Baldur's Gate II

GB Feature: Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear Review

It’s been a Baldur’s Gate-heavy several months for us as we’ve been busy bringing our original subsite up to our modern day standards, but within this bevy of work, we’ve also made a point of reviewing Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear.…

How Fallout and Baldur’s Gate Changed RPGs Forever

IGN published a short but interesting video segment on Fallout and Baldur’s Gate and their impact on the industry at large, which includes short interviews with the likes of Fallout developers Tim Cain and Leonard Boyarsky, Baldur’s Gate lead designer…

GB Feature: Baldur’s Gate Subsite Overhaul

BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate series is what originally put GameBanshee on the map (we were the “official fansite” for both titles way back in the day), so with the continued developments around the Infinity Engine series by Beamdog, we wanted to…

Baldur’s Gate Durlag’s Tower Design Video Series

In Extra Credits’ latest “Design Club” video series, they spend a great deal of time analyzing the design of Durlag’s Tower, the substantial, multi-level dungeon introduced in BioWare’s Baldur’s Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack, and one that…

A Thorough Look at the Baldur’s Gate Series

Videogame critic and YouTube Noah Caldwell-Gervais — who some of us remember for his for the most part excellent video essays and retrospectives that are unfortunately often marred by low production values — has published a thorough look of the…

BioWare Forums to be Shuttered

A post on the official BioWare blog brings word that the EA-owned developer intends to shutter their long-running forums on August 26th of this year. I can’t say that I spent more than a brief period of time on the…

Beamdog Hiring for Unannounced Dungeons & Dragons CRPG

Thanks to a tweet by David Gaider, we now know that Beamdog is actively recruiting for “an upcoming (and currently unannounced) CRPG in the Dungeons & Dragons universe.” Does that mean we’re in store for an enhanced edition of Icewind…

Baldur’s Gate Series and Infinity Engine v2.2 Patch Released

The team at Beamdog has released another extensive patch for Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Edition, Baldur’s Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, and the Infinity Engine as a whole, bringing the entire Forgotten Realms-based RPG series up to…