The DICE Awards show is the celebration developers and fans deserve

The Baldur’s Gate 3 developers won Game of the Year, again, during the 27th annual DICE Awards. But in stark contrast to their 2023 Game Awards win, this time they actually got to speak.

“We don’t have shareholders, but we also don’t think about them,” said Larian Studios head of production David Walgrave. “Building a community, building a player base, building games that are actually fun is going to make you the most money.”

His words were a direct shot at Embracer Group CEO Lars Wingefors, who said during a recent earnings report that the company’s “overruling principle is to always maximize shareholder value in any given situation.”

Baldur’s Gate 3 has been crowned game of the year several times over, with its previous game of the…

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