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Baldur’s Gate 3 News
2025
April 25
⚫︎ Baldur's Gate 3 publishing director Michael Douse has publicly praised Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, encouraging players to support the newly released RPG and its development team. The game has received a positive response from both fans and critics.
April 23
⚫︎ Baldur’s Gate 3’s final major update, Patch 8, launched last week, bringing cross-platform play, 12 new subclasses, and a host of additional tweaks and fixes. The update has sparked renewed interest in the game, with concurrent player counts surpassing 169,000 on Steam.
April 16
⚫︎ Larian Studios released Patch 8 for Baldur’s Gate 3 today, bringing a wave of new content that has the potential to reignite excitement for the game well over a year after its launch. Among the highlights are several new subclasses and the introduction of a powerful new cantrip: Booming Blade.
Available to spellcasting classes from Level 1, Booming Blade enhances a melee weapon attack with a debuff that deals 1d8 Thunder damage if the target moves. The spell scales with character level, later adding up to 2d8 extra Thunder damage to the initial hit—making it a strong option for melee-focused spellcasters.
April 15
⚫︎ Larian Studios has released Patch 8 for Baldur’s Gate 3, officially marking the game’s final content update. The patch introduces crossplay across PC, Mac, PlayStation, and Xbox, a photo mode, a dozen new subclasses, and long-awaited split-screen multiplayer support for Xbox Series S.
To commemorate the milestone, Larian published a farewell blog post accompanied by a final animated short. The video features the game’s cast embarking on one last adventure, complete with a fourth wall-breaking cameo by Larian CEO Swen Vincke, suited up in his iconic armor.
March 21
⚫︎ The final major update for Baldur’s Gate 3 is set to launch on April 15 for Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 5, and PC. Known as Patch 8, the update has been in public testing since late last year and introduces several new features.
These include cross-play support, a photo mode, split-screen co-op for Xbox Series S, and new subclasses for all 12 character classes. Developer Larian Studios has confirmed this will be the game’s last major update as it moves on to new projects.
March 21
⚫︎ Hasbro's SVP of digital games Dan Ayoub further elaborates on the effect of Baldur's Gate 3 on how [they] think about big-budget D&D projects, saying it raised the bar in a really, really big way
, but still want to create new entry points to the franchise.
March 19
⚫︎ Hasbro SVP of digital games Dan Ayoub spoke up about Baldur's Gate 3's future in an interview with IGN at the GDC 2025 event, stating that, ...in pretty short order, we're going to have some stuff to talk about around that
, elaborating that the company got a lot of plans
for the game and he didn't want to over-tease
it.
March 7
⚫︎ Fan favorite BG3 character Astarion was found randomly popping up in official D&D lore as a quoted entry for the Vampire Spawn monster in the recently released 2025 Monster Manual.
March 3
⚫︎ Redditor Daetok_Lochannis shared in a Reddit post that the three main antagonists of Baldur's Gate 3, Ketheric Throm, Enver Gortash, and Orrin the Red, are all suspiciously congruent with the three most hated kinds of D&D players.
February 12
⚫︎ Samantha Béart, the voice of Karlach, has come out on Twitter to pre-emptively deny any future involvement with any CRPG titles serving as spiritual successors to Disco Elysium if they don't involve the original game's creator, writing miss me with that casting call
.
February 7
⚫︎ After months of hype, Larian Studios is stress testing BG3's upcoming Patch 8 ahead of its release. As the studio's last hurrah before completely leaving the game to develop their next project, Patch 8 will be massive, with 12 new subclasses, plenty of bug fixes, and quality-of-life improvements.
January 28
⚫︎ Larian Studios has confirmed that split-screen co-op is finally coming to Baldur’s Gate 3 on Xbox Series S with its eighth major update!
January 15
⚫︎ Larian Studios commemorates the 100 million mod downloads milestone for Baldur’s Gate 3 by highlighting the “Withers Big Naturals” mod in its curated list of BG3 mods.
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2024
July 5
⚫︎ Wizards of the Coast lead rule designer Jeremy Crawford recently discussed how Baldur’s Gate 3 has influenced the design approach for the upcoming 2024 edition of Dungeons & Dragons. He specifically highlighted the game’s handling of spells like Cloud of Daggers and Produce Flame as examples of innovations that could shape future rules for the tabletop RPG.
⚫︎ Baldur's Gate 3's upcoming Patch 8 offers 12 new subclasses across all of the game's available classes alongside crossplay functionality and a brand-new photo mode.
March 28
⚫︎ In an interview with IGN, Baldur’s Gate 3 director Swen Vincke shared his perspective on AI in game development, calling it a useful tool but emphasizing its limitations. Vincke stated he's open to using AI where it can assist but asserted, “AI could never replace the creative side of things, and I can put my money where my mouth is.”
March 23
⚫︎ At this year’s GDC panel, Larian Studios CEO Swen Vincke announced that the studio will be stepping away from the Dungeons & Dragons IP and shifting focus to new projects after Baldur’s Gate 3. Vincke assured fans that Baldur’s Gate 3 will continue to receive updates and fixes before the team fully transitions to their next venture.
2023
August 16
⚫︎ Following a highly successful PC launch, Baldur’s Gate 3 tops the PSN pre-order charts as anticipation builds for its upcoming PS5 release. With critical acclaim pouring in, Baldur’s Gate 3 is shaping up to be one of 2024’s standout titles as the fourth quarter approaches.
August 3
⚫︎ Baldur’s Gate 3 is released for the PC through Steam and GOG to much anticipation. This full version of the game includes all three of the game’s acts, an expanded storyline, all available origin characters, balance tweaks and changes, and improved cinematic performance. The game then became one of Steam’s most-played and top-selling games of all time shortly after release.
2020
October 6
⚫︎ One year after its announcement, Baldur's Gate 3 has officially launched in early access on Steam, GOG, and Google Stadia. The release follows multiple delays, including a previous target date of September 30, and an earlier mid-2020 projection from developer Larian Studios.
This early-access build of the game only included the game’s first act, a customizable player character, and five playable origin characters, including Astartion, Gale, Lae’zel, Shadowheart, and Wyll.
2019
June 6
⚫︎ Larian Studios, the team behind Divinity: Original Sin, unveiled their latest project, Baldur’s Gate 3, at Google’s first Stadia Connect event. This new entry continues BioWare’s classic Baldur’s Gate series, which began in 1998 with the original game and was followed by Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn in 2000.
