A wholly subscription-driven games industry would be "savage", says Larian CEO
Larian CEO Swen Vincke has been reading Ubisoft director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay's thoughts from yesterday about how players need to "get comfortable" with renting their games as a package, rather than "having and owning" an individual copy. His broad takeaway is: that ain't it, chief.11 Apr 2024After winning every major Game of the Year award in 2023, Baldur's Gate 3 is now cleaning up in 2024 tooPC Gamer ︎10 Apr 2024Hotfix #25 Now Live!Steam ︎08 Apr 2024Baldur’s Gate 3 studio will likely bring their next game to early access again, but admit it’s not for every devRPS ︎07 Apr 2024Whatever Baldur's Gate 3 dev Larian ends up doing next, it will probably be in early access tooVG247 ︎06 Apr 2024Larian publishing director on mass layoffs: 'None of these companies are at risk of going bankrupt. They were just at risk of pissing off the shareholders'PC Gamer ︎04 Apr 2024Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix should stop an intellect devourer cheekily messing up your quick breaksVG247 ︎04 Apr 2024Hotfix #24 Now Live!Steam ︎27 Mar 2024Lae'zel's voice actor says that 'Baldur's Gate 3 is definitely as good—if not miles better—than any film or TV show I've done'PC Gamer ︎27 Mar 2024Bad news, Baldur's Gate 3 fraudsters, the latest hotfix stops you hoodwinking merchants using container tricksVG247 ︎27 Mar 2024Hotfix #23 Now Live!Steam ︎27 Mar 2024Larian Studios' Swen Vincke does see potential uses for AI, but: 'We're hiring writers, not having ChatGPT write their dialogues'PC Gamer ︎26 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3 devs planned for you killing everyone, didn't expect you to "jump through the entire thing"VG247 ︎25 Mar 2024Larian's saying goodbye to Baldur's Gate 3 by giving us some 'really evil' endingsPC Gamer ︎25 Mar 2024Larian CEO has been 'Reading the Reddit threads' and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn't the reason Baldur's Gate 3 is finishedPC Gamer ︎25 Mar 2024Larian's saying goodbye to Baldur's Gate 3 by giving us some 'really evil' endingsPC Gamer ︎25 Mar 2024Larian CEO has been 'Reading the Reddit threads' and wants us to remove our tinfoil hats, says Wizards of the Coast isn't the reason Baldur's Gate 3 is finishedPC Gamer ︎24 Mar 2024Larian originally wanted Baldur's Gate 3 to have multiple narrators, also Astarion was a tieflingPC Gamer ︎22 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3 mod tools won't be as extensive as Divinity's: 'We're not a tools company,' says Swen VinckePC Gamer ︎22 Mar 2024Larian don't know what their next game is yet, but it won't be Baldur's Gate 4, or Baldur's Gate 3 DLCRPS ︎22 Mar 2024Yes, Stardew Valley mayonnaise drinking speedruns are now a thing, and already sub 20 minutesVG247 ︎22 Mar 2024Larian "don't know" what their next game is yet, but it won't be Baldur's Gate 4, or Baldur's Gate 3 DLCRPS ︎22 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3's director was once on board with doing a sequel, but now he's aiming for "a very big RPG that will rule them all"VG247 ︎21 Mar 2024Larian is finished with Baldur's Gate: 'We're going to move away from D&D and we're going to start making a new thing'PC Gamer ︎21 Mar 2024Larian will not be making Baldur's Gate 4, or any Baldur's Gate 3 expansionsVG247 ︎21 Mar 2024Larian considered having multiple narrators in Baldur's Gate 3 - including Matt MercerVG247 ︎21 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3 wins game of the year at the Game Developers Choice awardsVG247 ︎20 Mar 2024Larian CEO Swen Vincke extols the 'incredible achievement' of Baldur's Gate 3 influence Ultima 7, but confesses he hasn't played since the '90s 'because I don't want to spoil the memory'PC Gamer ︎19 Mar 2024Astarion's actor was deployed to replace the missing mocap of around 150 lines of Baldur's Gate 3 dialogue: 'I just had this dog's breakfast'PC Gamer ︎18 Mar 2024Hotfix #22 Now Live!Steam ︎18 Mar 2024Good news, Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix stops Minthara from suddenly dumping your not so evil bottomVG247 ︎15 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3 wins again: It was the most-played game on Steam Deck over the past 12 monthsPC Gamer ︎08 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3's latest hotfix is causing some controversial romance rejections - sadly it's Minthara againVG247 ︎07 Mar 2024Hotfix #21 Now Live!Steam ︎06 Mar 2024'I've been disappointed so many times': Karlach from Baldur's Gate 3 talks scrapping the lady stereotypes of RPG romances, says Larian just 'let me do what I wanted to do'PC Gamer ︎05 Mar 2024Baldur's Gate 3 is so meaty, our Xbox cousins will need to play the Digital Deluxe on 4 disks wrapped in 'little slips' and stuffed into a single-disk boxPC Gamer ︎