Desperate for news on the Baldur’s Gate IP’s post-Larian future? Well, a Hasbro exec says you should hear something “in pretty short order”

We’re all nonetheless eagerly ready for Larian to drop Baldur’s Gate 3‘s Patch 8 as soon as it is completed stress testing the thing, however we have recognized it will not be making regardless of the subsequent entry within the collection finally ends up being for some time now.

IP proprietor Hasbro has been left to that, needing to seek out a fresh developer or partner to select up the mantle and make one thing that may comply with the beautiful powerful act that’s BG3. The excellent news is that it appears like we must always hear some one thing on that entrance sooner or later within the close to future.

Talking to IGN at GDC, Hasbro senior vice chairman of digital video games Dan Ayoub steered that whereas the corporate has nothing concrete to share concerning the way forward for Baldur’s Gate, it reckons it ought to soonish.

“We’re sort of understanding our plans for the longer term and what we’ll be doing with that,” the exec stated, “And truly, in fairly brief order, we’ll have some stuff to speak about round that.”

Cool. Other than the indication that it would even have a factor to share quickly, Ayoub’s feedback appear fairly much like what Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast senior vice chairman of digital technique and licensing Eugene Evans said last year. There have been numerous people eager to do a Baldur’s Gatey factor that the corporate’s been chatting to and it feels no cause to hurry into something uber-quickly.

By way of the stress in inherent to following one thing as beloved as BG3, Ayoub steered Hasbro and whichever companion/companions it picks will likely be as much as that problem, saying: “I believe that is our hope, proper? We’d maintain elevating the bar and everybody simply tries to go just a little increased.”

Come on Hasbro. Swerve us all and make a gritty buddy cop FPS starring Gale and Lae’zel to be able to throw everybody for a loop whereas whoever you have picked to do Baldur’s Gate 4 quietly works their magic within the background till they’re able to ship.

Till then, although, BG3’s beginning to produce an entire load of interesting and ambitious custom campaign mods that may assist tide us throughout.