PC

From Baldur’s Gate To Call Of Duty, Those Ex- Mass Effect Composers Are Doing Just Fine

While many composers worked on the Mass Effect soundtracks over the years, Sam Hulick and Jack Wall are the names most commonly associated with the game. Wall composed that emotional menu music that was hidden in Mass Effect 3, while Hulick composed the music that plays while navigating the galaxy map.


March 28, 2012
PC

They Hope Baldur’s Gate Will Revive The Classic RPG

Classic Western role-playing games are hard to find these days. The most successful ones are chimeras, like Mass Effect 3 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, games that graft a role-playing game’s quests and statistics onto shooting or action-based mechanics.


March 27, 2012
Mobile

Baldur’s Gate iPad Will Support Multiplayer

The enhanced iPad version of classic role-playing game Baldur’s Gate, slated for release in coming months, won’t cost you more than $US10. Also, it will support multiplayer.


March 23, 2012
Mobile

You’ll Be Able To Play Baldur’s Gate On Your iPad Soon

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 (northern) summer, developer Overhaul Games said today.


March 16, 2012
PC

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Announced, Server Explodes

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.


March 15, 2012
PC

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.


March 1, 2012
PC

This Baldur’s Gate Teaser Sure Takes Its Time To Tell Us Not Much

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.


February 29, 2012
PC

Baldur’s Gate Website Lurches To Life

It’s been 11 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.


October 5, 2011
News

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.


October 3, 2011
Retro

Before 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.