Brian Fargo says he is aware of which studio is engaged on Baldur’s Gate 3. In a tweet posted yesterday, Fargo, who based Baldur’s Gate’s unique writer, Interplay, closely implied {that a} third main Baldur’s Gate launch is in improvement.
That tweet was posted in a resetera thread final evening that claims that Divinity: Original Sin developer Larian Studios has acquired the license to the collection and is at present engaged on Baldur’s Gate 3. Fargo’s tweet by itself doesn’t level to Larian, however the resetera put up hyperlinks to a different thread claiming that Larian now personal the collection’ license.
A (at present unsubstantiated) hearsay posted to RPG Codex final month states that the unique poster’s new colleague is “a former Larian employee.” That put up goes on to say that “Swen [Vincke, founder and CEO of Larian Studios] acquired the Baldur’s Gate license.” The put up supplied no extra details about when or even when Larian plans to make use of the license – not to mention what for – however reiterates that the corporate is at present in possession of the IP.
The final game to make use of the Baldur’s Gate IP was a standalone cell game. That game was a port of Baldur’s Gate expansion Siege of Dragonspear, which itself was developed by Beamdog and launched in 2016. The studio launched the cell model in March this yr. That implies that the IP was within the fingers of one other studio in the beginning of this yr, however does depart a six month interval during which it may simply have modified fingers. Beamdog, nevertheless, has beforehand said that it’s eager to develop Baldur’s Gate 3.
I occur to know who’s engaged on BG3 ?
— Brian Fargo (@BrianFargo) October 4, 2018
It’s value mentioning that Fargo is the founder and CEO of developer inXile Entertainment. The studio is at present engaged on Wasteland Three having simply launched The Bard’s Tale 4, however tends to have two games in numerous levels of improvement at anybody time. Given their give attention to single-player RPGs, it’s attainable that Fargo may have been teasing his personal studio’s involvement in Baldur’s Gate 3.
We’ve reached out to all three studios for remark. A supply from Larian says that they’re engaged on a Divinity mission (prompting us to surprise about the potential of Divinity: Original Sin 3), and never on BG3. We’re but to listen to again from inXile and Beamdog, however we’ll replace after we know extra.
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