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Baldur's Gate 3 defies the laws of physics by being a single-player RPG with more daily users in 2024 than its release year

by Harvey Randall

Baldur's Gate 3, pound for pound, has had more daily users in 2024 than in 2023, which feels a little bit like setting a coin spinning, going on holiday for a week, and then coming back only to find it still whirring away on your table... Read more.

The odds of Baldur's Gate 3 being owned by The Pope just got better, as Larian's head of publishing shouts out mods for helping it outdo numbers from last year

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We all know Baldur's Gate 3's mods have proven pretty popular since official support for them was added by Larian with Patch 7. The developer's gone out of its way to tell us just that, even letting us know just who we need to thank for contributing. Read more

You might want to start uninstalling some mods, Baldur's Gate 3 console players, as an incoming hotfix will make those of you with 100+ mods unable to play your save

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Calling all Baldur's Gate 3 mod lovers on console, you should probably start uninstalling them, as an incoming hotfix will render your saves unplayable. Read more

Astarion has breached the Vatican—Baldur's Gate 3 has sold 2 copies in Vatican City, says Larian's director of publishing

by Harvey Randall

The Vatican now has exactly two Baldur's Gate 3 copies being played inside its hallowed walls, according to Larian's director of publishing, who took to X today to share his findings. This marks a second notable instance of gaming behaviour by the Catholic Church this year, as in July, it ordained its first gamer saint... Read more.

I desperately hope Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Baldur's Gate 3 and Disco Elysium inspire more RPG devs to reject the traditional drip, drip, drip of DLC and expansions

by Fraser Brown

Videogames are the weirdest of mediums. For lots of reasons, really, but this weekend it's DLC and expansions that I've got in my sights. An opinion piece about DLC, how novel! I know, I know, but lately there have been a few high profile games refusing to go down the DLC and expansion route, and this novelty really reinforces how strange it is that games drawing out their stories for a year or longer has become the expected, done thing... Read more.

Baldur's Gate 3 is back on sale, but you've got to be speedy

by editor@pcgamesn.com

Ask around, and you won't find too many folks that take issue with Baldur's Gate 3's massive haul of Game of the Year awards. It's one of the greatest RPGs ever made, and despite being out for well over a year now, it is still consistently played by tens of thousands of Steam users every single day. The downside to that prestige and popularity is that it does make discounts something of a rarity. However, if you're yet to dive into Larian's masterpiece, now's a great time - Baldur's Gate 3 has been dropped back down to its lowest ever Steam price, but only for a few days. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Best Baldur's Gate 3 builds The 27 best Baldur's Gate 3 mods Huge Baldur's Gate 3 mod makes its world look better than ever

Craving more Larian goodness after Baldur's Gate 3? Well, it looks like Divinity: Original Sin 2 might be on its way to PS5 and Xbox Series X/S

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Baldur's Gate 3 might soon have some company in terms of cool Larian-developed RPGs with a dedicated versions for the big two current-gen consoles - the PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. That's because Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition has just gotten fresh ratings for both of those video game playing boxes. Read more

New Baldur's Gate 3 class mod gives you an apprentice, lackey, or squire sidekick that shares your turn, because why not have a mini-me to make Shart jealous

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There've been a lot of cool custom class mods released for Baldur's Gate 3 since it came out, no matter whether you want something pretty standard that just doesn't happen to be in the base game, or something that comes from the utterly bizarre cauldron of your own DnD exploits. One of the latest to arrive is defintely on the weirder side - allowing you to play as a duo by bringing along an understudy who shares your turn. Read more

Baldur's Gate 3's offscreen secrets include an 'asylum' for plot-critical NPCs and a 'magical teleporting death journal' to help particularly murderous players find Act 2

by Ted Litchfield

Baldur's Gate 3 YouTuber SlimX has released a 25-minute video about all the offscreen tricks and shortcuts Larian used to make Baldur's Gate 3's first act work. Among them are a holding pen for plot-critical NPCs to hang out in, and a "magical teleporting death journal" to point you in the direction of Act 2 should you kill all the NPCs who would otherwise direct you there... Read more.

Baldur's Gate 3 players have downloaded 50 million mods since official support was added, and Larian is 'glad [it] could facilitate' 10,000 players renaming Withers to Bone Daddy

by Fraser Brown

While Baldur's Gate 3 modders have been tinkering away since early access, it was only with September's Patch 7 that we got official mod support, with Larian sharing its modding toolkit and supporting it with an in-game mod manager. Since then, 50 million mods have been downloaded... Read more.

Baldur's Gate 3 players have now downloaded "more than 50 million" mods since patch 7, and you've gotta thank the weirdos who call undead camp bloke daddy

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You know how Baldur's Gate 3's mods were proving pretty popular since Patch 7 brought them to everyone? Well, that's not slowed down, as Larian's just revealed that 50 million have now been downloaded by players across all platforms since that point. Read more

Longdue creative director says its upcoming game will be on the "closer to Disco" end of a great Disco Elysium to Baldur's Gate 3 cRPG spectrum

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We're gradually learning more and more about the bunch of studios that revealed themselves to be developing not quite Disco Elysium successors earlier this month, with the creative director behind Longdue having now offered a bit more info on how it plans to approach its upcoming game. Read more

One of Baldur's Gate 3's cut NPCs is an Oscar-winning liar who probably would've rinsed my bleeding heart out of 50 gold, if I'm being honest

by Harvey Randall

Baldur's Gate 3 has a wealth of cut conversation and content that, a year later, is still getting dredged up by its data mining fans. This latest one comes from YouTuber SlimX, who managed to find an all-time swindler meant to mess with you in Act 1—you can watch her legendary Charisma (Deception) check below... Read more.

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

by Harvey Randall

Baldur's Gate 3 has, in spirit, carried on the tradition of mainstream isometric RPGs. Sure, there've been the Pillars of Eternity games—solid CRPGS in their own right—but even Obsidian's doing a pseudo-Skyrim, now, no matter how much it's saying otherwise. Meanwhile, Dragon Age has been getting more and more action RPG with each entry. The top-down flame has been held aloft by Larian & Co alone... Read more.