The Latest Breaking News from Swen Vincke

Larian boss Swen Vincke cruelly hints at a 2029 release for the studio's next game, only to yoink it away: 'It was just a joke'

Why you gotta play us this way, Swen?

PC Gamer · Oct 2, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 studio wanted to make 2 RPGs at once, but its devs "got swallowed by the ambitions of the one we want to release first"

Making 2 games at once is pretty much as hard as it sounds

GamesRadar · Sep 22, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 devs love the Ultima RPGs, and boss Swen Vincke says "never say never" on Larian reviving the series

So you're saying there's a chance

GamesRadar · Sep 18, 2024

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?'"

Swen Vincke explains that it's only because the team used the same as engine as DOS2

GamesRadar · Sep 2, 2024

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'

"We literally went through forums looking for homebrew rules."

PC Gamer · Sep 2, 2024

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

"We have to talk about the bear in the room"

GamesRadar · Sep 1, 2024

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

Swen Vincke thought "RTS was not something people were going to be interested in"

GamesRadar · Aug 19, 2024

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"

A rare hereditary condition

GamesRadar · Aug 17, 2024

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"

Swen Vincke reveals his favorite child

GamesRadar · Aug 17, 2024

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"

"You'd be surprised to know we actually had many more regions we planned"

GamesRadar · Aug 16, 2024