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BALDUR’S FATE

Wizards of the Coast already talking to studios about next Baldur’s Gate

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/hasbro-wants-to-make-another-baldurs-gate-sequel-but-its-early-days-yet-we-certainly-hope-that-its-not-another-25-years/

BG3 first game in history to win all five major GOTY awards https://www.mmorpg.com/news/baldurs-gate-3-takes-game-of-the-year-at-every-major-industry-award-2000131166

Larian Studios working on 2 new original IP games

https://kotaku.com/baldurs-gate-3-larian-new-next-game-ip-divinity-rpg-1851419091

Swen has given a couple of interviews previously

One to IGN https://www.ign.com/articles/larian-started-work-on-baldurs-gate-3-dlc-then-canceled-it-the-studio-was-elated

Implied next game may be in Divinity universe: “When asked if the next game would be Divinity: Original Sin 3, Vincke could neither confirm nor deny. He did, however, say it will be "different than what you think it is" but that it's "still familiar."”

Also spoke to GameSpot https://www.gamespot.com/articles/baldurs-gate-3-dev-is-working-toward-an-rpg-that-dwarfs-it/1100-6522051/

“Prior to development on Baldur's Gate 3, Larian CEO Swen Vincke was already planning out the company's future, and this included what he calls "the very big RPG that will dwarf them all."” https://lmg.gg/KETRi (GameSpot)

“Vincke explained that Larian's next game also won't actually be the aforementioned "very big RPG," but will be another step toward realizing it.” https://lmg.gg/kSjm6 (GameSpot)

Baldur’s Gate 3 patch 7

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1086940/view/4172097464031362567

Features quote from “Excited Swen” https://lmg.gg/BjlE3 (Larian via Steam post)

Lae’zel image https://www.dexerto.com/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=60,format=auto/https://editors.dexerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/10/Bloody-Laezel.jpg

A WAR WITHIN THE WAR WITHIN

Blizzard in hot water for a couple of reasons

Overwatch 2 season 10 leaves players waiting for over an hour in the ranked queue

https://kotaku.com/overwatch-2-queue-times-ranked-wide-group-season-10-1851415862

Fans playing matches of other games while waiting https://twitter.com/froggerupdates/status/1780486578219217298

https://twitter.com/aspenisoffline/status/1780536894595715569

Probably really busy with upcoming WoW expansion

Big plans for Worldsoul Saga https://www.eurogamer.net/blizzard-says-its-time-to-make-a-bold-statement-with-world-of-warcraft

Next two expansions already in development https://lmg.gg/dynsS (Eurogamer)

WoW VP says they still want to bring MMO to Xbox, but don’t have time

https://www.gamesradar.com/world-of-warcraft-vice-president-says-the-dream-remains-to-bring-the-mmo-to-xbox-even-if-theres-no-room-for-that-conversation-yet/

WoW expansion filled with spiders, so Blizzard made a crab-based arachnophobia mode

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/world-of-warcraft/wow-the-war-withins-new-arachnophobia-filter-that-turns-spiders-into-crabs-was-mapped-out-by-a-lone-developer-but-she-had-a-wonderful-timeshe-likes-spiders/

Single dev had to look at every single spider that spawned in an expansion about a tremendous battle against an empire of spiders https://lmg.gg/NVktS (PC Gamer)

WINDEPENDENT

Nintendo Switch Indie World Showcase

https://youtu.be/lTjjKC9gHPM

Refind Self: The Personality Test Game https://youtu.be/QHoWSjUrhhM

Europa https://youtu.be/CTj1ndTPknY

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2024/04/europa-is-a-beautiful-adventure-game-with-shades-of-studio-ghibli-and-breath-of-the-wild

Yars Rising, sequel to an Atari 2600 game called Yars’ Revenge https://www.engadget.com/yars-rising-revives-a-40-year-old-atari-game-as-a-modern-metroidvania-163023972.html

Yars Rising trailer https://youtu.be/s6XI97wIPhU

That Atari game looked like this https://youtu.be/pvjajVf3BEc

Steamworld Heist 2 https://youtu.be/QfGfBMxhtT4

Details https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/steamworld-heist-2-revealed-bringing-a-ragtag-crew-of-seafaring-robots-to-pc-this-august

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