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'No point making a high-spec Steam Machine,' Larian publishing boss says, because anyone who wants a powerful PC is going to look elsewhere anyway

Valve's new living room box is not built for the hardcore, and that's kind of the point.

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Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'

It'll be fine, right? It'll be fine.

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I've already been getting my hopes up for The Expanse game from RPG factory Owlcat, and its main theme just skewered my Mass Effect-loving lizard brain

The quickest way to my heart: Swelling, uplifting synths.

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Larian publishing director balks at Square Enix's push to replace QA workers with AI: 'The idea that QA people can be replaced at a large scale is stupid … They are a massively advantageous vibe check'

AI's growing role in gamedev continues to polarize.

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Fallout co-creator Tim Cain's long list of "nitpicky" D&D questions for Wizards of the Coast in 2002 might help explain why Larian wanted to move on from the tabletop license after Baldur's Gate 3

"When anyone ever says, 'Well, this is at DM's discretion,' you have to decide right then what your discretion is"

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We need to commit—it's time crunchy, complicated RPGs made their mainstream comeback for good

Scrap the streamline.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke is "happy" Larian devs talk about "what they did wrong" with their RPGs, but says "they should just chill out" and remember the good things too

Larian isn't a studio to rest on its laurels

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Larian lead calls out Elon Musk's harebrained scheme for a 'great AI-generated game', says 'We don't need another cash grab, we need sustainability'

"To turn games into digital, emotionless content is to abandon all resonance".

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Starfinder: Afterlight could become one of my favourite CRPGs—even if the studio's co-founders are 'more scared about huge success than a bit of failure' when it comes to their big Kickstarter debut

Looks like we've got liftoff.

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With Xbox hiking prices and a newly private, $20-billion-in-the-hole EA looking ready to gut Baldur's Gate series creator BioWare, Larian boss Swen Vincke points out that 'making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before'

But by god, we're gonna try.

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Amid EA's unpopular $55 billion buyout, Baldur's Gate 3 director takes time "to remind people that making games faster and cheaper while charging more has never worked before"

Larian Studios' lead has a point

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Larian boss Swen Vincke says "a single engineer" kickstarted Baldur's Gate 3's dedicated Steam Deck port "working on it after hours," and ultimately won over the whole studio

Larian, you didn't need to do this

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Baldur's Gate 3 now runs natively on Steam Deck thanks to a single Larian engineer who started the project after hours because he 'really wanted a smoother version of the game on Steam Deck'

Hotfix 34 rolled out today, with good news for portable gamers.

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"It's a dreadful thing you've asked us to do": Baldur's Gate 3 writer says creating the game's "celestial elephant detective" was an uphill battle for devs who really wanted her to drink a glass of wine

Come on, it's just one glass of wine!

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Now that I'm done mourning BioWare, these are the RPG developers I'm expecting to carry the torch for the next decade

The baton isn't being passed as much as looted off a collapsed old hero.

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Larian sends fan new limited edition Baldur's Gate 3 vinyl after melting mishap

Larian Studios once again goes above and beyond for its fans.

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Larian publishing chief says mainstream game industry has a 'perverse attachment' to indie studios, because indies still know how to follow their gut

"If you can't rely on data and you've lost the institutional 'gut instinct' that drives the furore of expression (defines a game), you get stuck."

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If "good is the new bad" in games, flawed experiments won't have time to grow into future GOTYs

Opinion | The interesting-but-wonky 7/10 has done us a lot of good in the long run

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor says he "physically, mentally just shut down" while working on the RPG and "other projects simultaneously" – "I don't know what you're asking me to do"

"We were doing crazy hours. Not abusive hours at all, we were all up for it, but it was very long hours"

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43-year CRPG veteran behind Fallout and Wasteland knew Baldur's Gate "could be huge" decades before Larian's RPG threequel: "You're sitting on something that's going to at least do $50 million"

Brian Fargo foresaw the Dungeons & Dragons adaptation's success

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The official mod support of Baldur's Gate 3 is a heaving success with over 265 million downloads, 250,000 of which are Withers Big Naturals

Must thine eyes wander perilously often to mine chest?

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I don't know what's worse - the 4,000 Baldur's Gate 3 sicko who beat the RPG's Honour Mode at level 1, or the 30,000 who did it with an objectively terrible build

There are simply not enough hours on Ao's green earth

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director is "so insanely excited" for Larian's next RPG, but don't expect it any time soon: "This s**t ain't cooked in an air fryer bro sorry got nothing for you right now"

Let them cook

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Larian says it's going to expand the Baldur's Gate 3 mod toolkit 'to give you even more freedom,' so there goes another 100 hours I've lost to modding

I just learned how to make freckles for my Tav, but I'll catch up eventually.

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Larian celebrated a 'probably this time really maybe' defeat of Baldur's Gate 3's Zoom grandpa portrait glitch too soon, with the beloved bug already rising from the dead like a slasher villain

Don't look at me like that.

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