Larian Studios’ Publishing Director Michael Douse shared on the social network X some impressive achievements of Baldur’s Gate 3. He mentioned that in 2024, several metrics of the game surpassed those in its release year.

The prices for standard editions of modern games are too low, according to Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios. In his opinion, the price tags fail to keep up with the rising costs of game production.

The company Hasbro reported its second quarter of 2024 (April-June). Among other things, it announced that it continues to receive good revenue from licensing the MONOPOLY and Baldur’s Gate franchises.

Last week, the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 announced the launch of a studio in Warsaw that will assist other offices with the development of two ambitious RPGs. During an investor presentation, CD PROJEKT’s COO Piotr Karwowski said there was no problem with this.

At the Digital Dragons conference, Larian Studios head Swen Vincke acknowledged that while creating Baldur’s Gate 3, the studio’s staff sometimes had to work overtime. However, the crunch was significantly less compared to the work on previous games.

Larian Studios is expanding. It has officially announced the opening of a Polish branch.

Journalist Stephen Totilo from Game File spoke with Michael Douse, head of the publishing department at Larian Studios, about the current state of the gaming industry. We chose the main thing from the interview.

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.

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.

Hasbro has decided to sell the IP rights to Dungeons & Dragons due to financial problems, the Chinese edition of Speed Daily reports, citing its sources. One of the potential buyers is Tencent.

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.

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.