.

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The best videogame RPGs are really tabletop RPGs in disguise—and that might just be their secret sauce

Tabletop roleplaying drives videogame RPGs to be better.

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From zombie tieflings to a 1-in-64 million ending, Baldur's Gate 3 sleuths are still digging deep to find the content Larian never wanted you to see

Sure, just roll six nat 20s in a row

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There's a unique game over in Baldur's Gate 3 you can only get by rolling 20 on a bunch of Constitution saving throws, then being an absolute dunderhead

Another unlikely outcome foreseen by Larian.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has a secret like Diablo's Cow Level I never saw after 460 hours: A magical sheep companion named 'Harvard Willoughby' you summon by killing a comedian and ringing two bells

The comedian is actually named after the sheep, and the sheep can cast lightning magic.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Lae'zel actor had a little chair in the booth because she was still recording 2 days before giving birth: "My waters broke after the session"

"I'm gonna be here right up until the due date"

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With Larian finally at the end of its journey with Baldur's Gate 3, what do we want next from the new kings of the RPG?

With Baldur's Gate 4 off the table, the studio has moved on to two mysterious new projects.

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Baldur's Gate 3's new Giant Barbarian is beating out one of D&D 5e's oldest powergamer builds, making Karlach the MVP of my second Honour Mode playthrough

Giant woman, big damage.

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Baldur's Gate 3 "changed design direction at least two times" after Larian first tried a "cartoony approach" with the RPG, "closer to what we see in D&D books"

Can you imagine a cartoony Lae'zel?

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Thank you for ruining my life, Larian: Even after 900 hours and a dozen playthroughs, Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 8 has me obsessed all over again

Baldur's Gate 3's new subclasses make my latest run feel as fresh as my first.

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'This is it. Our final major game patch for Baldur’s Gate 3': The colossal Patch 8 is finally here, marking the end of (non-bug fix) updates for Larian's triumphant RPG

I'm getting all misty-eyed.

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5,000 gold, 2,500 hours, and one priceless scroll: Baldur's Gate 3 player cooks up a "Midas run" by turning the RPG's bosses into solid gold trophies, because "why not"

Look upon my riches and tremble

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