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You’ll Be Able To Play Baldur’s Gate On Your iPad This Summer
PC role-playing game Baldur’s Gate will soon be living in a post-PC world. The beloved classic will be out for iPad this summer, developer Overhaul Games said today. It will also feature new content (!) and a new party member (!!!). Overhaul writes in a press release: Running on an upgraded and improved version of…
By Jason Schreier Published March 22, 2012 -
Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Announced, Server Explodes [Update]
The mysterious Baldur’s Gate countdown has ended with the bang of servers exploding, but not before an email arrived announcing something called Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition for release this summer. The servers at BaldursGate.comare down, but I think I’ve got a pretty good idea of what the upcoming release entails. Officially licensed by Wizards of…
By Mike Fahey Published March 15, 2012 -
Baldur’s Gate Teaser Website Conjures a Countdown
It will be less than 24 hours before we hear more about the mysterious Baldur’s Gate project from developer / digital distribution platform Beamdog. You can stare the timer down to eerie music here at the teaser website
By Pierre Bienaimé Published March 14, 2012 -
This Baldur’s Gate Teaser Sure Takes Its Time To Tell Us Not Much [Update]
Following up on last night’s Baldur’s Gate website tease, today a YouTube user named Beamdogger has uploaded a teaser trailer for…something, featuring voice clips from both Baldur’s Gate and Baldur’s Gate II and the world’s longest logo reveal. Update: Looks like it’s fake. Beamdogger refers to the digital distribution platform / independent studio Beamdog, run…
By Mike Fahey Published February 29, 2012 -
Baldur’s Gate Website Lurches to Life, Is a New Game Rising?
It’s been eleven years since PC role-playing gamers claimed the throne of Bhaal, Lord of Murder, bringing BioWare’s epic Baldur’s Gate series to a satisfying close, but has the entire tale been told? New developments at the game’s website suggest there’s still life in the old death god yet. With the recent news that a…
By Mike Fahey Published February 28, 2012 -
The World’s Most Famous Dark Elf Carves a Path to Neverwinter
Hoping to capture the attention of both traditional pen-and-paper role-players and video game RPG fans, Wizards of the Coast wants to put the city of Neverwinter on the minds of fantasy fans everywhere. That’s why they’ve called in the big guns: author R.A. Salvatore and his most famous creation, Drizzt Do’Urden. A conflicted dark elf…
By Mike Fahey Published October 4, 2011 -
CultureTotal RecallBefore They Were Superstars: BioWare
Canadian developers BioWare are known today for blockbuster series like Mass Effect, Dragon Age and the upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic We don’t care about those today. Today, for our younger/newer readers that may only know them for those franchises, we’re going back to 1995, where it all began. Unlike most (I’d be tempted…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 3, 2011 -
Dragon Age: Origins – A Tragedy in the Making
As “spiritual successor” to the Baldur’s Gate series, BioWare’s upcoming fantasy RPG has lot to live up to. Not to mention a console port expectation that no PC RPG has ever fulfilled. It doesn’t help that the game is being touted as a “new” take on the fantasy genre, or that the PC ship date…
By AJ Glasser Published March 30, 2009 -
Voice acting in video games
Voice acting in video games makes for popular feature fodder – check out these two articles on vocal talent behind video games if you don’t believe me. First up is “Characters you never knew had the same voiceover” from GamesRadar. Charlie Barrat lays out 21 examples of voice actors doubling up dubbing duties. Most of…
By AJ Glasser Published January 27, 2009