2023-08-22 16:24:00
The developer rose to prominence in 2014 with “Divinity: Original Sin”, released with crowdfunding of over $940,000. More than 500,000 copies will be sold in less than three months.
This success, coupled with its sequel in 2017, saw Larian Studios expand to Barcelona, Dublin, Kuala Lumpur, Quebec and Guildford, and convinced publisher Wizards of the Coast to hire him to develop the third installment. of Baldur’s Gate.
The Belgian studio, which has more than 400 employees, released this title in early access from 2020 to allow players to send comments to the developers in order to improve the game, until its final release in August 2023. According to Swen Vincke, interviewed last July, the sales of the early version of Baldur’s Gate III are five times higher than those of his previous creation, “Divinity: Original Sin II”.
The title received positive reviews from both the press and the public, as evidenced by its score of 96 out of 100 on the review aggregator, Metacritic. The game thus allows the Larian studio to position itself as one of the main developers of a video game industry that weighs more than 200 billion dollars.
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