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Mass Effect 3 Composer Recruited for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition

Video game developer Overhaul Games has announced that Sam Hulick will be the composer tasked with adding new, original music tracks to the upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition.Sam Hulick is best known for the work he has done on the Mass Effect series from BioWare, where he has worked on all three core tit...

14 May 2012
15:11 GMT

Legend of Grimrock: Expand the Universe, Conquer Modern Fantasy

I really like Legend of Grimtock, even though I kind of got stuck on a puzzle and I feel like I need to give the game some time before trying yet again to make some progress. While not playing old school role-playing experience from Almost Human, I have thought about how the series, which apparently recouped its dev...

12 May 2012
18:51 GMT

Wizard of the Coast Support Essential for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition Success

The Enhanced Edition of Baldur’s Gate is getting closer to its summer 2012 launch date on the PC and iOS-powered tablets and the development team working on it believes that it can create an experience that mixes the best of both gaming worlds. Cameron Tofer, who is the chief operating officer at Overhaul Game...

7 May 2012
10:21 GMT

Dave Gross Will Write New Quests for Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition

The upcoming Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will get new content when it arrives during the summer and Dave Gross, an author who has experience when it comes to the Dungeons &Dragons universe, will be the man to write it.The writer has delivered such novels as Black Wolf and Lord of Stormweather, both set in t...

28 April 2012
02:12 GMT

Baldur’s Gate Remake Will Have Raised Level Cap, Same Party Limits

The remake of Baldur’s Gate is set to arrive during the summer, with a number of new quests for players to enjoy and some new characters, and the development studio working on the game has offered details on other changes that will be made to the experience in order to accommodate the added content. Speaking o...

18 April 2012
03:04 GMT

Beamdog Has Plans to Also Remake Icewind Dale

The remade Baldur’s Gate titles are still some time from launch, but the developers at Beamdog are already thinking about how they could use the same processes to remake the Icewind Dale franchise, another much loved top-down party-based role-playing game. Trent Oster, one of the leaders of Beamdog who has pre...

13 April 2012
20:11 GMT

Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Editions Will Challenge Current RPG Conventions

The top down party-based tactics role-playing game is all but extinct these days, but at least one developer hopes that a revival is in the works as long as the new editions of the Baldur’s Gate titles are successful when launched during the summer of 2012. Cameron Tofer, who is one of the co-founders of Beamd...

28 March 2012
07:04 GMT

A Gamer’s Week: March 18

The biggest game of this week has undoubtedly been Mass Effect 3, the mix between action and role playing from BioWare and Electronic Arts, and, amid the controversies and discussions about the ending, we managed to deliver a largely spoiler-free full Softpedia review of the game. We also have a Gamer Diary linked t...

18 March 2012
06:11 GMT

Enhanced Edition for Both Baldur’s Gate Titles Has New Content

The development team at Overhaul Games, with full official support from both publisher Atari and Wizards of the Coast, have announced that some of the members of the team who have worked on the original titles are now working on the Enhanced Editions for the two Baldur’s Gate games and that new content will be ...

16 March 2012
11:24 GMT

Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Out in Summer

It turns out that the big Baldur's Gate announcement that was teased earlier today is actually Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, a brand new version of the original game that's updated for current platforms.Baldur's Gate fans pretty much lost all hope of seeing a new game in the series but it seems...

15 March 2012
15:52 GMT

The Old Republic Aims for Same Success as KOTOR

Star Wars: The Old Republic is now out and two of the main developers working on the MMO say that they know that it can reach the same success as the Knights of the Old Republic role-playing series that has managed to impress in the early years of the century. James Ohlen, who is the game director working on The Old...

22 December 2011
02:51 GMT

Brian Fargo Believes Role Playing Games Need Better Writing

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim might just be the biggest role playing game launched of 2012 and at least one leading develop linked to the genre believes that this type of game can dominate the future of video games as long as writers and developers take care to create complex, believable worlds.Speaking at the GDC Chin...

14 November 2011
17:01 GMT

Atari Brings Back Classic Dungeons & Dragons Games in Collections

Video game publisher Atari has announced that it is planning to launch two new collections of classic games that are based around the Dungeons & Dragons universe, including such names as Baldur's Gate and Planescape: Torment.The aptly named Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection includes six games: ...

11 November 2011
15:11 GMT

The Witcher 2 Might Get Baldur's Gate Like Expansion

The Witcher 2 might just be the best role playing game of this year and on September 29 the game is getting the 2.0 update, which is designed to iron out all the issues that the initial release had while adding a number of improvements, a new game mode and a tutorial.Speaking to Rock, Paper, Shotgun as part of a...

28 September 2011
13:31 GMT

BioWare Will Integrate Fan Feedback into Dragon Age II

Dragon Age II was a game that split the fan base of the original titles, with some praising the changes made by developers BioWare and some saying that the quality of the experience declined when compared to Origins, but it seems that its creators have no regrets about it and plan to integrate the best feedback they ...

11 August 2011
19:01 GMT

BioWare Writer Stands Up to Dragon Age Story Criticism

Dragon Age: Origins is now out all over the world and role playing fans are digging through its huge story and universe, trying different character combinations and various solutions to the conundrums the game presents.Those who love the role playing genre and fans of previous BioWare releases went one step ahead and...

11 November 2009
07:11 GMT

No Birds Eye View for Console Dragon Age: Origins

It seems that BioWare is turning the PC version of its upcoming role playing game, Dragon Age: Origins, into something special by making it the only one where players can zoom out enough so that they get the birds eye tactical view used to control the party in the classic Baldur's Gate series, which was also bui...

16 October 2009
15:01 GMT

Atari Picks Up Sam & Max, Talks About Baldur's Gate

Atari has been making a lot of announcements lately. It seems that the company is pretty interested in getting in the music game market, creating a project called QJ, thought to be a competitor to the already launched Wii Music.Atari is also joining forces with Traveller's Tales in order to bring the second seas...

4 December 2008
06:28 GMT

Star Wars MMO Will Be Story Driven

We might have been aware, but there's nothing as exciting for Star Wars fans as an official announcement regarding a game based on the license. And when the companies behind the project are BioWare and LucasArts, the official announcement is always packed with interesting pieces of information regarding the upco...

28 October 2008
17:01 GMT

At E3 BioWare Boss Hails Dragon Age as Spiritual Successor to Baldur's Gate

Electronic Arts promised that the E3 trade show would be the place where more details regarding Dragon Age would become available. BioWare, which is now a studio fully owned by EA, has made good on the promise and offered some very interesting information regarding the role playing game.The first interesting tidbit o...

15 July 2008
03:22 GMT

Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal Cheats (PC)

War breaks out throughout Tethyr between the agitated Bhaalspawn who turn out to be numerous and fight each other for power. The player must venture through treacherous regions, including the besieged city of Saradush, the Fire Giant-controlled Marching Mountains, and the desert village of Amkethran. Five legendary B...

3 December 2007
10:35 GMT

Baldur's Gate Cheats - Item Name List (PC)

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3 December 2007
06:03 GMT

Baldur's Gate Cheats (PC)

Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game in a high fantasy setting, developed by BioWare and released in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. It is widely regarded as one of the premier single-player titles in the history of the computer role-playing genre. Baldur's Gate was the first game in the Baldur�...

30 November 2007
10:09 GMT

Baldur's Gate Secrets and Glitches (PC)

Baldur's Gate is a computer role-playing game in a high fantasy setting, developed by BioWare and released in 1998 by Interplay Entertainment. It was the first game in the Baldur's Gate series, which spawned a further three software titles before the story arc was concluded. It was immediately followed by ...

2 August 2007
09:15 GMT


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