Beamdog may be making a new Planescape: Torment RPG
UPDATE: No, it is not.
UPDATE: Beamdog has responded, and I'm afraid while it was exploring an idea called Planescape: Unravelled, ultimately the idea didn't amount to much.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Key events
3rd December 2012
23rd November 2012
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition gameplay trailer shows off improved Infinity Engine
2nd November 2012
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition release date moved... forward!
27th July 2012
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition release date, price announced
30th March 2012
22nd March 2012
15th March 2012
Baldur's Gate: SoD head of studio addresses political backlash
Promises to further develop its trans character, condemns those harassing studio staff.
Yesterday Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear suffered a lot of backlash at launch over the game's numerous bugs and some concerns that its inclusion of a transgender character was overly politically correct. Studio Beamdog's CEO Trent Oster stood up for the company's decision and condemned the online harassment some of its staff has received.
New Baldur's Gate expansion Siege of Dragonspear off to a rough start
Criticisms of bugs and a political agenda plague product reviews.
It's been a rough start for new Baldur's Gate expansion Siege of Dragonspear - yes you read that correctly, a very old game has a new expansion (it was released 31st March).
The £15 game, which requires the Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate (significantly reduced in price on GOG) to run, is getting a stream of negative reviews on shops Steam and GOG.
A lot - probably the majority - of the negative reviews mention problems with bugs that result in game crashes and mods not working. And multiplayer apparently barely works at all.
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear is out now
Classic RPG receives DLC 18 years on.
Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear, the new official DLC to an 18-year-old RPG, has just launched on Steam for £14.99 / $19.99.
Veteran BioWare writer David Gaider seems to have a new job
"He seems pretty cool so far."
UPDATE 09/02/2015 7.50pm: Beamdog CEO Trent Oster offered the following statement about Gaider's recent employment at the studio:
Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 Enhanced Edition team making new in-between game
But "nothing in the works" regarding BG3.
The team behind the Enhanced Edition re-releases of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 is making a completely new game in the series - not Baldur's Gate 3 but a game codenamed Adventure Y that will bridge the gap between BG1 and BG2.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition back on sale
"Legal issues are never fun."
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is back on sale after more then a month in the dark following "contractual issues" with publisher Atari.
UPDATE: Atari requested the game be pulled from App Store. Still on sale elsewhere.
UPDATE: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition was pulled from App Store at the request of publisher Atari.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition out on Mac on 22nd Feb
THAC0 very much.
Finally the Mac version of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is finished. It'll be out on Friday (22nd) on Beamdog's site. A Mac App Store version will follow.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition screenshots
14 years later...
14 years later...
A comparison.
Enhancing Baldur's Gate: the BioWare veterans who dared
The problems, the future promises and a trip down memory lane.
Remaking a game as beloved as Baldur's Gate is a road fraught with peril. It's 14 years old, it's got old mechanics, heck it's even got old Dungeons & Dragons rules. Time stands still in memories, but exhume a legend like that and in the harsh light of 2012 you risk it looking a bit rotten, whatever the spirit lingering within. So why do it? I mean, you can buy Baldur's Gate on Good Old Games for half the price and it'll work on all current Windows builds - it isn't dead and buried along with some obscure, archaic system.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition out now on iPad for £7
Better get that robe and wizard hat on.
The wait is over: Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition has been released on iPad for £6.99.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition review
To koboldly go once again?
The good news is that nothing has gone drastically wrong. Beamdog hasn't broken Baldur's Gate and it hasn't done a clumsy job of crowbarring in the extra features it's added. The vast majority of the changes made to this classic role-player are about clarity and accessibility and are seamlessly integrated. If it were a DVD reissue, the Enhanced Edition would be closer to The Lord of the Rings: Extended Edition than Star Wars: Special Edition.
But imagine the DVD skipping a few times.
The bad news is that the paint hasn't dried, the nails haven't been hammered all the way in and, sooner or later, you're likely to snag yourself on something. Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is more than a little rickety and has some surprising omissions.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition out today on PC but delayed on Android, Mac, iPad
Crash-bug failed approval.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is out today! But only on PC.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition gameplay trailer shows off improved Infinity Engine
Look at the inventory screen!
Beamdog has released a gameplay trailer of Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition, giving us our closest look yet at the remake.
Overhaul Games used an improved version of the Infinity Engine to build Enhanced Edition. There's a new inventory screen, too.
BG:EE includes the entire Baldur's Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack and new content, including a new adventure and three new party members: the Calishite monk Rasaad yn Bashir, Neera the wild mage and Dorn Il-Khan, the evil blackguard.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition release date moved... forward!
Elfing brilliant.
The Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition date has been moved slightly... forward!
Overhaul Games' retro revamp now quests towards a 28th November release on Android (tablets), iOS (iPad), PC and Mac. The old date was 30th Nov.
"We are targeting November 28 for all platforms," tweeted man in charge, Trent Oster. "Since we have approvals etc. we can't 100 per cent control the date on iOS, Mac and Android."
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition delayed from September to November
Obviously to go up against Call of Duty.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition isn't finished, so won't launch on 18th September as was planned. Developer Overhaul Games has pushed the remake/remaster back to 30th November.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition release date, price announced
Windows version pre-purchase goes live.
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition launches on 18th September 2012, Beamdog has announced.
It costs $19.99. If you pre-purchase you save $2.
Enhanced Edition, built on an upgraded version of the Infinity Engine, includes the entire Baldur's Gate adventure, the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack, and new content, including a new adventure and three new party members.
Dave Gross, a writer steeped in Dungeons & Dragons history, has joined the Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition team.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition not coming to Wii U
"Nintendo isn't a good platform for developers. The Wii is a toy, not a console."
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition distributor Beamdog has indicated the game won't be released for Wii U.
Baldur's Gate Extended Edition dev eyes Icewind Dale
Plus, Baldur's Gate 3 theorised.
The developer behind Baldur's Gate Extended Edition is interested in tackling much-loved role-playing game Icewind Dale - but only if its current efforts are successful.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition Mac OS X screenshots
This summer via the App Store.
This summer via the App Store.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition will also be released on Mac OS X this summer, developer Overhaul Games has announced.
That takes BG:EE platforms to three: PC, iPad and OS X.
"The Enhanced Edition will include a variety of Mac OS X specific features, including widescreen and iCloud support," promised Overhaul on the BG:EE website.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition confirmed for iPad
Features all the content from the PC version, plus new UI.
The recently announced Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition is coming to iPad as well as PC, developer Overhaul Games has announced.
As revealed on the game's official site, it'll be available for download some time this Summer, runs on a modified version of Baldur's Gate 2 Infinity Engine and includes all the content included in the PC version.
It's not clear whether Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition will also make it to iOS.
Baldur's Gate 3 is "our long-term goal", says Beamdog
Former BioWare devs considering Kickstarter funding.
The developer behind the forthcoming Enhanced Editions of the first two Baldur's Gate titles eventually hopes to get a third game in the classic RPG franchise off the ground.
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition announced
UPDATE: Powered-up Baldur's Gate 2 coming as well.
UPDATE: The reveal website is now up and running and adds that an Enhanced Edition of Baldur's Gate 2 is also in the works.
"Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition and Baldur's Gate 2: Enhanced Edition will feature a re-forged version of the Infinity Engine with a variety of modern improvements," reads the official blurb.
ORIGINAL STORY: Classic '90s BioWare RPG Baldur's Gate gets a new Enhanced Edition this Summer, developer Beamdog has announced.