The Latest Breaking News from Josh Sawyer

Before Baldur's Gate 3, these games made D&D's Forgotten Realms a fixture on PlayStation

Play Magazine exhumes the best PlayStation games that incorporated one iconic D&D setting over the years

GamesRadar · Dec 25, 2023

CRPG vet suggests D&D 5E is one of Baldur’s Gate 3’s "biggest stumbling blocks"

“The most fun things in the game aren't really 5E things or even D&D things, but Larian things"

GamesRadar · Dec 14, 2023

Developers blast the celeb-laden Game Awards as 'an embarrassing indictment of a segment of the industry desperate for validation… with little respect for the devs'

More than a few devs would like The Game Awards to be more about, well, the game awards.

PC Gamer · Dec 8, 2023

Obsidian's RPG design expert reckons he knows why no one's maining Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and it's the same reason no one plays them in his games either

Josh Sawyer has worked on or led design in games like Fallout: New Vegas, Icewind Dale, and Pillars of Eternity.

PC Gamer · Aug 30, 2023

Nobody wants to play a Cleric in Baldur's Gate 3, and one veteran RPG dev says it's got nothing to do with D&D rules

"In my experience this has nothing to do with the specifics of BG3 or 5E"

GamesRadar · Aug 29, 2023

'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3

Creative forces behind series like Fallout, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, and Pillars of Eternity react to Baldur's Gate 3.

PC Gamer · Aug 19, 2023

The best CRPGs to play after Baldur's Gate 3

Defeated the Absolute already? Here are some options for your next adventure.

PC Gamer · Aug 17, 2023

Baldur's Gate 3 is the game of the moment – don't ruin that moment

Opinion | Baldur's Gate 3 is too good to be reduced to an arbitrary moral bludgeon

GamesRadar · Aug 9, 2023

Pentiment gets updated with more languages and a new map area

Pentiment, the award-winning narrative RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, is getting updated with expanded language support and a new area.

Windows Central · May 25, 2023

Josh Sawyer: 'The most compromised games I worked on were Pillars of Eternity 1 and 2'

Though he's still proud of them, Pillars of Eternity's game director would have liked them to be different.

PC Gamer · Apr 23, 2023