{"id":94686,"date":"2019-06-06T22:01:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/344236"},"modified":"2019-06-06T22:01:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T22:01:00","slug":"divinity-original-sin-developer-larian-studios-is-behind-baldurs-gate-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/06\/divinity-original-sin-developer-larian-studios-is-behind-baldurs-gate-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Divinity: Original Sin developer Larian Studios is behind Baldur&#8217;s Gate 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Larian Studios, the developer behind the <em>Divinity: Original Sin<\/em> games, is working on the next game in Wizards of the Coast\u2019s <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p>The studio had lightly implied as much on Twitter in the days leading up to today\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k-BbW6zAjL0\">Google Stadia stream<\/a>, and both <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/em> and its development team were among the reveals during today\u2019s Stadia event.<\/p>\n<p>During the stream, Larian CEO Swen Vincke shared that he had previously tried to pitch Wizards of the Coast on putting them at the helm of a new <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate<\/em> game years ago, but the company originally turned them down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we were released <em>Divinity: Original Sin 1<\/em>, I tried approaching Wizards of the Coast, trying to tell them that we should be the ones making <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/em>,\u201d said Vinke. \u201cThey didn\u2019t necessarily believe me back then. But then we started making <em>Divinity: Original Sin 2<\/em> and then at some point they just reached out to me and said \u2018well you\u2019re the guy that wanted to make <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3<\/em>. Do you still want to make <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate 3?<\/em>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that got the conversation rolling. And before you knew it, we were constructing story,\u201d said Vincke.<\/p>\n<p>The game is set to launch for both Google Stadia and PC, and comes nearly 20 years after BioWare released its predecessor <em>Baldur\u2019s Gate 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larian Studios, the developer behind the Divinity: Original Sin games, is working on the next game in Wizards of the Coast\u2019s Baldur\u2019s Gate series. The studio had lightly implied as much on Twitter in the days leading up to today\u2019s Google Stadia stream, and both Baldur\u2019s Gate 3 and its development team were among the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}