Team FOLON, Fallout: London’s creators, have long been open about their desire for people to create mods that put fresh twists on or add stuff to their massive mod, and they’ve now done a bit of leading by example in that regard, with a mod that injects some chaos into your playthrough via Baldur's Gate 3-esque dice rolls.

After all, it’s not like British culture and the established dangers of the post-apocalypse are already enough to keep you on your toes as you explore the mod’s massive wasteland.

The mod in question is the brainchild of Jordan ‘SunnyDelight’ Albon, Team FOLON’s lead 3D artist. They’re clearly a bit of a TTRPG fan, since their creation - dubbed ‘NAT20’ adds a massive twenty-sided dice to your character’s inventory that they can take out and activate to roll for random outcomes.

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The venn diagram of Magic the Gathering fans and Baldur's Gate 3 fans will probably want to check out the very good, and potentially titillating, Astarion cards.

Astarion is no stranger to Magic the Gathering, he has featured on some cards before, but Wizards of the Coast has just revealed (via Polygon) a new Secret Lair set that shows your favourite vampire on favourite different cards with some beautiful full arts. These five cards come as part of celebrations for the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons, and there are more Secret Lair sets on the way too, though those haven't been revealed just yet. The five cards include Mortify, Anguished Unmaking, Sanguine Blood, Exquisite Blood, and of course, Astarion, the Decadent. Each one is more risque than the last, honestly, but it's clear that each artist that worked on them knew exactly what they were doing.

These cards, as well as four other Secret Lair drops, will all be available to buy at the end of the month, August 27. Each drop will set you back $29.99 (yes, that is a lot of money for just a handful of cards), and if you want to get the shiny foil versions of the same cards, you'll have to fork over $39.99 a set. Those unfamiliar with Secret Lair might be a touch shocked at how much Wizards of the Coast charge for one twelfth of a Magic deck, but what are you gonna do, not buy these limited-time only cards that if you miss out on you'll have to pay even more for on the second hand market?

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The infinite debate about what is and isn't an immersive sim continues to rage on, as one of the co-creators of Dishonored says he thinks Skyrim is one.

Immersive sim, as a genre, is a really hard one to define. I'm not even going to try to define it in any meaningful way for you, I just know that games like Thief, Dishonored, and Deus Ex fit within that genre. It's a type of game that has major qualities of lots of other genres, which is why it can be hard to define. But in a recent interview with PC Gamer, Dishonored co-creator and Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio has shared the bold opinion that he thinks Skyrim is an immersive sim (and that Baldur's Gate 3 is "immersive-sim adjacent").

Explaining himself, Colantonio said "If you really think about it, Bethesda games - or Obsidian games - are very, very immersive sim. The overlap between first-person RPG and immersive sim, it's very blurry. I would say they are less physical than Arkane games, and they're more on the stats, but at the end of the day they totally rely on simulation. Doing things such as fooling a merchant by putting a bucket on its head is definitely an immersive same thing, right?"

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian Studios is hard at work on its next title, but the hit RPG is getting in the way of fresh ideas.

If you can believe it, it's already been a year since Baldur's Gate 3 came out of early access. I know, I know, the passage of time is a daily existential crisis, but let's put that to the side for the minute. Larian is still doing some work on the beloved RPG, with sign-ups for its upcoming seventh patch closed beta having gone live last month. That patch is due out in September, but of course, the studio is also working on a couple of new "very ambitious RPGs" with a Larian lead summit taking place early last month too. Except, as it turns out, coming up with new ideas is hard, especially when you put so many good ones in your previous game.

To commemorate the game's first anniversary, PC Gamer interviewed writing director Adam Smith about the game, and how coming up with ideas for the studios' next game is proving to be difficult. "One of the biggest problems we have now is that whenever we're talking about things, we say we did that in BG3," Smith said. "And it turns out, we did a lot of things in BG3 when we think back to it." This isn't actually a new problem for Larian, as apparently it also faced a similar issue with Baldur's Gate 3 and looking back to the Divinity: Original Sin games.

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UPDATE (25/07/24, 4:10 PM BST): Larian has confirmed that Baldur's Gate 3's Patch 7 Closed Beta is now live on Steam.

"If you were lucky enough to be randomly selected, check your Steam Library, and you should now be able to download the playtest," it writes, "Not everyone will have access, so we’d appreciate it if you could keep any spoilers to a minimum. We’ll be adding more players throughout the Closed Beta, so keep an eye on your Steam Library!"

If you've been looking forward to diving into Baldur's Gate 3 Patch 7's closed beta after securing your spot, there's some bad news. Unfortunately, Larian's had to delay it a bit, after the game's dice decided to stop working as intended while the developers were trying to resolve some other issues.

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We've just gotten a fresh update from Larian on Baldur's Gate 3's next big update, Patch 7, which is set to arrive in September. It seems like things are still very much on track for then, with the developer having teased a bunch more stuff that it'll include or facilitate, as well as announcing that PC players can now register for a chance to playtest it via a closed beta.

Thanks to previous community updates, we already know that the patch is set to bring with it a bunch of extra evil endings and the official modding tools folks have been waiting for.

If you think that means Larian's run out of stuff to talk about and tease in Community Update 28, however, you're very wrong. Let's start with the thing you can do right now, eh?

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This is not a drill. UK political memes look set to inflitrate the Fallout universe via Fallout 4 mod Fallout: London. Having already confirmed some pretty huge names voice acting-wise, the mod's Project Lead now looks to be suggesting a former MP known for yelling things is also on that list.

Back in February, we learned that the mod's cast includes Neil Newbon - the voice of Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion - and A Plague Tale: Requiem’s Anna Demetriou, with their names slotting in alongside the likes of the already announced Sylvester McCoy and Colin Baker. Yes, that's the sixth and seventh doctors from Doctor Who.

Now, over on the mod's Discord server, project lead Dean 'Prilladog' Carter looks to have revealed perhaps the weirdest addition to a mod's cast in the history of, well, modding via a "Little Amusing Update".

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has shared the origins of that viral bear sex scene that helped put the already popular RPG on everyone's radar.

I'll admit, while I had been aware of Baldur's Gate 3 for a good while, for the most part I wasn't all that interested in it. Then, all of a sudden, I see people talking about this game where you can have sex with one of the game's characters while they're transformed into a bear. That particular moment really helped propel Baldur's Gate 3 to its monumental success (though I imagine it still would have done well without it), and really showed how wild and weird things can get. Now, while at Brighton's Develop conference earlier this week speaking to Eurogamer, former Larian writer Baudelaire Welch has shared just how that scene came to be, and how it wasn't originally going to be that big of a thing.

When Welch joined Larian in 2020, partway through development, a lot of work had already been done, including for companion romances, but certain characters like Halsin weren't romanceable just yet. "I don't think there were specific plans for him to be a love interest," Welch explained. At the time, the community surrounding the game evidently wanted "daddy Halsin," which Welch knew because they were included in that community. Larian took note of that, and decided to explore what that looked like.

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian is pulling together its leads for a big summit "to discuss lift off", we assume on the studio's next couple of games. Where? Well in the same place it met to decide how to finish off BG3, because revisiting the same location a bunch of times in order to grind XP, find stuff you missed, or just admire the scenery again is something RPG folks are just hardwired to do.

Yup, while it's still working on some Baldur's Gate 3-related stuff ahead of Patch 7's arrival with some fresh endings and official modding support in September, Larian's also been busy teasing and putting stuff in place for its future projects.

The latest of these teases is a tweet (thanks, GamesRadar) from head honcho Swen Vincke, who was up nice and early this morning sharing a picture of the meeting room his studio's staff will be filing into today to- depending on your interpretation - talk about either rockets or video games.

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You're all probably quite desperate to smooch Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion in Stardew Valley, and hopefully by the end of the year you'll be able to.

Back in April, a small group of modders revealed that they're working on a mod for Stardew Valley all about last year's biggest game, Baldur's Gate 3. Planned characters included fan favourites like Astarion, Shadowheart, Gale and Halsin, with only the first and last characters listed there being romanceable. However, XunHe1145, one of the modders on the project, shared an update over the weekend that detailed when you can potentially expect the first part to be released, and some other new additions to it. "Although the release date has not been decided, there is a high probability that the first part will be released this fall or winter," wrote XunHe1145.

That'll obviously be exciting for the venn diagram of Stardew Valley and Baldur's Gate 3 fans, but it wasn't the only update offered about the mod. For one, there's some new stores, one of which is a restaurant managed by Rolan - or, well, more specifically, Rolan's Projection, similar to how the Projection serves you in Sorcerous Sundries. Rolan does appear himself, and he's not a marriable NPC, but he will appear occasionally on the map. The update also offered a reminder that only Astarion and Halsin are available for marriage, but once the first part of the mod is out, those that support the team's Patreon will be able to vote on who can be married next.

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“I was at a point where I didn't know what game to play and Baldur’s Gate 3 came to mind,” modder Hippp0o tells me.

“I already had more than 500 hours in [its] story mode and didn't really feel like starting a new campaign. I really only wanted to treat it like a turn-based combat simulator with my custom/modded characters. I knew a bit about the possibilities with [the] script extender and Lua isn't new to me. So, I quickly made up and coded the basic concept, which is still used in today's version of ToT - maps, scenarios and enemies. That was the original plan.”

This little bit of early concepting would eventually morph into Trials of Tav - ToT as Hippp0o referred to it there - a pretty huge BG3 mod that adds an entire standalone roguelike mode to the game, aimed squarely at those who, as the modder did, just fancy taking on wave after wave of foes with their party. After all, you can only take in so many deep camp conversations with Gale or head off on a charming little quest with Karlach so many times until you’re overcome with the desire to kill a bunch of stuff - preferably in a fashion that requires a bit less planning than your average dark urge puts in.

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Modders add a lot of cool stuff to their various games of choice, and this might be one of the coolest additions I've seen for any game in a while. A relatively new Baldur's Gate 3 mod casually gives the RPG an entire new mode, which allows you and your party to battle through waves of foes roguelike-style.

Yup, while we've still got a little bit to wait until Patch 7 brings the full release of BG3's official modding tools, along with a heap of other stuff, folks are already doing things that make you go 'what...really?'

'Trials of Tav - a roguelike mode', by modder Hippo0o, is definitely one of those things, given that it adds an entire standalone roguelike mode to the RPG. As you'd expect, the "combat-only mode lets you fight waves of enemies in progressively harder encounters. Doing so will net you random loot with rarity-based drop rates as well as a RogueScore and currency used to unlock powerful power-ups".

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Dragon Age: The Veilguard (God, I really dislike that title change) is almost here, finally. After an early scare because of a slightly confusing first trailer, that gameplay demo quelled many of our worries, but can it really escape Baldur's Gate 3's shadow?

I'm of the striking opinion that it already has... kind of. It's hard not to think about Larian's near-flawless RPG whenever the new Dragon Age is brought up (in fact, I already linked the two last year), yet all the in-depth previews and the gameplay presentation released to the public suggest we're looking at an entirely different breed of RPG, one that's doing its own thing.

In our own hands-on preview of the game, Alex already teased that "Dragon Age: The Veilguard is going to be a lot of things to a lot of people." And I think that's sums up the unorthodox series as a whole quite nicely. Anyone who claims Dragon Age hasn't evolved (or devolved) with each new entry is either lying or urgently needs to revisit not only Inquisition, but also Dragon Age 2 and Origins.

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Baldur's Gate 3's next big update, Patch 7, is set to arrive in September, bringing with it the previously teased extra evil endings and official modding tools. Between now and then, the latter'll be undergoing a series of tests, with the first of those kicking off today.

Yup, while Baldur's Gate 4 won't be coming from it, Larian's still got some not quite DLC-sized add-ons to make to its masterpiece. Gotta have something to do while you hunt for folks to fill out your cool new studio, I guess.

In community update 27, Larian provides a bunch of new details regarding exactly what the mod support roll-out entails and will look like ahead of Patch 7 arriving in September.

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Crunch is a widespread issue across the games industry, and as beloved as Larian Studios is, even it had to do some on Baldur's Gate 3.

Look, nobody likes to hear that their favourite studio crunched to make a game they love, but unfortunately that'll pretty much always be the case with big games. I wish it wasn't, and more should be done to circumvent it, but the game industry hasn't set itself up particularly well to avoid such issues. And unsurprisingly, one of last year's biggest games, Baldur's Gate 3, was subject to some crunching too, as admitted by game director and Larian CEO Swen Vincke in an interview with GamesRadar. When asked about whether the team had to work substantial overtime to hit deadlines, Vincke responded, "Certainly less on BG3 than we did in the past. It would be a lie to say that we didn't. We had things happen that we didn't foresee."

Vincke noted that in order to mitigate that, the numerous global studios that Larian had setup were there to ensure that the game had 24-hour coverage, making it so that no single person had to work more to fix a late-night problem. Just last week Larian set up a new Warsaw-based studio, which will be helping with the developer's next couple of "very ambitious RPGs". Vincke did also say that paid overtime did help soften the blow for anyone that did have to work late, though he also claims that crunch on Baldur's Gate 3 wasn't "as long as you would consider crunch." Offices would supposedly be almost empty beyond 8pm at night, and staff working weekends occurred "very, very, very rarely."

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Larian Studios isn't making the next Baldur's Gate, but the third game's narrative director doesn't care what it's like, as long as it's not made just for profit.

Look, we all know that for rights holders, executives, and the like, sequels and follow-ups to established IP are really just money makers. And with how well Baldur's Gate 3 has done since its 1.0 release last year, it's an entirely safe bet that someone will be making a sequel. That someone just won't be Larian, as it said as much earlier this year, even if it was something the studio was on board with once upon a time. Wizards of the Coast is currently looking into potential partners for future Baldur's Gate entries, though nothing is set in stone just yet, so you'll have to wait a little while longer. But in a recent interview with GamesRadar, narrative director Adam Smith shared his thoughts on a potential sequel.

Smith explained that he doesn't really care about what a sequel might look like, for him the priority is that whoever makes it, they're making it for the sake of passion rather than purely financial reasons. "I don't mean that in a harsh way," he said. "What I would want is for somebody to do it because they wanted to do it, not because somebody said 'that would hit our earnings next quarter.'"

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian has opened up a new studio in the Polish city of Warsaw. Why? Well, it's causally expanding its influence as it "ramps up" development on "two very ambitious RPGs" that we're definitely not all getting quite hyped up about.

Yup, while Baldur's Gate 4 won't be coming from the folks behind BG3, and the "very big RPG that will rule them all" that Swen Vincke's talked about seems like it's still a ways off, Larian's doing some growing.

Announced via a tweet, the new studio is called Larian Studios Warsaw, and is based, as you'd expect, in the Polish capital. "With two very ambitious RPGs now starting development," the developer wrote, "what better way to see our visions realised than by growing the team and opening a 7th studio in the heart of Poland’s lively gaming scene!"

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Love Stardew Valley and Baldur's Gate 3? You might be interested in this currently in-development mod that brings Astarian and more to Pelican Town.

Baldur's Gate 3 is obviously the game of 2023, and to be honest, might even be the game of 2024. And while it's a bit older, Stardew Valley sits in a similar boat of being a "forever game," so it makes perfect sense that someone would want to mod Baldur's Gate 3 characters into ConcernedApe's modern classic. That's exactly what XunHe1145 and their team of modders are setting out to do, with the appropriately named Baldur's Village project (thanks, PC Gamer). Describing the mod on Twitter, Xun wrote that they are "making a Stardew Valley mod that will include a new map and residents from Baldur's Gate 3. The characters we are currently working on include Astarion, Shadowheart, Gale and Halsin."

As of right now, Astarion is the only dateable character, and will also have a unique romance plot, given the small size of the team, but they will try to make more of them dateable if they can. So far, they've managed to make an independent map, Baldur's Village itself, with four different styles of buildings. And there's even some excellent looking artwork of Astarian and Shadowheart too. Right now the aim is to have the mod out before the first anniversary of Baldur's Gate 3's full release, but it's also looking for support on translation duties - the team is made up of simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese speakers, so they'll be looking for volunteers to help translate it in the future.

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Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future. We know that. It's, uh, far too busy teasing the mysterious new things it is actually working on, and casually announcing that more stuff's going to be added to BG3 soon.

Don't get your hopes up too much though, it'll be a while until we actually see those new things, especially the "very big RPG that will rule them all" that Swen Vincke's previously hyped up, which seems separate to what he's teasing this time. You know, much in the same way you'll have to wait to see what Wizards of the Coast will do with the Baldur's Gate IP going forwards.

In its latest community update, number 26, Larian does a bit of BAFTA reflecting, lets us all know what the main headlines of the upcoming patch 7 for BG3 will be, and teases its future. Jesus, three birds, one stone - you can see why the studio netted pretty much every GOTY award known to man. After confirming that it won't be doing the stuff I mentioned it won't be right at the start of this article, the update offers a fun little statement from Larian founder Swen Vincke about what the studio's currently working on.

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So, we've all had time to come to terms with the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future, even if those things might once have been on the cards. The good news is that Wizards of the Coast, which controls the IP, already looks to be in talks with folks who aren't Larian about what the next game in the series might look like.

Before you go and start getting ally hyped up, it sounds like it'll be a while until we actually see any new BG things actually materialise. Though, it's nice to know that you hopefully won't have aged over twenty years by the time they do arrive, assuming they, you know, actually do that.

Speaking to PC Gamer, Eugene Evans, the senior vice president of digital strategy and licensing for Wizards of the Coast and parent company Hasbro - which owns the IP - offered a bit of insight into where Baldur's Gate's future currently stands.

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Baldur's Gate 3 dev Larian definitely isn't making a sequel, but whatever its next game is, it will definitely go down the early access route.

Last month, many Baldur's Gate 3 fans across the world likely shed a tear when Larian CEO Swen Vincke said that the studio has no plans to make a sequel or even any expansions. Vincke shared that Larian will be moving on to something else, leaving the Baldur's Gate IP in the hands of its owners Wizards of the Coast to do something else with. Considering the fact that Baldur's Gate 3 is still regularly getting updates, and the full release isn't even a year old yet, it's unlikely we'll see what's next for Larian for a while yet, but in a recent interview with Game File (thanks, Kotaku), Larian's head of publishing Michael Douse did talk about release plans for the studio's follow-up.

Speaking of self-publishing and early access, Douse said "This is the only way to do it now." He went on to note how marketing has cratered, and that an early access release allows a developer to create "social resonance" while less and less games make a big impression on players. Important is that Douse doesn't say that this is something everyone can do, and if you don't know how to do it, don't just do so heedlessly, but it did help Larian work on Baldur's Gate's strong gameplay loop, as well as build a community. And for the next game, Douse said it "will also probably be in early access."

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Hello there again, Baldur's Gate 3 people. How are your lives going? Hold on, it'll have to wait, there's a newly released hotfix just arrived, and it does things, as per. This time, its stopping your gang's chill time from being prevented by a naughty walking brain.

Yep, after the last one stopped you from conning merchants out of their hard-earned cash using some sneaky box-based tricks, this one stops an NPC from pranking you. Life, you see, it moves in cycles and, as George Lucas might say, it sometimes rhymes. Ok, I'll stop it, since this is just a minor update to a video game.

The set of notes that accompanies hotfix 24 - which has gone live today - is quite snappy, so I'll keep it snappy from here on out, as I always do. The main news is this: Larian's "fixed an issue preventing you from taking a Short Rest when having added and dismissed Us with a companion party member and then loaded certain savegames."

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The other day — and don't worry, I've already secured permission to tell this story — I observed one of VG247's own, in a moment of ardour during a discussion of the wondrous merits of Dragon's Dogma 2, to utter the following statement: "F**k Baldur's Gate 3."

And fair enough, to each their own, but as I turned back to trudging the length and breadth of the twin kingdoms of Vermund and Battahl on foot (because there are no mounts or fast travel, in case you haven't heard), fighting off procedurally generated enemies every six or seven steps, my esteemed colleague's words made me realise something. I'm homesick for Faerûn.

Baldur's Gate 3 was one of my favourite games of 2023, but due to a number of circumstances — not least of which was the release of Dragon's Dogma 2 — I've only managed one proper play session since returning from my Christmas break. It's been in the back of my head for a while now that I missed it, but at this moment, I realised I was missing it a lot.

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Hello there, Baldur's Gate 3 people. We're doing this dance again. There's a newly released hotfix, and it does things. What things? Well, for one, it fixes a bunch of exploits involving containers that you'd previously been able to use to defraud the game's merchants.

Yep, after the last hotfix helped out the not quite evil Minthara romancers who'd been getting rejected by her in really quite brutal - although to be fair this is Minty we're talking about - fashion, a new one's arrived to save some NPCs from you instead. Though to be fair, you're no longer in danger of getting permananetly trapped in conversation with Lae'zel like she's an in-law you've been seated next to at a wedding, so both sides are benefitting here.

If you take a peek in the full set of notes for hotfix 23 - which has gone live today - Larian's described all the downright sneaky methods folks have been using to save or score some extra gold. The studio's whacked bugs that allowed you to "generate gold by buying multiple items but only paying for one of them if you dragged the items into a container" and acquire "a stack of items for free when dragging the stack into a container and using the item splitter".

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Baldur's Gate 3's developers did a whole bunch of planning to ensure the player couldn't totally ruin the game's story if they randomly decided to murder every single NPC, but not even Swen Vincke predicted that speedrunners would literally bounce through the entire thing.

To be fair, did any of us? It feels like every time we've watched one of these madcap dashes through Larian's RPG, there's been a new and very weird strategy on display. From, the now infamous 'Shadowboxing' strategy to flying stealth bear one-shots, it's a shame we aren't going to get see what kinds of ways folks could have worked out to speed up the process of shagging a bear all over again, since Baldur's Gate 4 isn't going to be a thing.

Vincke, BG3's director, discussed how he's found watching people make a very entertaining mockery of his game in the name of pure speed during an interview with IGN that also saw him discuss why the studio elected to scrap some DLC for the game it'd started working on, before pivoting away from that idea. "No, no, I didn't expect them to do it that way," Vincke said of the folks who first cracked under the ten-minute mark speedrun wise by using Gale to bounce through the game way faster than you could ever run.

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Hi there. It’s Friday afternoon, everyone's being very loud about Dragon’s Dogma 2 and I’m about to tell you about something that’s kinda disgusting. It’s about Stardew Valley. People are racing to drink mayonnaise in it as fast as they can.

Yeah, this is what life is now, apparently.

First, here’s some background info on how we got here. In 2016, Stardew Valley became a thing. In March 2024, we learned that drinking mayonnaise in Stardew Valley would be becoming a thing. Then, with the release of Stardew Valley’s 1.6 update, it became a thing. Then, lots of people flocked to the game, probably to drink mayonnaise. Now, people are seeing just how fast they can reach the mayonnaise and drink it. Soon, we’ll all be dead.

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So, Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian isn’t doing any DLC for the game, or a Baldur’s Gate 4, or anything to do with D&D in the near future. It’s ok, stop crying. As it turns out, CEO Swen Vincke was once on board with some of those ideas, but now he’s got his eyes on creating "a very big RPG that will rule them all", well, as soon as the tech it’ll need is actually a thing.

Yup, the thing you were salivating over isn’t going to be a thing, but it’s ok, there’s a new thing vaguely floating on the horizon for you to salivate over, praise be. To be fair, having just grabbed yet more hardware during the GDC awards, Larian’s earned a chance to pursue its interesting pipe dreams and mysterious ideas, though that seemingly wasn’t always the plan.

Speaking to GameSpot, Vincke’s given a bit more context to yesterday’s big announcement, and how Larian arrived at the point where it was so sure that it wasn’t in the making DLC for and following up on one big success kind of studio. “When it came to BG3, everybody was telling me ‘you gotta make DLC’, you’ve gotta make DLC, and really you should be starting on a sequel,” Vincke recalled, adding that, as you’d expect, this was powered by the game’s success and money-making ability.

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Larian will not be working on Baldur's Gate 4, or any expansions for Baldur's Gate 3, it has just been revealed.

This information comes from the CEO of Larian himself - Swen Vincke. Hosting a talk at GDC 2024 titled "The secrets of Baldur's Gate 3", he closed with this bombshell after roughly an hour of development discussion, funny storys, and revelations about work left on the cutting room floor.

"I told you at the beginning that we were a company of big ideas" Vincke said. "We are not a company that is made to create DLCS [or] expansions. We tried that actually a few times, it failed every time. It's not worth it. Life is too short, and our ambitions are very large, but like Gustaf (the dog whose name was attributed to Baldur's Gate 3 during development) it was always have a warm place in our hearts."

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Baldur's Gate 3 director Swen Vincke has just hosted a bombshell Baldur's Gate 3 talk at GDC 2023, peeling back the curtain at the development process of the GDCA game of the year winner. One of the secrets he spilt was that at one point during early development, the team wanted there to be multiple dungeons masters narrating the game... Including Matt Mercer.

This revelation came during an anecdote about the early ambition of the game, including the desire to make cinematics a major part of the Baldur's Gate 3 experience.

"You'll notice that Divininty: Original Sin 2 had this narrator - this dungeon master. We said you know what, we should make that the thing for Baldur's Gate 3 also". Sven stated in front of a live GDC crowd. He'd go on to showcase a very early cinematic of Minsc, with a narrator providing the running commentary on his actions, even going as far as adding an 'he barks' following Minsc's line.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has taken the Game of the Year award at the 2024 Games Developer Choice Awards, beating out Cocoon, Dredge, Marvel's Spiderman 2 and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom.

The awards were given out at the 24th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDC Awards), in front of an audience of developers, industry professionals, and press attending the annual GDC Conference in San Francisco.

Baldur's Gate 3 also took home awards in Best Design, Best Narrative, and the Audience Award. Nominees for the latter are selected from the list of finalist games from every Main Category with the winner chosen through a public vote.

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Do you like Baldur's Gate 3? Do you also like Vampire Survivors? Well, Larian’s CEO has brought up the idea of a crossover between the two, via a poll that I think is a bit disgraceful as far as polls go.

Yup, now that the studio’s stopped poor BG3 Dark Urge players from being unceremoniously dumped by Minthara whenever they decide to, you know, stop being quite so evil, it seems like it’s full steam ahead on what’s next, which could be a fun collab. Or, you know, maybe Swen Vincke just wanted to cheekily tell us he’s hanging out with some cool people.

Ok, so what’s happened is this. Vincke posted a twitter poll asking “Should Baldur’s Gate 3 and Vampire Survivors collaborate?”, and followed it up shortly afterwards with a nice picture of him and Geo Morgan, Poncle's lead partnership manager, just chilling and giving a nice thumbs up. So far, so very ‘this is a thing, I guess, and maybe it’ll actually lead to something’, right?

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Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead.

What's crack-a-lacking, fellow Baldur's Gate 3 enjoyers? A freshly released hotfix, that's what! So, what does it do? Well, it's thanfully put a stop to the sad and sudden breakups a lot of Dark Urge players had been facing when the usually wonderful Minthara found out they'd sad 'er, nah' to Bhaal.

Yep, not quite evil Minty fans, you've been saved from having your lovely romance arcs ended without warning by the kind of speech you'd only give after booking a table in a restaurant so fancy that it's far above the 'it's not you, it's me' threshold of required make-up luxury. Oh, and this fix also finally brings the last couple that've gone live without hitting Xbox to Microsoft consoles, hopefully resolving some issues with cross-saves in the process.

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In the latter half of Baldur's Gate 3, as you enter the outskirts of the city of Baldur’s Gate at the start of Act 3, your journey towards defeating the Absolute is far from finished. Just one of the many interconnected side quests you have yet to discover sees you investigate the suspicious toys and fireworks coming out of Arfur Gregorio’s workshop.

At the front of Rivington, you walk into a commotion outside a house. Ben Golewits is telling Arfur Gregorio to leave his family alone, whereas the latter maintains the building is his house.

An insight check tells you that there’s more to the situation than Arfur is letting on. This means the “good” option is to push the toymaker into sharing, but the best choice for your character depends on the characters you’re travelling with and whether they like you being nice or mean.

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Underneath Rivington in Baldur's Gate 3, a bit of spelunking sees your party interrupt a standoff on a beach next to the city’s bay. Cutthroats from the thieves’ guild are facing off against followers of the mysterious Stone Lord for control of an illicit shipment coming in from the coast.

But up to this point, since you’re yet to meet either of the bosses behind these two factions, it can be unclear which to throw your lot in with. So, to help you make a decision, here’s what happens if you side with the Thieves' Guild or the Stone Lord on the beach.

Either from the cliffs north of Rivington or the caves below the Open Hand Temple, climb down the cragged rock and you find a cave mouth on the coast.

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Outside of its sprawling main story, Baldur's Gate 3 is home to a huge variety of side quests and smaller interactions. One of the most mysterious sees you bringing a Sentient Amulet with the spirit of a Monk inside back to see its lost family.

Next to the Adamantine Forge in Grymforge, guarded by an elemental in the middle of a pool of magma, you find the Sentient Amulet of a cursed, laughing monk. Pass the checks and saving throws, and ignore the protestations of your allies, to add the amulet to your inventory.

You won’t arrive at where you need to use it for a long time, but it’s a worthwhile quest to undertake all the same.

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After solving the start of the mystery in Rivington, your work investigating the murders in Baldur's Gate 3 is far from over.

To continue the “investigate the murders” quest, after solving the Open Hand Temple murders you need to speak to Gauntlet Devella upstairs in the Elfsong tavern - it’s near the Basilisk Gate fast travel point.

Approach the stairs and speak to the Fists guarding the bottom. Say that you’ve been sent by the Investigator and need to speak to the Gauntlet and they let you pass.

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Even as the Cult of the Absolute threatens to destroy the city at the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, its unsuspecting citizens can still enjoy the magical Circus of the Last Days, for a little while, at least.

One of the Circus' most famous performers is Dribbles the Clown, a legendary entertainer who draws crowds wherever he goes. But as you investigate the Circus it quickly becomes apparent that something is amiss. Before the Circus can leave town, your party is tasked with finding Dribbles' missing body parts, so he can be given a proper burial.

There are 7 pieces of Dribbles to find in total, including:

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The magical world of Baldur's Gate 3 is filled with mysteries, but throughout the game your party is also tasked with plenty of more down-to-earth investigations. At the Open Hand Temple in Rivington, Father Lorgan has been murdered.

But with tensions between the local citizens and incoming refugees running high in the face of the Absolute, when your party arrives it looks like the prime suspect was chosen not because they were truly responsible for Father Lorgan’s murder, but because they fit the convenient narrative.

On the West side of Rivington, the Open Hand Temple is also where you need to take the sentient amulet you found in Grymforge during Act 1, but finding the real killer is your main challenge.

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Underneath the bustling city of Baldur’s Gate lies a sleeping dragon, waiting to be called upon to help in the climactic battle at the end of Baldur's Gate 3. But if you’re going to count the Wyrm amongst your growing roster of allies, then you will need to complete the cunning Wyrmway puzzles first.

After you’ve saved him from the Iron Throne prison, seeing the error of his ways, Duke Ulder Ravengard implores Wyll for forgiveness. He then asks your party to complete the important mission he was on before he was captured: finding a way to call upon the hidden protector of Baldur’s Gate.

See, there’s a wyrm beneath the city, a powerful guardian who can be called upon in times of great need, and you can raise him as an ally to your cause against the Absolute.

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Across the deep and varied sidestories of Baldur's Gate 3, numerous characters reappear in new places with new quests to complete. But when you reach the Lower City, one character you might not have been expecting to meet back up with is Omeluum, the enlightened Mind-flayer who sent you to the Arcane Tower in the Underdark.

In the Lodge of the Society of Brilliance, which is just south of the Baldur’s Gate warp point, you meet another old friend from the Underdark, the hobgoblin Blurg. Speak to him and ask after the mind-flayer, Omeluum. They apparently went into the field to find more tadpole-infected people, but have since lost touch with the other society members.

Offer to track Omeluum down and Blurg tells you that they’re most likely somewhere within the city walls, absorbed in their work.

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Deep underwater, off the coast of the city of Baldur’s Gate, lies the Iron Throne prison, a mechanical marvel constructed at the behest of Lord Enver Gortash to house his most valuable prisoners.

As you reach the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, you get the chance to save everyone inside the Iron Throne, but at the cost of breaking any alliance you’ve forged with the contemptible Lord Gortash up to this point.

There are many key characters housed in the Iron Throne, and it’s the culmination of several side quests and companion missions. It’s possible to save all of them, but it’s still very tough.

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At the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, the devious Lord Gortash has overtaken the city of Baldur’s Gate, installing himself as Archduke in the chaos surrounding the impending invasion of the Absolute.

While much of the city’s business ticks along as it always did, Gortash rules the streets with an iron fist, literally. His mechanical automaton police force, the Steel Watch, keep a constant and oppressive eye on regular citizens, ready to arrest dissenters.

If you’re going to defeat Gortash and bring an end to his tyranny, then you’re going to need to destroy his Steel Watch first.

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In Baldur's Gate 3, you might be the world’s greatest hope to stop the Cult of the Absolute, but that doesn’t stop you from turning sleuth on multiple occasions throughout your adventure.

In the Water Queen’s House in the southwest corner of the city, you get a quest from Flood Tide Allandra Grey to avenge the drowned priestess who lost her life in the bay next to the Lower City.

As the water priestess took her daily swim, she was apparently attacked in the Grey Harbour by a poisonous beast.

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As you finally reach the walled city in Baldur's Gate 3, many of the game’s long-running quests reach their climax. One such quest is Shadowheart’s storyline, which takes you to the House of Grief, a Sharran temple using a funeral parlour as a front.

To advance Shadowheart’s quest, you find the House of Grief is in the far northwest of the Lower City, next to the Baldur’s Gate Sigil Circle fast travel point. It’s close to another of your main companion quest locations, Szarr’s Palace.

Make sure you have Shadowheart in your party, and have plenty of health and spell slots to spare. Then, when you’re ready, approach the House of Grief.

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Of all the wicked characters you meet throughout Baldur's Gate 3, few are as evil as the vampire lord Cazador Szarr. With Astarion in tow, once you reach the Lower City it’s time to face Cazador head on and put a stop to his legacy of villainy.

However, Cazador didn’t get to be the head of a bloodthirsty brood of vampires by being a pushover.

Defeating him inside his own home, Szarr’s Palace, will not be a simple task unless you’re well prepared.

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Despite the world-altering stakes of your main quest in Baldur's Gate 3, your party can still choose to lend a hand wherever it’s needed. So when a woman named Lora desperately needs help to find Vanra, her missing daughter, you can offer to step up and aid with her search.

In the Basilisk Gate Flaming Fist garrison, you see Lora berating the officers for their lack of sympathy and awareness. Apparently, Vanra was last seen down by the Blushing Mermaid pub, near the docks, so make your way down to the large ship to investigate.

Speak to the barman and the patrons outside. When their stories don’t seem to add up, resolve to speak to the owner and head upstairs to the back of the pub.

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One of the most mysterious and memorable characters in all of Baldur's Gate 3 is the charismatic cambion Raphael. From his magical manor, the House of Hope, he pulls the strings of mortals’ lives from the shadows, always finding a way to strike a deal that benefits him in the end.

Raphael is key to many quests throughout your adventure, not just your mission to defeat the Absolute. He’s taken an interest in the tiefling thief, Mol, for instance, and also has possession of the Orphic Hammer, the only artifact that can free Prince Orpheus from imprisonment inside the Astral Prism.

If you don’t want to help Raphael’s machinations come to fruition and want to take hold of the Orphic Hammer on your own terms, then you will need to find a way into the legendary House of Hope. Then, once you’re inside, the hard part starts: getting out alive.

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As a recurring character throughout Baldur's Gate 3, Mol, the entrepreneurial leader of a gang of tiefling children you first meet in the Druids’ Grove, quickly ingratiates herself in with your party.

So when she goes missing in Ketheric’s raid on the Last Light Inn, alongside your world-shaping work to defeat the Cult of the Absolute and other main quests, you also make a journal entry to find Mol.

However, finding Mol is quite a confusing quest, since it’s very easy to think you’ve done something wrong once the trail goes cold. Here’s what you need to know!

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After teaming up with the legendary Harper, Jaheira, in Baldur's Gate 3, she confides in you that her friend, the equally legendary Minsc of Rashemen is missing.

But as you search the city, a difficult truth becomes clear: Minsc has not only been taken by the Cult of the Absolute, but has likely been swayed into joining their ranks.

What’s more, the mysterious Stone Lord has set up shop in Baldur’s Gate, competing to overthrow the Thieves' Guild and disrupt the delicate balance of power within the city.

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At the intersection of two big quests in Baldur's Gate 3, your party is tasked with both finding the legendary hero Minsc of Rashemen for Jaheira and aiding the Underduke of the Thieves' Guild against the mysterious Stone Lord. The trail of both leads to a heist at the Counting House bank in the Lower City, where a trap has been laid to defeat the Stone Lord for good.

In the Undercellar, the lair of the Thieves’ Guild, you speak to their leader, Nine Fingers Keene. She’s heavily guarded and in deep conversation with an accountant. It seems like their protection racket is falling apart, but when you’re noticed conversation turns to you.

Your reputation precedes you, and Keene wants you to help the Guild push back against the Cult of the Absolute and their new ally, the Stone Lord. This is a perfect opportunity for you to rally more help to your cause and gather allies as the Emperor bade you, so ask what you can do to help.

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The mysterious mage Lorroakan is one of the more enigmatic figures in Baldur's Gate 3. His reputation precedes him, both in posting a bounty to find the Nightsong and as a potential mentor to Rolan, the tiefling wizard you meet in the Druids’ Grove.

When you reach Sorcerous Sundries in Act 3, it’s finally time to parley with Lorroakan and find out what he really wants with the legendary Dame Aylin.

While this quest can play out quite differently based on how you’ve played Baldur’s Gate 3 up to this point, we’ll assume that both Aradin, the mercenary who gives you the contract to find the Nightsong and the tiefling wizard Rolan are still alive. Either way though, the core of the quest, and Lorroakan’s motives remain the same regardless.

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Across the vast and intricate world of Baldur's Gate 3, some secrets you find early on in your adventure aren’t fully revealed until it’s almost at its end. In a Necromancer’s cellar in the Blighted Village, you find the eldritch Necromancy of Thay, an evil book filled with the kind of knowledge it’s best not to know.

But, if you do want to conquer the powerful magic the Necromancy of Thay has to offer, here’s everything you need to know.

If you think evil magic is best destroyed, then it is possible to burn the book without reading it. First, place the Necromancy of Thay on the ground, then hit it with a spell or weapon that deals Radiant damage.

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If you thought Baldur's Gate 3 was anywhere close to wrapping up when you reach the Lower City, you’ve got another thing coming. The labyrinthine streets and dark alleyways of the city are home to a huge and diverse array of secrets, including a magical vault inside of Sorcerous Sundries, full of powerful artefacts to plunder.

Approach Sorcerous Sundries and, more so than almost anywhere else in the city, the shop will be quite different depending on your choices in the game so far.

If he survived, you will find Aradin from Act 1 shouting at an enchanted robot. He wants his cut of the contract and seems to suggest that Lorroakan really is looking to capture the Nightsong, rather than set her free as you might have imagined.

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When the Cult of the Absolute’s influence in Baldur's Gate 3 stretches to the capital’s peacekeepers, your mission to take them down often puts you on the wrong side of the law.

With the city of Baldur’s Gate enthralled by Lord Gortash, any interaction with his mechanised Steel Watch is an easy ticket to jail. Luckily though, there’s a magical method for escaping Wyrm’s Rock Prison, all you need to do is guess all of the skull’s riddle answers correctly.

Here’s everything you need to know!

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One of the leaders of the Flaming Fists, Counsellor Florrick, is in trouble once again as your reach Act 3 of Baldur's Gate 3.

With Duke Ulder Ravengard beguiled by the Cult, Florrick has been thrown in jail and sentenced to death. You already saved her alongside the trapped man at Waukeen's Rest back in Act 1, but now it’s up to your party to grant her a stay of execution and break her out of Wyrm’s Rock Fortress.

But while that might seem like a pretty mammoth undertaking, it’s actually a bit easier than you might expect. Then, with Florrick free and ready to fight, you have a powerful ally within the city’s Flaming Fists to aid you in the battle against the Absolute. Here’s what you need to know!

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As you approach the climax of Baldur's Gate 3, you learn more and more about the enigmatic Emperor and their relationship with the wider city before you met. Then, once you reach the Lower City, they get in touch to let you know about their old hideout, filled with potentially useful items that could aid your mission.

But, as with all things in Baldur’s Gate 3, finding the Emperor’s Hideout isn’t as straightforward as it first appears. Here’s how to make your way inside.

At the Elfsong Tavern, which is next to the Basilisk Gate Sigil Circle fast travel point, the Emperor telepathically tells you about their old lodgings in the basement of the pub.

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Around the South Span Gate in Baldur's Gate 3, you find one of the pillars of any thriving city: the post office. Head inside the Sword Coast Couriers and you’re asked to track down a sackload of missing letters, but it’s not immediately clear where you’re supposed to look.

Inside the Sword Coast Couriers, speak to Danzo. If you picked them up from the unfortunate courier you found outside the Blighted Village in Act 1 - the place where you find the Necromancy of Thay - you can hand them over to Danzo.

After that introduction, he tells you that his carrier pigeons and the letters they’ve been carrying have been going missing.

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As you investigate the Shadow-cursed lands for a way to circumvent Ketheric Thorm’s immortality in Baldur's Gate 3, your search leads you to the Thorm mausoleum in the north of the town of Reithwin.

The cemetery outside is a mysterious place filled with intrigue, not to mention returning characters for a number of great quests, but to unlock the secrets inside the Thorm Mausoleum, you need to solve an intricate painting puzzle.

Hot on the trail of the enigmatic Nightsong, and resolved to continue your investigation, the only way forward is to find a solution.

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After successfully saving the tieflings in the Druid Grove and Wulbren's Ironblood Gnomes from Grymforge in Baldur's Gate 3, the former will have made their way through the Shadow Cursed Lands and set up a temporary home at the Last Light Inn. Alas, you’ll soon learn that this journey didn’t go smoothly, as some of the tieflings have been captured and taken to Moonrise Towers.

So, it then becomes your job to go and rescue the tieflings from Moonrise Towers, and while you’re at it, you’ll need to consider Wulbren and finding Zevlor, too. Without further ado, here’s how to rescue Wulbren and the Tieflings from Moonrise Towers.

First things first, to kick off the quest to rescue the tieflings from Moonrise Towers, you’ll want to speak with Cerys and/or Alfira at the Last Light Inn. Both of them will inform you that some of the tieflings were captured, and will request your help with rescuing them from the Cult of the Absolute.

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Ok, so another Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix arrived yesterday and, well, I’m sorry to say that it and its predecessor, hotfix 20, don’t seem to have marked an end to the string of little issues that've plagued poor Minthara. In fact, this latest update looks to have enacted a change to her romance arc that players are desperately trying to rationalise.

Yep, following the arrival of patch 6 and all of its new stuff - some of which was related to kissing people right on the bonce - it’s been a tough time to be a big stan of the companion I simply refuse to stop referring to as though she’s toothpaste (Larian did it first, to be fair). What’s up this time? Well, they’re all having a Bhaa-d time working out why they’re being rejected by the posh Drow.

Seriously though, hotfix 21, the full notes for which you can find here, seems to have tweaked poor Minthara so that she’ll instantly end it with any Dark Urge character she’s dating if they choose to reject Bhaal and redeem themselves. That said, in a weird twist, at least one person seems to reporting that they can still kiss the companion after she’s straight-up told them in no uncertain terms that she’s done with them, the romance is dead, and there’ll be no bed sharing any more, as you can see in the clip below.

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The player's choice nominees for the BAFTA game awards have been announced, and feature a wall-to-wall roster of absolute bangers for the public to pick a champion from. As the last major video game awards show for 2023 heavy-hitters, this could be the last chance for some of these games to take home a trophy come April.

Members of the British public can head to the BAFTA website to cast their vote. Sorry Americans, but you need a British phone number to register, which the BAFTAs will also use to sign voters up for a prize draw. The BAFTAs are one of the few good things we have left on misery island so don't feel too sour.

The games up for voting include:

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Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 lie ahead.

Would you look at that, another Baldur's Gate 3 hotfix is inbound and Larian says it should hopefully get here by the end of this week. It’s also revealed that it’ll fix one issue with Minthara, but players who love travelling with the posh Drow are hoping it’ll also whack another that’s a bit more annoying.

Yep, following the arrival of patch 6 and all of its new stuff - some of which was related to kissing people right on the bonce - we’ve had a couple of hotfixes that’ve taken out a host of issues that’ve cropped up. Unfortunately, it looks like there’s one issue with the slightly evil, but also hilarious Minthara that’s managed to fly under the radar.

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If you weren’t aware, Larian is currently working on bringing mod support to Baldur's Gate 3, but it seems that - when it comes to mods - it's recently had to deal with some unpleasant behaviour that the game’s developers and community staff shouldn’t have to put up with from a few folks within the community.

Yep, following the reveal late last week that the studio is putting together “a robust, cross-platform plan for [BG3] mod support”, which it hopes to release later this year, Larian’s publishing director, Michael Douse, has had to address how Larian might have to change its approach to comms if folks don’t play nice.

“We’ll be talking in-depth about what our mod support will look like soon. Been working on it since launch,” Douse posted, “As always, we’ll discuss it in our way with our community. Threats & toxicity against our devs & community teams will only harm the conversation. Please stop that.”

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If you like the idea of playing Baldur's Gate 3 with mods - and why wouldn’t you, even if they can currently sometimes be a source of post-patch issues - then you’ll probably be glad to hear that Larian’s currently working on “a robust, cross-platform plan for [BG3] mod support” that it hopes to release later this year.

Yup, no matter whether you’re in the mood for some fresh character classes or a bit of extra companion chatter, mods have been delivering that for plenty of PC players since the game came out, but it looks like Larian could well be planning to let console players in on the fun in some fashion. The studio’s also continuing to whack the minor in-game issues that’ve popped up for some players following the arrival of Patch 6.

In a tweet following the deployment of Hotfix 19, Larian’s publishing director, Michael Douse, wrote: “We generally don’t talk about things [until] they’re ready, but as you may have read, we’re making an exception. We’ve been working on a robust, cross-platform plan for mod support to be released later in [the] year. We love our modding community and we want to support them. It’s coming.”

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If you’ve run into any weird or annoying issues when trying to buy or sell things in Baldur's Gate 3 following the arrival of Patch 6, have no fear, a small hotfix is here. And hopefully it should end your woes.

It’d been a little while since we last got a properly beefy patch for Larian’s RPG prior to Patch 6’s delivery of some new kissing options, idle animations, and the chance to rearrange your party without having to do as much admin late last week. Sadly, it looks like it ended up leading to some unintended minor issues immediately following its deployment, but a new hotfix has arrived swiftly to solve them.

You’ll be glad to know that the notes for hotfix 18 - which is now live - are nowhere near as long as Patch 6’s, mainly due to the fact only two bugs have been swatted. Both fixes concern vendors, with the first preventing “an issue that would cause vendors to initially display their current gold amount as zero”. Yup, the recession in BG3 is over, even if it isn’t in the real UK.

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The team behind Fallout: London has put out another update video, and it looks like this could well be the final one we get ahead of the huge mod’s release on April 23. Among the fresh info dropped as part of it was a rundown of some of the mod’s voice cast, which includes a name Baldur's Gate 3 fans will definitely be familiar with.

If you’re out of the loop on Fallout: London, it’s a massive, full game-ish sized Fallout 4 modding project that’s set to let you explore the ruins of the English capital. It’s been in the works for a few years now, with the team behind it having offered plenty of sneak peeks and info drops during development, including a recent panel at modding event C3.

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Good news, people who like watching their Tav munch on the lips of Baldur's Gate 3’s gang of companions (we’re not judging btw), Patch 6 for the game is now live, following enough teases to kill someone.

It’s been a little while since we last got a properly beefy patch for Larian’s RPG, with the late November one that brought the game a new epilogue and its fearsome honour mode being the most recent non-hotfix update for the game. To be fair Larian has had some save and ban issues to sort out on Xbox since that point, so it’s been busy.

But forget all of that, here's Patch 6's full notes! The highlights include now being able to "dismiss a recruited companion from your party while speaking to the companion you want to replace them with", a bunch of new camp idle animations, and an array of new kissing options.

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Baldur's Gate 3 has taken home the Game of the Year award at the 27th annual DICE Awards, securing one final trophy for Larian's astounding 2023 release. In addition, the game managed to secure Best RPG, as well as the Outstanding Achievement in Story award.

The DICE Awards, hosted at the Aria Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, was the latest edition of an event that acts as the last major awards show for the previous year, and is held in high regard among game developers. It presented a variety of important awards to last year's biggest games, including awards for genre champions and excellence in specific fields (game design, music composition, etc).

Baldur's Gate 3 took home a whopping five awards in total, including Game of the Year, but it actually wasn't the game that won the most accolades. That title goes to Marvel's Spider-Man 2, which managed to overcome its disappointing performance at The Game Awards back in December and web up six DICE awards. A nice payoff for a game that had previously secured much praise from critics and the public, but not from the big awards shows.

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A Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has beaten the game’s formidably tough Honour mode in under 20 minutes, as part of a valiant crusade against the very idea of video games taking less time than it takes one of your grandparents to persuade their body to leave a comfy armchair.

Whether it’s managing to bed Lae’zel in a fashion that even one of Larian’s romance quest designers thinks is cool or finding a way to rapidly get it on with Halsin in bear form, if you aren’t familiar with BG3’s speedrunning community by now, I’m not quite sure what to say. That is, aside from the phrase ‘what this latest work of art and tell me how you feel about how crap you are at Larian’s RPG in comparison’.

Following on from fellow runner Chronos’s efforts to make everyone who’s tried the mode re-evaluate their talents, Mae’s casually become the first person to coast through it in less than twenty minutes. Their official time was 19 minutes and 32 seconds, a nice little improvement on the 21 minute and 17 second run they notched just a couple of weeks ago.

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Good news, people who like watching their Tav munch on the lips of Baldur's Gate 3’s gang of companions (we’re not judging, by the way), the game’s next patch is inbound next week and it looks like it’ll let you casually plant a big wet smooch on the foreheads of your favourite party members.

It’s been a little while since we last got a properly beefy patch for Larian’s RPG, with the late November one that brought the game a new epilogue and its fearsome honour mode being the most recent non-hotfix update for the game. To be fair Larian has had some save and ban issues to sort out on Xbox since that point, so it’s been busy.

Now, though, we’re back in business! Patch number 6 for the game has now been confirmed to be coming next week, and as you can see in the video Larian’s included with its announcement of that, forehead kisses are on the menu. Alongside these “improved smooches”, you can look forward to “new camp idle animations, new legendary actions in honour mode, and plenty of bug fixes.”

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Are you sitting down? Good. Xbox is reportedly considering bringing Indiana Jones and the Great Circle and Starfield to PS5 down the line.

Hopefully you’ve managed to hear that without firing up Twitter or your email service of choice to type out an angry/disappointed message either aimed at Xbox’s execs or simply declaring that the sky is falling. Especially if you did something similar after seeing those reports about Hi-Fi Rush last week.

Yup, The Verge has reported that Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which we got a nice first look at during the most recent Developer Direct, could be coming to PS5 sometime after it hits Xbox and PC later this year. Apparently this is just one part of a fresh strategy from Xbox that’ll see the publisher put out more of the games it'd previously used as exclusives across multiple platforms.

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Following a report which suggested Hasbro had been in discussions with Tencent and Baldur's Gate 3 developer Larian regarding a planned sale of the Dungeons & Dragons IP, Wizards of the Coast has denied that it’s looking to execute such a sale.

If you weren’t aware, the rights to D&D currently belong to the toy giant, which Wizards of the Coast - the publisher behind Magic: The Gathering - is a subsidiary of. Given how strongly Baldur’s Gate 3, as a tabletop-style CRPG, has clearly been influenced by people sitting around with their mates and some dice, it’s not surprising to see it and D&D mentioned together, but Wizards of the Coast has suggested it’s planning to hang on to the latter for the time being.

Speculation regarding Hasbro’s plans for the IP has been kicked off by a report from Pandaily, which claims that Hasbro approached Larian Studios about potentially buying it, but was referred on to Chinese megacorp Tencent by the BG3 developer, reportedly due to Larian lacking the kind of cash to make what would be a pricey IP deal. If you’re not aware how Tencent might factor into this corporate chess wise, a 30% stake in Larian is part of the company’s numerous holdings in the games industry, which are headlined by the fact it owns League of Legends developer Riot Games.

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Baldur's Gate 3 speedruns have been a near endless source of entertainment for a good while now, with the latest milestone to have been achieved by runners being a sub-20 minute all acts playthrough. Oh, and Ketheric Thorm is casually one-shotted by a flying bear midway through it.

Whether it’s managing to bed Lae’zel in a fashion that even one of Larian’s romance quest designers thinks is cool, quickly dispatching honour mode in under 40 minutes, or, best of all, finding a way to rapidly get it on with Halsin in bear form, the community’s put out plenty of videos that you need to show your BG3-loving mates if you haven’t already. The latest of these, funnily enough, also involves bears.

Yup, runner Mae is still doing great things, having just managed to record the world’s first all acts BG3 run that clocks in under twenty minutes. Amusingly, the runner revealed on their Discord server that they first managed to pull off this feat in unrecorded and therefore unofficial fashion in the practice room at this year’s Awesome Games Done Quick event, adding: “So I decided I would simply do it again.”

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Following its appearance at the recent Xbox Developer Direct, Obsidian has offered some fresh insight into what players will be in for when they delve into its upcoming fantasy RPG Avowed. The answers, you’ll no doubt be glad to hear, mention a lot of the stuff that people have loved in the likes of Baldur's Gate 3.

Yes, we’re now at the point at which every big RPG that comes out is inevitably going to be likened at least a little bit to Larian’s big tadpole-infested baby, especially if sounds like it’ll let people spend ages wandering around in search of things and chewing the ears off of NPCs. However, in this case it sounds like that might be warranted, even if it’s just because we don’t feel as comfortable saying non-spacey/CRPG-style things are a bit like The Outer Worlds.

In the Xbox Wire write-up that arrived alongside an Official Xbox Podcast episode featuring an extended look at the quest gameplay we saw at the Direct, Avowed’s game director Carrie Patel said that there’ll be plenty of stuff in it that you can easily miss in Eora. According to Patel, that quest itself “is entirely discoverable, which means it’s also entirely missable” as you navigate the game’s world, which is made up of open zones that are “comparable [size-wise] to The Outer Worlds areas on the larger side”.

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If you feel bad about some of the embarrassing or painful deaths your party has suffered in Baldur's Gate 3, it’s well worth checking out how one poor streamer’s attempt to complete an honour mode playthrough as honourably as possible ended. Tragically is the answer, in case you’re wondering.

For the uninitiated, BG3’s honour mode, added to the game late last year, is designed to provide a hardcore challenge for those who just aren’t satisfied by difficulty levels that don’t feel a bit like shoving your nose into a toaster’s bread slot and turning it on. There’s permadeath, a bunch of other stuff with bad vibes, and - up until recently - the threat of getting permanently stuck if you left your hammer at home.

Yet, that’s not enough tough stuff for some players, with streamer WolfheartFPS (thanks, GamesRadar) having decided to add some extra rules and turn an honour mode run into something even more honourable. Naturally, their reward was a tragic death while battling the Netherbrain that made Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke declare “that was perfect” like a proud dad.

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There’s been a lot of chatter recently with regards to subscription services and their potential to eventually become the dominant force model-wise in the games industry. However, it looks like the current data on offer doesn’t indicate that a dystopian future like that coming to fruition is anything like a foregone conclusion.

In case you’re out of the loop, Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay kicked off a bit of a discourse by suggesting in an interview with GiBiz earlier this week that players need to get more comfortable with the idea of not owning their games in a traditional fashion in order for subscriptions continue growing at the same rate they have been so far. As you might expect, a lot of people aren’t fans of the idea of those services becoming the only way games are served to players and getting to dictate what kinds of games get made.

However, it looks like the current data and forecasts games industry analysts are seeing doesn’t really support the idea of the gaming space being subjected to total subscription service domination any time soon.

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Baldur's Gate 3 director and Larian Studios founder Swen Vincke has decided to share his views on the whole ‘subscription services eventually becoming the dominant way people access their games’ thing, offering a pretty admirable justification as to why you won’t see BG3 being distributed in that fashion.

In case you’re out of the loop, Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay recently kicked off a bit of a discourse by suggesting in an interview with GiBiz that players need to get more comfortable with the idea of not owning their games in a traditional fashion in order for subscription services to continue to take off in the gaming space. As you might expect, this hasn’t gone down too well with a lot of folks in and around the industry.

One of the most interesting responses to it so far has come from Vincke, who’s posted a lengthy twitter thread explaining his stance on the issue of subscription services versus the traditional method of pitching and releasing a game.

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Everybody celebrate! The Xbox firmware update designed to permanently fix the annoying save issues that’ve been plaguing Baldur's Gate 3 players on the platform is now available to download!

For those who haven’t been following this saga about unfortunate progress loss and lots of tweets from Larian/Microsoft gently saying that the two companies are working on putting an end to the unfortunate progress loss, it boils down to this - saves disappearing following crashes have been a thing on Xbox for a little while now. But hopefully not for any longer, assuming the promised fix that’s now arrived does its job.

Right on time (January 16), Xbox Support confirmed via a tweet: “An Xbox System Update will be rolling out from today to address the Save Game issue on Baldur's Gate 3. You can manually update your console via the Settings or it will roll out to your console within the next week.”

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Hotfix 17 has arrived for Baldur's Gate 3 and the good news is that it contains a fix designed to stop everyone’s favourite member of the shadow wizard money gang - Gale - from deserting you forever if you’re unable to offer him a magical item every time he asks.

Yup, following a hotfix that addressed the item issue which was causing some players to end up with completely softlocked honour mode runs and looked to cause some unintended issues of its own with certain mods, Larian’s put Gale in its crosshairs. To be fair, the posh bastard probably needed taking down a peg.

As documented in the patch notes for Hotfix 17, following its installation: “Gale will no longer permanently leave the party if you don't offer him any magic items while talking to him – unless you're abundantly clear that you don't plan on ever doing so.” Praise Mistra, accidentally being ditched by the magic man is no more!

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It's no secret that 2023 was a big year for games, but the top sellers on Steam for the year include a couple of surprise indie hits that managed to go toe to toe with the big boys.

What do you think the best selling game on Steam was in 2023? You'll only need one guess, but I'm not even going to give you the opportunity to do so, because it's Baldur's Gate 3. Who could have seen that coming! Literally everyone. This comes from industry analyst site Video Game Insights, who recently shared a report on the best selling and top earning games of 2023 on Steam - and yeah, Baldur's Gate 3 was the top earner too, you also won't be surprised to hear.

According to Video Game Insights, Baldur's Gate 3 earned $657 million in revenue last year, almost twice as much as the second place game Hogwarts Legacy, which apparently took in $341 million. As the report notes, though, third place went to Starfield at $235 million, "despite being heavily cannibalised by a day one Xbox Game Pass release and underwhelming launch reception." Other titles featured on the list won't surprise you that much, like Resident Evil 4 and EA Sports FC 24, but in ninth place is one of last year's later entries, and surprise indie hit, Lethal Company, which apparently made $52 million in revenue.

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Some Baldur's Gate 3 players have been reporting some fresh issues involving the game not recognising that they’ve got important quest items in their inventories following the release of hotfix 16. Thankfully, it looks like the solution could be as simple as disabling some mods.

Ironically, one of the main things BG3’s latest update rectified was the fact that some people had managed to completely softlock their honour mode runs by forgetting to bring along key quest items when they were needed most. Following the fix, you can now access certain items at any timer, regardless of where you might have left them.

Sadly, that becomes a rather moot point if the game randomly refuses to realise you’ve got stuff like the Orphic Hammer, Art Cullagh's battered lute, or even some magical items you need to feed Gale in your possession. As outlined in a recent post on the game’s subreddit, this is exactly the kind of thing a bunch of players have encountered since updating their game to install the new patch.

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Good news, Baldur's Gate 3 players on Xbox who’ve spent the past few weeks living in fear of losing a bunch of progress via the annoying save issue that’s been plaguing the game on that platform - a permanent fix is set to arrive soon in the form of an Xbox firmware update.

For those out of the loop, since Xbox BG3’s Game Awards shadow drop, one of the couple of problems (bans caused by steamy footage have been the other) folks have had to deal with while playing through Larian’s RPG on the platform has involved saves disappearing following crashes. Thankfully, there’s now been a concrete date given for the previously promised fix that should permanently rectify the issue.

“Microsoft have identified the cause of the save bug on Xbox, and will be issuing a firmware update to fix it,” Larian has confirmed via a tweet, revealing: “You'll be able to update your console manually on the 16th of January, or wait a week longer for the update to roll out globally.”

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Hotfix 16 for Baldur's Gate 3 has arrived, and it brings a pretty beefy bunch of tweaks and revisions as per usual, one of which will be music to the ears of those who’ve had their honour mode runs fall at the dumbest final hurdle possible.

For those who haven’t been grinding their way through the uber-tough difficulty setting added to Larian’s RPG alongside the epilogue by the humongous patch five or reading about others endeavours to do so on Reddit, some players have managed to softlock themselves right at the game’s climax. How, you ask? Well, by accidentally leaving the hammer they need to bring along in order not to get stuck in the Astral Realm back at camp.

Thankfully for these forgetful BG3 masters, one of this latest hotfix’s headline changes answers their prayers. “You will now be able to access certain quest-related items on the spot,” reads one bullet point of the update’s patch notes, “even if they are currently in the camp chest or in the inventory of a companion who is waiting at camp.”

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Xbox has acknowledged the bans some Baldur's Gate 3 players on the platform have been receiving after recording some of the game’s steamier scenes, encouraging people to turn off the auto-upload feature in order to avoid the issue.

If you’re not familiar with the situation, a number of BG3 players on Xbox have reported receiving bans caused by the act of recording some of the moments of the game that happen to involve a bit of nudity (you know the ones). After Larian recently revealed that it was working with Microsoft to investigate the issue, the former has just issued some guidance for players regarding it.

In a Tweet, Xbox Support stated: “To provide clarity on Baldur's Gate 3 mature content enforcement actions, Xbox account suspensions are not automatic. Each clip is reviewed by a moderator and, if found in violation of our safety and content policies, actioned accordingly.”

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Good news everyone, Baldur's Gate 3 lead and regular armour-wearer Swen Vincke has figured out what he wants to do for the first act of his next project. Unfortunately, he won’t say what exactly this mystical next project actually is.

We all liked Baldur’s Gate 3, so is it something to do with that? Well, unfortunately, the answer is a big fat maybe, with a healthy helping of maybe not sprinkled in.

In a Twitter thread that’s bound to leave you scratching your head, salivating for more info, or both, Larian founder Vincke said a lot about this next project and how it’s going, while also not saying very much at all. “After 4 months of rewriting and rewriting and abandoning ideas and then revisiting them, [I’ve] finally figured out what act [one] on this thing I've been working on needs to be,” he wrote, adding: “Quote me when it's revealed to see how much of today's draft survives. I suspect a lot.”

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Baldur's Gate 3 features an NPC that, as it turns out, is actually a very lovely tribute to a fan's father living with Alzheimer's.

Back in 2020, when Baldur's Gate 3 was still in early access, a user by the name of Solfalia started a thread on developer Larian's forums thanking the developer for releasing the first act of the game even though the game wasn't finished yet. As Solfalia explained in the post, their father got them into gaming from a young age, having played "so many hours of Baldur's Gate 2 together." The two of them had been looking forward to Baldur's Gate 3, but unfortunately, Solfalia's father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, meaning the two of them would be able to play together that Christmas, even if the game wasn't finished yet.

Now, three years on, Solfalia recently shared a new post in the forums thanking Larian for a different reason. The user explained that they did get to play with their father at Christmas, but "much later" they received an email from one of Larian's writers. Referring to the writer as "superwriter" for the sake of privacy, Solfalia explained that, "It turns out my message had resonated with quite a few of you, as many of us have experienced the struggle of a family member with Alzheimers or Dementia, and superwriter was e-mailing me to ask if I would be open to having something included in the game to honour my father…

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It seems that there are some rather bizarre ways you can inadvertently get stuck during an uber-tough honour mode playthrough of Baldur's Gate 3, with one player having reported stumbling across one that’s caused by forgetting to pick up your hammer at the right time.

BG3’s honour mode is deliberately designed to offer a tougher challenge than even the fearsome tactician difficulty setting, with the likes of permadeath and the inability to reload previous saves adding to the genuinely terrifying vibes. That said, having your run end because you’ve had a bit of a memory lapse seems a bit harsh for even the most masochistic of adventurers.

Yet, according to one Reddit user, that’s exactly what can happen if you go about things in a certain way. Towards the end of their run, this poor player detailed in a post on the BG3 subreddit, this poor player went to take on the Netherbrain after accepting Raphael’s deal for the Orphic Hammer, with plans to side with Orpheus.

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Larian Studios has revealed that it’s working with Microsoft to investigate why some Baldur's Gate 3 players on Xbox have seemingly been handed bans for the crime of recording their gameplay during some of the game’s more intimate moments.

If you’re out of the loop, despite the act of getting down and dirty - along with all of the romantic chats that can lead to it - having arguably played a part in why so many people have fallen in love with Larian’s RPG, it seems acts of voyeurism committed on Xbox have been causing issues. According to one Reddit user who experienced the problem, its cause looks to be a result of the nature of how Microsoft’s consoles handle gameplay recordings.

Now, Larian’s Director of Publishing, Michael Douse, has taken to Twitter with a tactfully-worded message for those who’ve been banished to horny jail. “We’ve seen the reports that some players got banned or otherwise faced issues on Xbox having uploaded screenshots/videos of their ‘gameplay content’,” he tweeted.

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One of the developers responsible for putting together Baldur's Gate 3’s excellent companion and romance quests has revealed that they’ve got absolutely no problem with the amusing sex speedruns the game has spawned.

Whether the target is to record an incredibly rapid romance route leading directly to the underpants of a certain Githyanki warrior or to blaze a complex trail in the direction of that encounter with a certain bear, speedrunners have gotten up to a whole bunch of wacky hijinks in BG3 since August. Plenty of people, including all of us here at VG247 (I’m tentatively including Tom in this, he’s probably at least cracked half a smile), have been thoroughly entertained, and it seems the folks who made the game haven’t been immune to that.

Speaking to Inverse, Baudelaire Welch, who served as lead designer for the companion character and romance quests in the game, discussed how they feel about people on the internet competing to shag the characters they had a hand in creating as quickly as possible.

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There's a non-zero chance that there's more of you out there so listen up: it seems that if you record any of the more titillating scenes from Baldur's Gate 3 on Xbox, your account could get banned.

Before we press on, let's all agree to be mature here, ok? I've seen the fanart you've all been retweeting, so no judging the person on Reddit who got their account banned for recording some of the more intimate scenes in Baldur's Gate 3. As shared over on the game's subreddit by user Daddy-Vegas (great name), it appears that recording clips of "some naked camp time fun," as they put it, you can get a temporary ban on your account.

"Xbox, by default, uploads all recorded clips to the server for easy sharing," explains Daddy-Vegas in their Reddit post. "Each clip counted as a different infraction and got my account banned for a year. I'm hoping the appeals process fixes this, but as of now; I can't play any game that requires a network connection (Basically making all the money I put into MW3 over the last 6 months even more worthless)."

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Sick of not having Baldur's Gate 3’s cool cast of characters tell you in no uncertain terms exactly what they think of the amusing predicaments you inevitably end up in during your adventures? Well, a new mod can help.

While it’s all well and good to be able to have a long natter with God’s favourite princess or a wizard with enough dorky rizz to seduce plenty of book-loving Tavs, it’s even better when your party members drop a line or two in reaction to something happening while you’re out on the trail. Even if they’re just calling you stupid for walking straight into an obvious trap or licking a spider.

With a new mod from LightningLarryL, dubbed ‘More Reactive Companions’ those neat little interactions should become a lot more common.

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Unfortunately, the issues that’ve been causing Baldur's Gate 3 players on Xbox to lose their saves are still a thing as of writing, but Larian has provided another handy workaround for those keen to plough on without having their progress disappear.

Since Xbox BG3’s Game Awards shadow drop, these issues have unsurprisingly put a bit of a dampener on fans’ ability to enjoy it on the new platform. After all, you can’t exactly rush all the way through the colossal game in one sitting in order to minimise the chance of having your progress zapped.

While Xbox and Larian have already confirmed that a proper solution to the firmware-based bug is in the works and provided some steps to help players minimise their risk, the latter has recently taken to Twitter to suggest that you make use of its cross-save system as a temporary workaround.

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Surprise, surprise. Rebecca’s Game of the Year is Baldur's Gate 3, and can we blame her? Not at all, especially considering that the majority of folk agreed with her when Baldur’s Gate 3 took home the GOTY award at The Game Awards.

And the rest of us at VG247 can scarcely disagreee with her, despite what our other GOTY videos may lead you to believe. Baldur’s Gate 3 had most of the team in a chokehold upon release — mainly because of the gargantuan pile of guides we had to conjure up — but also because the game is bloody brilliant, as Rebecca explains in the video below.

There’s so much to discover, so much to do, and so many dice to roll that will determine your fate. While admittedly overwhelming for newcomers to the series and those inexperienced with Dungeons & Dragons, the game has managed to win the hearts of people from all walks of life, somewhat introducing a new generation to D&D.

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Amid continuing issues that’ve been causing Baldur's Gate 3 players on Xbox to lose their saves, Xbox Support has provided some steps you can take in order to avoid the issue until a proper fix arrives.

As Larian acknowledged in a tweet earlier this week, the issue has been seeing some saves just flat out disappear following a crash, losing folks boatloads of the progress they’ve made since Xbox BG3’s Game Awards shadow drop. As confirmed by the studio’s Director of Publishing Michael Dowse, a full fix for the issue is in the works, but here’s how to minimise your risk in the meantime.

“In order to avoid this issue players should save their game and then return to the Xbox dashboard and select “Quit Game” or “Save to Quick Resume” from the game menu (Home, Game, Select, and then choose "Save to Quick Resume" or "Quit") when they finish playing,” Xbox Support advised in a tweet.

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Warning: Spoilers for Starfield lie ahead.

I’m playing Starfield. My wife’s leaving me.

Or, at least it feels like she should be. None of the toilet paper I’m hoarding has been thrown at me. None of my other shitty belongings have been angrily flushed out of an airlock. No one’s crying. All she’s doing is glaring at me through narrowed eyes, a look of distaste carved across her perfectly-proportioned face.

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Another year of the video games, another three hour long event just before Christmas that tells us all about the video games, The Game Awards 2023 has officially finished washing over us all.

If you couldn’t tune in live or are in the mood for a sobering recap of all the show’s biggest announcements, from Marvel's Blade to Hideo Kojima’s OD, here it is, in no particular order. Oh, and also make sure to check out our roundup of the winners crowned during the actual, you know, awards part of the show.

Yep, a game about vampires is being developed by Arkane. Here’s hoping it goes well, given, well, Redfall. An officially licensed tie-in centred on Marvel's Blade, the game got a swanky reveal trailer at this year’s Game Awards, which you can check out above.

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By gum, it's taken a while, Larian Studios' turn-based RPG Baldur's Gate 3, is now available on Xbox Series X|S.

The game did not come to Xbox platforms at launch, due to technical issues getting split-screen co-op to work on Series S.

But now – out of nowhere! – Baldur's Gate 3 has shadow-dropped on Xbox Series.

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Larian Studios has released some interesting stats for Baldur's Gate 3, all of which are impressive, and a few are chuckle-worthy.

According to the studio, since the game was released in August, over 1.3 million of you have completed the game - a figure almost equal to the 1.24 million that transformed into a wheel of cheese.

Other stats include 8196 years spent in the character creator, Gale is the most played Origin character while 94% of your created a custom character. More of you chose to play a paladin than any other character class, the barbarian was the most popular subclass, and most of you chose to play as an elf.

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Warning: Spoilers for Baldur's Gate 3 may lie ahead.

A Baldur's Gate 3 mod that gender-swapped Dame Aylin has been taken down from Nexus Mods after its creator was ruled to have violated the site’s community rules.

The mod in question, dubbed ‘Ser Aylin’, was originally uploaded to the platform on December 3, with its takedown coming not long after this point. According to a post on the Baldur’s Gate 3 subreddit that attempted to warn people not to support the mod, it was part of a group of works designed to “remove every single queer character and every single reference to any queer identity from the entire game”.

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Among the massive haul of updates and additions that came with Baldur's Gate 3’s latest fifth patch was the mercilessly tough Honour Mode difficulty setting, and, unsurprisingly, a speedrunner has already managed to beat it in less than a hour.

For those who aren’t keen on subjecting themselves to something tougher than Tactician, the premise of Honour Mode involves ensuring that you live in a perennial brown trousers-verse by adding the likes of permadeath and the inability to reload previous saves to the equation. It also does some other stuff that adds to the challenge, but quite frankly the quest to earn the coveted Golden D20 already looks hard enough without even mentioning that.

However, as spotted by TheGamer, for speedrunner Chronos - the current holder of BG3’s all acts any% run record - all of that was just window-dressing for a casual stroll through the game in a leisurely 38 minutes and eight seconds. The run, which you can watch in full here, features a lot of the famous strategies devised by the BG3 running community since the game came out, including some messing around with Shadowheart and a bouncy disembarking of The Nautiloid.

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