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13.12 / 12:55

UPS CEO Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke calls out industry layoffs, "short-sighted" decisions, "arbitrary sales targets," and more in his latest Game Awards speech: "Change is coming"

A year after Baldur's Gate 3's massive Game Awards sweep, which saw it take home the coveted Game of the Year award and more, Larian's RPG behemoth has secured another win with the 2024 Best Community Support award. In his acceptance speech, game director and studio CEO Swen Vincke had some powerful statements to make about the current state of the games industry, and what truly makes a Game of the Year winner.

13.12 / 21:23

RPG Puzzle UPS Music Larian brings back the Baldur's Gate 3 advent calendar to tease its next game

13.12 / 19:07

Platform UPS Celebrity Astro Bot takes home four major awards at The Game Awards 2024, including Game of the Year

13.12 / 05:51

UPS CEO Larian boss Swen Vincke calls out pretty much the entire videogame industry at The Game Awards

02.12 / 12:19

RPG Celebrity Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke teases that Larian has been "buzzing with all the new exciting stuff" while the post-launch teams have been hard at work on the RPG's big updates

21.11 / 01:55

UPS CEO As Baldur's Gate 3 reaches bigger heights in 2024 than 2023, Larian publishing chief says it's a "pleasant surprise" and "we're not quite done yet"

03.11 / 21:23

Fighting RPG Adventure Celebrity Is Dragon Age’s Lack of DLC a Good Thing?

31.10 / 01:25

Twitter skeleton Celebrity Baldur's Gate 3 devs celebrate 50 million mod downloads since Patch 7, including 10,000 renaming Withers to Bone Daddy: "Uh, glad we could facilitate that"

24.10 / 17:03

Action RPG UPS Baldur's Gate 3 holds up shockingly well in first person—so well, in fact, that Larian head Swen Vincke's been gobsmacked by his own game: 'Just look at it'

24.10 / 14:33

RPG CEO Baldur's Gate 3 looks like a totally different RPG with a first-person camera mod, and it's so cool that Larian lead Swen Vincke says "I want to play this"

16.10 / 16:03

Twitter Baldur's Gate III Gets the Funko Pop! Treatment

10.10 / 19:13

Fighting RPG UPS Reddit Baldur's Gate 3 fan mods all of the RPG's companions into Tekken 8, effectively respeccing them all into the Monk class

10.10 / 18:40

RPG CEO Baldur's Gate 3 boss Swen Vincke catches sight of the RPG community's most lewd creation yet, a "$20,000 life-sized Astarion sex doll"

02.10 / 22:03

UPS Google 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'

02.10 / 19:53

RPG UPS Baldur's Gate 3 boss says Larian's next RPG could launch in 2029, immediately says that's a joke: "They're big games and it takes time, so don't hold us to a date"

22.09 / 10:29

Divinity UPS CEO Hasbro 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"

18.09 / 18:01

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

16.09 / 18:52

UPS Reddit Baldur’s Gate 3 Modder Creates Custom Maps Including Avernus

16.09 / 13:23

UPS Progressive Reddit Baldur's Gate 3 Modder Reveals First Custom Maps, Including Avernus

12.09 / 17:47

RPG Celebrity PC Gamer magazine's new issue, featuring a special collectible lenticular cover, is on sale now: Planet Coaster 2

09.09 / 18:36

PC Xbox Series X PS5 Baldur’s Gate 3 Crosses 1 Million Mod Installs Less Than 24 Hours After Patch 7’s Release

07.09 / 22:12

Action UPS Just a few days in and people have already installed millions of mods for Baldur's Gate 3

07.09 / 17:30

RPG Racing CEO Baldur's Gate 3's official mod support prompts over "a million mods installed in less than 24 hours," from new races to fresh XP cheats

05.09 / 03:17

Platform UPS Nintendo Is Baldur’s Gate 3 coming to Switch?

03.09 / 12:50

UPS Baldur's Gate 3's long-awaited patch 7 is finally arriving on PC this week

02.09 / 18:09

Celebrity One Year Later, Larian Reflects On Baldur's Gate 3's Success, Future Plans, And Canceling DLC: "Ever Since, We've Felt Better"

02.09 / 14:05

RPG Divinity CEO 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?'"

02.09 / 12:56

Action 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'

01.09 / 19:26

UPS CEO Baldur’s Gate 3 Update 7 Is Out Next Week, Adding Official Mods and New Cinematics

01.09 / 13:26

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

01.09 / 04:08

UPS Celebrity Baldur's Gate 3 devs considered a first-person dialogue camera, weren't sure it would have cinematics: 'the next thing we know they're zooming in on a goblin toe'

01.09 / 01:30

Divinity UPS Baldur's Gate 3's beefy patch 7 will finally drop next week

19.08 / 17:45

RPG Strategy Divinity War 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

17.08 / 18:46

Warcraft RPG UPS CEO Baldur's Gate 3 boss was such a World of Warcraft fiend "through the entire pregnancy," he wonders if his son inherited his "big game addiction"

17.08 / 16:41

RPG Divinity CEO 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"

16.08 / 22:41

Party RPG UPS 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

16.08 / 22:36

RPG 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"

16.08 / 22:02

Platform Fighting Dreams Fallout UPS 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"

14.08 / 11:18

Baldur's Gate 3 Star Wars Jedi Baldur's Gate 3 wins Hugo Award

14.08 / 01:07

RPG Star Wars Jedi War Somehow, Baldur's Gate 3 isn't done winning yet: It's just claimed the most prestigious award for science fiction and fantasy writing

12.08 / 22:11

Adventure Star Wars Jedi War Celebrity Baldur’s Gate 3 just won the biggest award in fantasy and sci-fi

06.08 / 17:52

UPS Celebrity Larian releases Baldur's Gate 3 anniversary video celebrating the fans, and boss Swen Vincke says you ain't seen nothing yet: 'We're gonna take all of that energy and convert it into something new, something shiny, something big'

06.08 / 14:56

RPG UPS Discover Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director has RPG fans wrapped around his finger as he teases that Larian "won't be putting Easter eggs in any of our videos, until we do"

04.08 / 16:23

RPG Divinity CEO Divinity: Original Sin's story was done in "three days or something," but the Baldur's Gate 3 team now "spend years discussing story and trying to develop characters"

04.08 / 09:36

RPG Divinity UPS CEO Larian Studios is finding it hard to make an RPG that feels totally new because "we did a lot of things in Baldur's Gate 3"

03.08 / 19:44

Strategy Celebrity To celebrate Baldur's Gate 3's first birthday, Larian announces a 'Channel From Hell' on YouTube for 'community-focused' and 'never-before-seen' videos

03.08 / 09:25

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

02.08 / 17:49

RPG UPS The scrapped Baldur's Gate 3 add-on was playable when Larian canned it, and director Swen Vincke has some salt for the wound: "It's something you all would have liked"

02.08 / 17:31

RPG UPS Celebrity 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'

30.07 / 21:05

RPG UPS Dragon Age: The Veilguard Has a Massive 140,000 Lines of Dialogue

22.07 / 22:32

RPG UPS Discover Baldur's Gate 3 dev explains in painstaking detail how and why players get to break the game: "The easy thing would be to block players ... but we don't like that at Larian"

16.07 / 11:31

Party UPS Baldur’s Gate 3 Dev Larian Reveals What to Expect From the Huge Patch 7 — and Teased It’s Not the Final Update

15.07 / 17:38

RPG Baldur's Gate 3 Team Had to Collect So Many Different Awards That Game Development Was Affected

15.07 / 12:32

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

15.07 / 12:15

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

13.07 / 09:30

RPG Divinity Fallout UPS CEO 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

12.07 / 17:02

RPG Fallout CEO 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"

12.07 / 15:23

RPG Twitter CEO The Baldur's Gate 3 council of sages (or Larian Studios, if you want to be boring) meets on holy ground to discuss 'lift off' for its next big game

20.06 / 23:19

CEO A "Larian" Version Of Baldur's Gate 4 Could Be Possible, But Not In The Way You Think

19.06 / 15:39

RPG CEO Larian CEO says Baldur's Gate 3's full-on mod support will mark the moment the studio passes the reigns to the RPG's community: "Now it's yours fully"

17.06 / 22:13

Party UPS CEO To create its cast of Baldur's Gate 3 companions, Larian came up with 'hundreds and hundreds' of character concepts: 'It was a huge, huge list'

17.06 / 17:07

RPG CEO Baldur's Gate 3 Mod Support Sounds Like Its Final Major Update

17.06 / 16:59

RPG PC Strategy PS5 Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3 mod update will be Larian’s ‘final handover’ to players

17.06 / 15:31

Party UPS CEO Karlach's infernal engine was a late addition to her character in Baldur's Gate 3: 'One of the last things that fell into place was the heart'

15.06 / 16:25

Party Shadowheart from Baldur's Gate 3 was originally "more sassy" and had to be "heavily dialed down" after one of the devs said "I really don't like" the character

03.06 / 12:17

RPG PC Strategy PS5 Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur's Gate 3 once had a portable hole, but Swen Vincke says it would have been a "crime against humanity"

01.06 / 17:43

RPG Strategy Digital Extreme Twitter Baldur's Gate 3 lead says his game's success is helping other RPGs, giving them "a little bit of leverage in the next business meeting"

01.06 / 01:51

Divinity UPS Digital CEO Baldur's Gate 3 Required Less Crunch Than Larian Studios' Previous RPGs | Push Square

31.05 / 20:13

RPG UPS Twitter CEO A new throwback RPG is so good, it's won praise from Larian boss Swen Vincke: 'I’m flying to LA next week and plan to play it the entire flight'

28.05 / 22:35

Ubisoft RPG UPS CD Projekt doesn't feel 'threatened' by Larian's move into Warsaw: 'The more, the merrier'

28.05 / 17:43

RPG Dreams UPS CEO Hasbro Larian says it started 'pushing around ideas for Baldur's Gate 4' but 'we didn't have the fire'

28.05 / 15:33

Larian did "a bit of crunch" on Baldur's Gate 3 due to unforeseen challenges

27.05 / 23:13

PC Xbox Series X PS5 Baldur's Gate 3 Baldur’s Gate 3’s Development Involved “a Bit of Crunch,” Director Says

26.05 / 13:37

UPS Digital Baldur's Gate 3 had less crunch than Larian's previous RPGs, but its director says "you will always have a little bit" of overtime"

22.05 / 13:11

RPG Digital Baldur's Gate 3 director refused to sacrifice quality even amid concerns the RPG would be "impossible to finish" and budget was running out: "We were in a lot of trouble"

20.05 / 15:27

RPG CEO Larian Studios Opens New Studio in Warsaw

20.05 / 15:25

UPS Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios opens new doors in Warsaw to help share the load of not 1, but 2 'very ambitious RPGs' in development

20.05 / 13:23

RPG UPS CEO Hasbro Baldur's Gate 3 developer is gearing up for its "two very ambitious RPGs" by opening a 7th studio on the Witcher devs' territory

20.05 / 13:23

RPG Digital Hasbro Baldur's Gate 3 director bragged it could be the "RPG of the decade" during development - then immediately regretted it

06.05 / 13:59

RPG UPS Discover Cyberpunk Avowed and Cyberpunk 2077 leads weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3 setting a new standard for RPGs: "Baldur's Gate is a D&D game, we're not going to start rolling now"