Baldurs Gate 3 Hasbro Will Reveal Details About the Future of the Franchise Soon
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With the incredible success of Larians RPG Baldurs Gate 3, Hasbro seems to be keen on expanding the franchise further. Hasbros SVP of digital games, Dan Ayoub, revealed in a conversation with IGN at GDC 2025 that the company is internally working on future plans for the Baldurs Gate franchise, and that fans should expect some details in pretty short order.Were kind of working out our plans for the future and what were going to be doing with that. And actually, in pretty short order, were going to have some stuff to talk about around that, said Ayoub.For some context, Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast the company in charge of the Dungeons & Dragons franchise, alongside other properties like trading card game Magic: The Gathering. While Ayoub didnt expand too much on what kind of future plans were in store for Baldurs Gate as a franchise, he did mention that a sequel to Larians RPG is something he would like to see.Its somewhat of an unenviable position, said Ayoub. I mean, were not in a hurry. Right? Thats the thing, were going to take a very measured approach Weve got a lot of plans, a lot of different ways to go about it. Were starting to think about, okay, yeah, were ready to start dipping toes a little bit and talking about a few things. And I think, in really short order, like I said, again, not to over-tease that point, were going to have some other things to talk about around that.Ayoub also spoke about how Hasbro would keep the momentum that Dungeons & Dragons as a property got from the release of Baldurs Gate 3. Wizards of the Coast, for example, recently kicked off its refresh of the fifth edition rules for the Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG.Im never one to shy down from a challenge, he said. And I think anything that forces us to raise our creative bar, and developers love to have a high bar to go after, and I think weve actually seen the team push some really interesting ideas that theyre like, Okay, we need to raise our bar. We need to go bigger on this. And things like that. So, I think thats our hope, right? We would keep raising the bar and everyone just tries to go a little higher.Ayoubs statements are a reflection of similar ones made by Hasbros SVP of Digital Strategy and Licensing Eugene Evans, who spoke about the company talking to partners about the future of the Baldurs Gate franchise back in April 2024. He Evans also spoke about the cast of Baldurs Gate 3 showing back up in future games down the line, since they were beloved by players.Larian created a much loved cast of characters, who were even celebrated by their nominations, the voice actors behind them and the talent behind them was celebrated at the [BAFTAS], and they are now essentially part of D&D canon, said Evans. I think its too early to express specifics and I think that theres a much bigger question about how we approach Baldurs Gate in the future. But I would like to think that all of those characters, for the sake of the fans, could potentially appear in future products.Baldurs Gate 3 is available on PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Check out our review for more details.
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