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Baldur's Gate 3 dev backs Fallout: New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer, wishes he "would get the resources" for his dream RPG: "I want to play that game"

Sawyer recently said he's "out of step" with the Pillars of Eternity and Baldur's Gate 3 community

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director has RPG fans wrapped around his finger as he teases that Larian "won't be putting Easter eggs in any of our videos, until we do"

Keep an eye out, just in case

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Baldur's Gate 3 lead says "forward momentum will make another" game as good as the world-beating RPG as Larian does "much forward thinking" about what's next

"It's such a good game"

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Baldur's Gate 3 hits its lowest-ever price in the Steam Summer Sale, in case you needed another reason to play this all-timer RPG

Buying into a deal this smart might offer +1 INT

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Baldur's Gate 3 players on Steam have now spent longer in the RPG on average than Bethesda fans have in Skyrim, in true D&D fashion

Half of that time was probably spent on character creation

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead shoots down iPad Pro release rumor, but is "consistently impressed" with Apple tech: "It's wild"

"I’m a mere publishing boy, but I am consistently impressed with Apple tech"

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Game devs praise Steam as a 'democratic platform' that 'continues to be transformative' for PC gaming today

"It's just a great constant in our industry that is [otherwise] really in f***ing panic mode."

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing lead explains Larian's player-first approach to marketing the RPG: "The industry's best agencies ... came up with nothing good"

"It has never been easier to *potentially* reach your audience directly"

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Larian publishing director says "marketing's dead" because players don't want to be "bamboozled," and "we learned that with Baldur's Gate 3"

Michael Douse says marketing straight-up "doesn't work" anymore

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Slay the Spire co-creator advises that 'taking risks is actually the least risky thing you can do,' arguing for the appeal of 'hyper-engaging' games

In our State of PC Gaming roundtable, Mega Crit's Casey Yano urged big game studios to give players novelty rather than the expected.

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'Marketing's dead, and I can back this s**t up': Larian's publishing director says players 'just want to be spoken to, and they don't want to be bamboozled'

In our State of PC Gaming roundtable, Larian's Michael Douse argues marketing isn't the right way to reach today's gaming audience.

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director says the CRPG's latest players' choice win is proof that "a developer is not a dispensable asset"

Developers aren't "something to be decommissioned when it suits," he says

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Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director compares success of the "f***ing CRPG" to Palworld, says "it's not rocket science" why the survival game is doing so well

The secret to Palworld's success is "really f***ing simple," he says

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Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'

"We should be humbled by this period. It doesn't feel like we're humbled by this period as an industry."

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Baldur's Gate 3's Xbox retail version will have a whopping 4 discs since it 'didn't make sense' to cut any content

Baldur's Gate 3's Xbox deluxe edition will be shipping on four disks, confirms director of publishing.

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev confirms the Xbox retail version will have 4 discs because the epic RPG was 500MB too big to fit on 3, but it "didn't make sense" to cut any content

Larian wasn't lying when it said the Deluxe Edition includes "a f***-ton of discs"

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Larian finally breaks silence, confirms "way over" 10 million people have played Baldur's Gate 3

"This is a game that went from ~2 mil players to way over 10 in a very short space of time"

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"Please stop that": Baldur's Gate 3 lead speaks out against "threats and toxicity against our devs and community teams" as the RPG gears up for long-awaited mod support

Mod support has been in development "since launch"

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Baldur's Gate 3 director calls out 'threats and toxicity against our devs and community' over mod support

Baldur's Gate 3 director of publishing Michael Douse calls on fans to cease "threats and toxicity" over plans for mod support.

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Baldur's Gate 3 devs are working on a 'cross-platform plan for mod support' for release later this year

Cross-platform mod support is coming 'later' this year, says Larian Studios' director of publishing Michael Douse.

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Larian is working on official mod support for Baldur's Gate 3 and it'll be cross-platform: 'We love our modding community and we want to support them'

Baldur's Gate 3 mods are coming to consoles.

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev pledges "robust, cross-platform plan" to add mod support to the RPG this year

Hotfix 19 is out today, and Larian has something much bigger in the oven

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Larian and Microsoft working to address 'annoying and uncool' Xbox account bans caused by the unfortunate combination of Baldur's Gate 3's notorious horniness and automatic gameplay uploads

One unlucky player was hit with a year-long account suspension after his gameplay clip was automatically uploaded to Xbox servers.

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Baldur's Gate 3 developers are fighting for our right to record clips of any scenes on Xbox without the risk of account bans

Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian, took to X to alleviate Xbox players' fears about potential bans for recording BG3 lewd content.

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Baldur’s Gate 3 Xbox save issues are ‘lingering’ but should be far less prevalent now

Larian Studios are still looking into save file issues on the Xbox Series X|S version of Baldur's Gate 3, but reports are down.

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