After years of rumors and licensing rights moving between companies, Baldur's Gate III is finally confirmed to be in development.
Set within Dungeons & Dragons' Forgotten Realms world, Larian Studios has released a teaser trailer for the third installment in the popular PC fantasy role-playing game franchise, just ahead of this weekend's Electronic Entertainment Expo convention. Larian Studios is best known for releasing Divinity: Original Sin 2, a popular fantasy RPG released in 2017.
While the teaser trailer doesn't reveal any gameplay footage, it does show an insidious new threat arriving in the Forgotten Realms as a soldier succumbs to what appears to be a Lovecraftian evil in full, graphic detail, with the medieval city he's guarding apparently wiped out.
Set within the fantasy worlds of Dungeons & Dragons, the first Baldur's Gate was released in 1998 and launched a full sequel and five spinoff titles. The franchise would help expand Dungeons & Dragons to PC gaming while establishing original developer Bioware as one of the leading video game companies specializing in RPGs.
Baldur's Gate III is developed by Larian Studios. No release date has been announced, but it will be released for Google Stadia and PC.