The head of Larian Studios, Sven Vincke, criticized the heads of gaming companies for mass layoffs at the Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony. He called the constant pursuit of profit the root of the problem and called for breaking the vicious circle.

Michael Douse, director of publishing at Larian Studios, inadvertently revealed the size of Baldur’s Gate 3 audience. He mentioned the number during a discussion about mod support.

Hasbro, the company that owns the rights to Dungeons & Dragons, has published a financial report for 2023. She reported that her video game revenue has grown well thanks to the success of Baldur’s Gate 3 and MONOPOLY GO!.

Baldur’s Gate 3 managed to take a new achievement. The number of reviews of the game on Steam has exceeded half a million, which is more than Red Dead Redemption 2 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.

As part of the “Winter Sale” on Steam, which started on December 21, Larian Studios has put a small 10% discount on Baldur’s Gate 3. The effect was not long in coming.

On November 30, the Larian Studios blog on Steam reported that 1.3 million people have played the game since its release on August 3. This allows you to give an approximate estimate of the number of copies of the game sold.

Neil Newbon is an actor who played Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3 and received the award for Best Supporting Actor at the Golden Joystick Awards 2023. In his acceptance speech, he admitted that the gaming industry had saved his career.

Analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana also said that in September, Steam users from the United States played Counter-Strike 2, Baldur’s Gate 3 and Starfield the most actively.

The analytical company Newzoo shared statistics on Baldur’s Gate 3 for August. We have chosen the main thing.

The release of Baldur’s Gate 3 became extremely successful: only on Steam the peak online game exceeded 875 thousand people. It is not known for sure how many people bought the game in total, but Larian Studios and Wizards of the Coast are very pleased with the results of the project.

The novelty from Larian Studios has become an event on Twitch. The team of the streaming platform reported that Twitch users spent 41 million hours watching broadcasts on Baldur’s Gate 3.

The Belgian Embassy in China suddenly revealed the sales of Baldur’s Gate 3. According to him, as of August 16, the Belgian company Larian Studios has sold 5.2 million copies of the game on Steam.

Larian Studios has corrected the titles of Baldur’s Gate 3. She added localizers from the Altagram Group outsourcing studio, who complained a week ago that only team leaders got into the credits.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has seriously captivated gamers from the United States, according to analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. According to him, at the end of last week, Americans spent an average of over 300 minutes a day in the game.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has another achievement. The novelty of Larian Studios shared with Super Mario Odyssey the first place in the list of games with the highest rating on OpenCritic.

The credits of Baldur’s Gate 3 did not include ordinary localizers from Altagram Group, an outsourcing studio that worked on translating subtitles for the game into several languages. Only the team leaders got there.

Baldur’s Gate 3 has become one of the best games released in 2023, according to Metacritic users. Now, with a rating of 9.3 points out of 10, it ranks second in the list of the most highly appreciated novelties by gamers.

The role-playing novelty from Larian Studios topped the Steam top of the highest-grossing games over the past week (more precisely, for the period from the first to the eighth of August). This time — taking into account the fritupley titles.

After three years of early access, Baldur’s Gate 3 was officially released on PC on August 3. The game immediately became a hit. Six hours after the release, 472,136 Steam users were playing the RPG from Larian Studios at the same time.