The Latest Breaking News from Swen Vincke

Years before Baldur's Gate 3 blew everyone away, Larian's CEO nearly quit the industry over publisher pressure on the Divinity series

Swen Vincke thankfully didn't quit, he only left publishers behind

GamesRadar · Aug 3, 2024

Larian boss says the Baldur's Gate 3 approach would "scare" shareholders and publishers: "You will try to box it, you will try to control it, which is the exact opposite of what we want"

"If you see it, it'll scare you, as a shareholder, as a publisher"

GamesRadar · Aug 2, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 dev shares Larian boss Swen Vincke's response to the RPG's explosive launch: 'You know what this means? It means we get to do it again'

"We were looking at the Steam numbers, seeing the numbers going up and up and up"

GamesRadar · Aug 2, 2024

'We can't stay here': Larian CEO opens up about relocating Russian developers otherwise, 'all of my team was going to go to war'

"I had already thought about what we were going to do."

PC Gamer · Jul 15, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke says that all the awards actually started to obstruct development: 'It is surprisingly draining on the soul'

A good problem to have.

PC Gamer · Jul 15, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 won so many awards that it started to "affect development", forcing Larian to send "rotating teams" of devs to ceremonies

Swen Vincke is suffering from success

GamesRadar · Jul 14, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 CEO says Larian was "fighting with embassies" to relocate developers after closing its Russian studio in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine

"The decision was instant: We can't stay here"

GamesRadar · Jul 14, 2024

Larian CEO Swen Vincke says there were only two other RPG series he was interested in working on if he couldn't get Baldur's Gate: Fallout and Ultima

Vincke "felt like there was a glass ceiling" holding Larian back, and he wanted a big title to break through it.

PC Gamer · Jul 12, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 dev nearly lost its chance at the D&D license because its previous RPG meant its pitch to Wizards of the Coast was "really s***"

"We didn't have the brainpower"

GamesRadar · Jul 12, 2024

Baldur's Gate 3 studio CEO says that if he couldn't make a D&D game, Fallout and Ultima were the only other RPG licenses he would have considered instead : "There was not a lot to choose from"

"I felt like there was a glass ceiling that we wouldn't be able to break through unless we had triple-A production values"

GamesRadar · Jul 11, 2024