Baldur's Gate 3 is coming to Early Access this year
Hasbro gave up the news in an investor presentation.
In an event for investors at New York Toy Fair, Hasbro has announced that Baldur's Gate 3 will come to Early Access later this year. The presentation highlighted seven Dungeons & Dragons-based game in development, including Baldur's Gate 3 and Dark Alliance. The plan is for one D&D-based game to be released every year until 2025. Hasbro is the parent company of Wizards of the Coast, who have licensed Dungeons & Dragons and Baldur's Gate to Larian Studios for the third game in the series.
Larian is no stranger to Early Access releases. Divinity Original Sin 2 came out in Early Access ahead of its main release with a limited section of the game's story. Baldur's Gate 3 will, according to the presentation, come to Early Access some time later this year.
This news comes after Wizards of the Coast has opened and started staffing a new studio, Archetype Entertainment, composed in large part of Bioware Austin veterans. That studio is working on a sci-fi project, but there was no further news on that front. The presentation also mentioned that 2019 was a record year for Wizards of the Coast, partly on income from Magic the Gathering: Arena.
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Jon Bolding is a games writer and critic with an extensive background in strategy games. When he's not on his PC, he can be found playing every tabletop game under the sun.
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