Baldur’s Gate

The Most Comfortable Inns, Bars And Taverns In Video Games

Earlier this month we visited taverns and bars that are noisy and dangerous Now it is time to look for their exact opposite: The coziest, most calm, most peaceful places to hang out. Places that focus more on the relaxed atmosphere, the music, and advancing the game’s story, rather than getting our characters in trouble.…

The Best-Looking Isometric Games

Games with isometric graphics—a slightly rotated view with a top-down perspective—were a big deal several years ago. Static, isometric maps, mostly used in strategy and role-playing games, allowed the developers to create spectacular, detailed visuals, and most of them have aged really well. With Kickstarter-funded games like Shadowrun Returns or Project Eternity using the same…

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The Noisiest, Dirtiest Bars and Taverns in Video Games

Bars, clubs and noisy taverns are always crucial locations in a story-driven game. They are save points, places where we can sell useless stuff from our inventory, gather information, meet a key character, or just simply get into trouble. We have selected bars and inns that look the grittiest. Bars that are perhaps most memorable…

The Knights of New Vegas

Feargus Urquhart was freaking out. He and his team at Obsidian Entertainment were about to take one of the biggest steps in the company’s history—launching a Kickstarter for a brand new video game—but something was wrong. The button to start up their crowdfunding page had turned grey. Nobody could click it. And the Kickstarter was…

Baldur’s Gate 3 Was Almost Made Four Years Ago

Here’s a heartbreaker: Obsidian Entertainment was *this* close to starting work on Baldur’s Gate 3. They spent over a year negotiating the deal. And then the whole thing fell apart. Speaking to me as part of an extensive interview—which will be part of a larger feature on Obsidian that will be up on Kotaku Monday—Obsidian…

One of the Greatest Role-Playing Games of All-Time is Now on iPad

For the past week PC gamers have been enjoying the enhanced edition of Baldur’s Gate, a fourteen-year-old BioWare role-playing game that many consider to be the greatest Dungeons & Dragons video game ever made. Now it’s iPad owners’ turn to rediscover the magic. If you’re unclear on what Baldur’s Gate is, you should read Jason’s…

My 13-Year-Old Baldur’s Gate Review, Enhanced Edition

When PC role-playing classic Baldur’s Gate was released in 1998, I was writing for a small gaming news site called Videogamers.com. BioWare’s masterpiece was my first official PC game review. While Videogamers.com is long gone, the magical Internet Wayback Machine houses an archived version of the review, at least until I figure out a way…

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition: Everything You Should Know

On November 30, 1998, a little-known company called BioWare released a strangely-titled game named Baldur’s Gate for personal computers. It was critically and commercially acclaimed, an excellent RPG with a gigantic world, interesting characters, and a ton of little details to discover and enjoy. Fourteen years later, Baldur’s Gate is back. Today marks the release…

Here’s A Trailer For The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate

Happy Thanksgiving! Take a trailer for the upcoming remake of one of the greatest RPGs ever made. After some big delays, Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition should be out next Wednesday for PC (and somewhere around then for iPad as well). For more on the new enhancements coming in this edition of the iconic game, check…

The Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition has been delayed, and will be arriving on November 30 instead of next week.

An Iconic Baldur’s Gate II Scene, Re-Created In Glorious 3D

Remember that awesome scene near the beginning of Baldur’s Gate II, when you’re escaping that first (annoying) dungeon and Irenicus comes out, kidnaps one of your companions, and wreaks havoc everywhere? Here it is in 3D, created in the Dragon Age map editor by YouTuber Dahlia Lynn. Cool stuff! (via David Gaider)

A Tasty Sampling Of The New Baldur’s Gate Music

Mmmm, tastes like music clips. When Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition was first announced, one of the coolest things about it was the fact that it’ll feature an all new adventure, “The Black Pits.” And one of the coolest things about that was that it meant we’d be getting new music for the iconic game, music…

The Galvanizing Glory Of The Baldur’s Gate Theme Music

Just listen to it. Listen to that puppy. That groove in five, that sinister melody. The way it pushes you, onward. Onward to the character creation screen! In just a couple short months, we’ll get to play the enhanced edition of Baldur’s Gate. That’s extra good news for me, because I played more Baldur’s Gate…

Baldur’s Gate Is Back. New Characters, Dungeon Coming September 18

If you’ve been getting the urge to replay Baldur’s Gate, you might want to wait til this fall. The classic role-playing game will see new life on September 18, when developer Beamdog releases Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, an enhanced remake with new characters and a new adventure that the company says will take you six…

New Character, Story DLC Planned For Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition

The upcoming rerelease of Baldur’s Gate will get its own paid DLC. Director Trent Oster tweeted the news last night, specifying that the team will sell new quests and NPCs as part of future content for the Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, which will be released on PC, Mac, and iPad later this summer. “DLC=Downloadable Content,…

From Baldur’s Gate to Call of Duty, Those Ex-Mass Effect Composers Are Doing Just Fine

While many composers worked on the Mass Effect soundtracks over the years, Sam Hulick and Jack Wall are the names most commonly associated with the game. Wall composed that emotional menu music that was hidden in Mass Effect 3, while Hulick composed the music that plays while navigating the galaxy map. Both composers have gone…

I’ve Never Seen a Magic System in a Video Game Without Glaring Flaws

In today’s magically delicious episode of Speak Up on Kotaku, commenter Chris P. Bacon claims that while not one video game has portrayed magic perfectly, several have come close. He should know. He is a wizard. I’ve always been a fan of magic users in games. A magician who always has a bag of tricks…

They Hope Baldur’s Gate Will Revive The Classic RPG

Classic Western role-playing games are hard to find these days. The most successful ones are chimeras, like Mass Effect 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, games that graft a role-playing game’s quests and statistics onto shooting or action-based mechanics. Even party-based RPG series like Dragon Age can’t seem to emulate that thrilling classic notion…

Baldur’s Gate iPad Will Support Multiplayer, Cost Less Than $10

The enhanced iPad version of classic role-playing game Baldur’s Gate, slated for release this summer, won’t cost you more than $10. Also, it will support multiplayer. An enhanced edition of Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows of Amn is in the works for iPad later this year as well. This is all according to Cameron Tofer, COO…