Other BG3 Companions Should Take Cues From The Ultimate Baldur's Gate 3 NPC

The marketing team behind Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is taking credit for a green comet that passed Earth last year. 

A Baldur’s Gate 3 writer has reflected on Larian Studios’ decision to include a tribute in the game to a fan’s father who has Alzheimers, and said they’re “really happy we got to honour the mighty mindflayer hunter.”

The original Baldur's Gate games appear to have leaked for Xbox Game Pass, causing players to reminisce about the bizarre rulesets of the D&D editions they were based on.

It’s no secret Baldur’s Gate 3 took the gaming community by storm once released. Whether it was the intense turn-based battles or the immersive storylines and dialogue , Baldur’s Gate 3 took the victory as Game of the Year during the Steam Awards 2023. 

may be an adaptation of, but that doesn't always mean it's a perfect, one-to-one conversion. 's rules for resolving dialogue and combat scenarios are drawn directly from the Fifth Edition of rules, which was first released in 2014. This is the first mainline game in the series to be based on the Fifth Edition; the first and second both draw from the Second Edition. However, it draws more expansively from the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, which has been employed in modules and spin-offs since its very first edition.

Gamers can’t help but love the holiday shopping season, if for nothing else than the rush by retailers and digital storefronts to slash prices on the year’s greatest games. These incredible sales may seem like tempting opportunities to gift your favorite gamer with a Game of the Year contender. Before you do that, take a moment to stop and consider an unspoken hurdle for gamers: Does the gift recipient have enough storage for that game?

A genius The Finals player has come up with an ace workaround for dealing with hackers and cheaters.

If you thought you were bad at hoarding stuff in RPGs, wait until you get a load of this Baldur's Gate 3 player.

may not restrict the number of factions players are able to join, but in the end, it forces them to make a definitive choice between the Crimson Fleet and United Colonies. The UC are basically space cops, and the Fleet are more akin to space robbers. More accurately, the Crimson Fleet is a loosely organized coalition of pirates, while the militarized UC regulates interstellar trade, punishing smuggling and theft severely. Each faction comes with its own reward, but one is clearly the better the option.

Unforetold: Witchstone was maybe the biggest surprise for me at our PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted showcase. The Spearhead Games CRPG almost evokes Larian's first Divinity: Original Sin game in its presentation, but instead of pursuing cinematic RPG production values, Witchstone is like an alternate evolutionary path emphasizing the construction of an open-ended, RPG sandbox.

The cast of Baldur's Gate 3 has evolved over the game's Early Access period and beyond—Wyll in particular had a whole rewrite between the game's conception and its full release. Whether it's whole storylines shifting or just toning down Gale's accidental thirstiness, finding the core of a character in a story this large is bound to be complicated.

Former employees of the recently closed Free Radical Design, an Embracer Group-owned British video game developer that was responsible for the iconic TimeSplitters first-person shooter (FPS) series, have been sharing concept art for an unannounced project.