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The Latest Breaking News from Larian

The mystery of The Game Awards statue in the desert may be solved, and I have to admit I did not see this one coming

No, I'm not going to spoil it in the headline. If you want to know, click the link.

PC Gamer

After Baldur's Gate 3 player painstakingly calculates how much spoken dialogue Larian included in its D&D RPG, director admits they didn't actually know themselves: "Which I think was for the better"

Swen Vincke isn't sure these stats would've been useful to the team

GamesRadar

TGA’s latest tease of the viral demonic statue is here, and we think we’ve cracked the code

Or, you know, Geoff could just TELL US what it is.

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Baldur's Gate 3 Astarion actor thinks putting "the player first over profit" is why the RPG is so successful, urges other devs to do the same: "You're probably gonna sell a s***-ton of copies"

"If we needed to redo something, they spent the money, and we did it"

GamesRadar

With Baldur's Gate 3 still in Steam's top 20 after 2 years, Larian ends 2025 with love for the best mods keeping the RPG thriving: "Give yourselves a pat on the back, have a shot of whiskey"

350 million mod downloads, 10,000 mods uploaded

GamesRadar

Baldur's Gate 3 provided "a lot of inspiration" for CD Projekt Red, but The Witcher 4 devs are sticking to their own RPG formula: "We definitely are not going to make a game like Larian did"

They "want to innovate"

GamesRadar

After 4 years with Larian, Baldur's Gate 3 Alfira actor didn't know her character could immediately die until it had already happened: "I was like, 'What?! Did they just kill her off?'"

How could you do this to Rebecca Hanssen?!

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Sandfall Interactive expresses shock as Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 matches Baldur's Gate 3's record-setting run at the 2025 Golden Joystick Awards: 'What the f**k is happening'

Sandfall Interactive's J'RPG took home seven awards, matching the record set by Larian in 2023.

PC Gamer

Larian Studios responds to 2025 Game Awards nomination for Baldur's Gate 3, which came out more than 2 years ago: 'honestly, what the f**k'

It's a fair question.

PC Gamer

'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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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

PC Gamer

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".

PC Gamer

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.

GamesRadar

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

PC Gamer

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.

GamesRadar

"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!

PC Gamer

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.

PC Gamer

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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