GOTY – SamaGamer

A year ago no one could have expected it, but the Belgian company Larian Studios He hasn’t gotten tired of collecting awards and giving speeches. The reason is Baldur’s Gate 3, its monumental classic RPG that offers a practically unlimited amount of options to face the adventure. Now those also responsible for Divinity Original Sin have once again won some awards and continue to have interesting things to say.

And it is that the speech of the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 after receiving the GOTY at the DICE awards is to frame. In this case, it was not only Larian’s top executive, Swen Vincke, who gave the speech that echoes many of the current issues in the industry, but other heavyweights of the company have also appeared to thank everyone. the support they are receiving.

The speech of the creators of Baldur’s Gate 3 after receiving the GOTY at the DICE awards is to frame

These have been the words of Larian in his GOTY pickup speech at the DICE awards, as the developer has reported on Twitter Sarah M..

“Many, many people have been laid off at the beginning of this year. Don’t let the flame go out because of our collective mistakes. We don’t have shareholders, but we don’t think about them either.

(…)

We ask you to pay only one price for the game, and that’s it. You can own the game for the rest of your lives. “Building a community, building a player base, building games that are actually fun is what is going to make you money.”

In just a few sentences, Larian Studios has addressed and given its opinion on some of the hot topics in the video game industry right now, such as mass layoffs, ownership and creative freedom of studios and the most profitable business models. All of this at a time when the unviability of single player experiences is once again in the spotlight. Baldur’s Gate 3 has proven all the critics of this format wrong.

Remember that Baldur’s Gate 3 is now available on Xbox and other platforms, which has a physical edition on the way and which has not stopped adding awards and recognitions over the last few months. And all of them deservedly so.

The phrase almost seems routine: Steam has released a new update. Patch that adds options to the platform Valve which might well go unnoticed. However, here we are not facing one of those new versions that is almost not even worth paying attention to. In its place come some additions that promise radically transform the way in which some users relate to the platform. A coup of authority from a company that continues to demonstrate efforts to leave its competitors behind, reaffirming its intention to maintain a leadership position as outstanding as the one it has had over the last 15 years.

A perfect upgrade for multitaskers, the TikTok generation, and low budgets

Although now we will go into an in-depth review of all the additions, the main idea of the update is to offer us the possibility of overlay some tools offered by Steam on top of the game screen. For example, you can create notes about the game to remember your progress and make it permanently visible. Everything is done through Valve’s own client, with no need to ‘tab’ the game at any point or re- windows. This can be very useful, for example, if we are following a side quest from one of those games that doesn’t offer too much detail like Elden Ring either Hollow Knight.

However, this function, which seems like a blessing for classic players who know what it’s like to play a game with the notebook next to them, comes with other even more interesting functions. Do you want to watch a movie or some videos on YouTube while you play? Now you have at your disposal an improved browser offered by the Steam which can also be superimposed on the screen. It is perfectly compatible with all kinds of tools. If you wish, you can even put a movie in the browser and have it in the corner of your screen game to do two things at once while you spend hours playing a more relaxed game that may not require 100% of your attention.

A taste of what you can do with the new Steam features

The truth is that it is an idea with which we can only agree and that benefits, most notably, gamers who only have one screen. Maybe I, with my two monitors, will not get too much out of it. However, players with lower budgets have a chance to make some truly useful stuff. Especially if they belong to that generation accustomed to multitasking that, until now, perhaps had to go to their mobile phone to be able to watch videos while playing. In that sense, it seems that Steam has hit the nail on the head. It also offers options to modify the opacity of windows so that we can configure everything to our liking so that it does not bother.

Additionally, the Steam update has added the following changes:

Updated Steam Client notifications. There are now added options to choose which notifications you will see and where they will appear.
Visual and usability improvements to dialogs, menus, fonts, and colors. Included in this section is the screenshot manager, achievements and more.
Substantial improvements to the overlay in game. New visual section, customization, design and tools (those mentioned in this news) added. You can access it with the Shift + Tab command while playing the game.
Improved functionality with controller.
Mac and Linux can now use hardware acceleration.

Addon Pack is now available to all players and Some of the functions also affect Steam Deck. For example, if we save a note about a game while we are on the PC, we can later review it when we continue our session on the Valve console.