Baldur's Gate 3 News

Our Xbox friends will get to play Baldur's Gate 3 after all

The question of when Baldur's Gate 3 would release on Xbox, if ever, was uncertain until this week, not because of messy console exclusivity politics, but because of console gaming's gradual transformation into a wonky kind of PC gaming...
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Baldur's Gate 3 will release for Xbox this year, but it will be missing a key feature on Xbox Series S

Larian Studios has found a way to release Baldur's Gate 3 on Xbox Series X/S this year, thanks to a concession from Microsoft.

As mentioned in many of our BG3 news articles, the Xbox delay was due to issues getting split-screen co-op to work on Series S. Because Microsoft requires parity between the Series X and Series S, Larian was unable to provide a release date for the Xbox version until split-screen worked on Series S.

Microsoft worked with Larian on the issue, but it seems there hasn't been much headway as the game will now be released for the consoles, although without the split-screen feature on Series S.

I'm still shocked that the Warlock's Hexblade patron from Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition (D&D 5e) isn't in Baldur's Gate 3. For those unfamiliar, the Hexblade is a Warlock subclass from the rulebook Xanathar's Guide to Everything, focused on mixing martial might with pact magic. It's a perfect spellblade—sometimes called a 'gish' in the tabletop community...
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Beware the corpse nuke that can end your Baldur's Gate 3 playthrough with a bang

There are many ways to do massive damage in Baldur's Gate 3, we've learned. Players have devised an owlbear orbital strike and an impressively coordinated explosive barrel chain, but the greatest damage of all is hiding in your party just waiting for you to neglect it. Some early spoilers for Gale's storyline to follow, if you'd not guessed yet...
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Baldur's Gate 3 lets you disguise yourself from the dead

One of the joys of Baldur's Gate 3 is that if you can think of something, chances are you'll be able to do it. And even if you haven't thought of it, Larian Studios (developer of this fantasy RPG game) probably has. Larian's recent tweet is a case in point, revealing that you can disguise yourself in Baldur's Gate 3 when speaking to corpses.

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