Baldur's Gate 3 News

Baldur's Gate 3's uber-hard honour mode has now been beaten in under 20 minutes, and I feel bad at video games

A Baldur's Gate 3 speedrunner has beaten the game’s formidably tough Honour mode in under 20 minutes, as part of a valiant crusade against the very idea of video games taking less time than it takes one of your grandparents to persuade their body to leave a comfy armchair.

Whether it’s managing to bed Lae’zel in a fashion that even one of Larian’s romance quest designers thinks is cool or finding a way to rapidly get it on with Halsin in bear form, if you aren’t familiar with BG3’s speedrunning community by now, I’m not quite sure what to say. That is, aside from the phrase ‘what this latest work of art and tell me how you feel about how crap you are at Larian’s RPG in comparison’.

Following on from fellow runner Chronos’s efforts to make everyone who’s tried the mode re-evaluate their talents, Mae’s casually become the first person to coast through it in less than twenty minutes. Their official time was 19 minutes and 32 seconds, a nice little improvement on the 21 minute and 17 second run they notched just a couple of weeks ago.

After winning multiple Game of the Year awards, Baldur's Gate 3 has just hit another milestone on Steam, as the Larian RPG has over half a million user reviews. That's impressive in its own right, of course, but the DnD game is also holding incredibly strong in terms of the positivity in these reviews, illustrating once again how the CRPG has taken the industry by storm.

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Baldur's Gate 3 hits half-a-million Steam reviews, and reading them has been 'pure joy,' says Swen Vincke

Larian founder Swen Vincke is reading our Baldur's Gate 3 Steam reviews, but if he hasn't read all of them, it's nothing personal: Even at a pace of five seconds per review, it would take the armor-clad CEO a month without breaks to get through every one of them. There are now over 500,000 reviews for Baldur's Gate 3 on Steam...
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Baldur's Gate 3's Astarion actor feels "no regret" for dumping you

We've all been dumped, let's face it. There's a moment of heartbreak, then anger, then heartbreak again; all washed down with copious amounts of ice cream and bad Netflix shows. When Baldur's Gate 3 was at its peak, my entire X (formerly Twitter) timeline was flooded with virtual tears - Astarion, once again, decided to break it off with yet another Tav, a tale as old as time (I'm not laughing, he dumped me, too). So, after speaking to myriad members of the gaming industry about our shared, world-ending experience, I decided to ask Astarion's actor, Neil Newbon, whether or not he regrets the fact that he's dumped millions of people.