The Latest Breaking News from Swen Vincke

Baldur's Gate 3 director was shocked that people dubbed the RPG a Divinity: Original Sin 2 "rip-off" before launch: "I got a call from my mother who said 'What have you done?'"

Larian looked to popular homebrew D&D rules for Baldur's Gate 3: 'We were like—okay, we're not crazy, some people do it, so maybe we can try it as well'

Larian Studios explain how the infamous bear scene changed perceptions toward Baldur's Gate 3: "We got banned on TikTok!"

Baldur's Gate 3 director turned his back on RTS for RPG at the start of his career - just before the strategy game boom that brought us StarCraft, Homeworld, and Age of Empires

Baldur's Gate 3 boss says he was a World of Warcraft fiend, wonders if his son has a "big game addiction" because his parents were hooked on the MMO "through the entire pregnancy"

Divinity: Original Sin is still the "highlight" of Baldur's Gate 3 director's career because it let Larian Studios "start doing the things we really want"

Baldur's Gate 3 director was somehow "afraid the game was going to be too short," but like Elden Ring's Hidetaka Miyazaki is "very bad at judging the length of our games"

As Veilguard hype builds, Larian boss says "I was in love with Morrigan in Dragon Age" and suddenly I understand why Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with bad girls

Swen Vincke was worried that the 100-hour Baldur's Gate 3 would be too short, which is why Larian made a ton of extra areas they wound up cutting: 'I've notoriously always been bad at judging the length of our games'

Baldur's Gate 3's iconic Moonrise Towers was almost twice its final size, but director Swen Vincke says "the game was getting too big so we had to cut that"

The lead writer of Baldur's Gate 3's Dark Urge was extremely squeamish at first, which shows you can do just about anything if you set your mind to it