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Larian and Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke says Divinity is "our biggest, most ambitious RPG yet," and "I don’t think I've ever been so nervous about an announcement"

The next RPG from Larian is already shaping up to be an epic.

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Larian reveals Divinity, its 'biggest game ever,' that will be 'even larger than Baldur's Gate 3'

The news was slightly spoiled by a trademark filing spotted earlier this week.

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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

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Swen Vincke unable to utter 'giant Withers naturals' as Baldur's Gate 3 celebrates its 3rd Christmas with large rabbits, Baldstarion, and a 1996 Lada Riva

That's all D&D, to me.

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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

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Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 wins 7 titles at Golden Joystick Awards, tying with Baldur's Gate 3 – and Larian boss Swen Vincke approves: "Definitely deserved"

It's the era of the turn-based RPG, eh?

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss says Game Awards 2025 nominees like Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 are "proof" the industry still recognizes "passion," regardless of the "budget or who is making it"

"Brings things back to the core"

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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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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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Baldur's Gate 3 director wishes indie dev behind "impossible" RPG reminiscent of The Elder Scrolls: Daggerfall the "best of luck" as it hits 58k wishlists on Steam

"Love the way it looks"

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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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Over half of Japanese game companies are using AI in development according to a new survey, including Level-5 and Capcom

A survey of Japanese game companies showed that AI use has reached a tipping point.

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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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Swen Vincke had to tell Baldur's Gate 3 writers to tone it down with the poop-based insults, which is saying a lot, since I still count at least 17 scat-based Vicious Mockery voicelines

"Less poo, more Shakespeare."

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"Less poo, more Shakespeare": Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke had to ask the RPG's writing team for more variety over Vicious Mockery's many silly insults

"Why are so many of them about poo?"

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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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Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke shares the RPG love, predicts the long-awaited Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 "is going to be big"

After a two decade hiatus

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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 lead says the D&D RPG is "what allowed us to do our next crazy thing," assuring Larian Studios is "working hard to ensure you'll have plenty of fun" with its new game

"Like really – loads of it"

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The New York Times thinks generative AI is like Pac-Man ghosts and also the Matrix, because nobody gets to be normal about this stuff anymore

Am I being baited? I think I'm being baited.

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Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke says hold my beer and also this unassuming tadpole, here's an "even more amazing" mind-controlled run of BG3 that laps Neuralink Telepathy run of Divinity: Original Sin 2

We are just a few tentacles away from minor Ilithid

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After reportedly laying off more than 300 people, EA CEO says "AI is powering our future" and is already being used "in design, animation, and storytelling"

"We view AI as a powerful accelerator of creativity, innovation, and player connection"

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Larian's Swen Vincke says AI-obsessed studios won't 'have a competitive advantage', because those tools are 'gonna be what's available to everybody'

Vincke says that all games'll need the human touch, even if AI's been useful for early prototyping and annoying busywork.

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Swen Vincke says Larian didn't do Baldur's Gate 3 DLC because the idea is 'boring… there's just no passion'

"What we're doing now makes developers way more happy."

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