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Here’s a fairly incredible bit of modding work for you; BioWare’s classic RPG Baldur’s Gate completely remade in the Neverwinter Nights 2 engines, bringing it firmly into the third dimension. Called Baldur’s Gate Reloaded, it’s available via Nexusmods and requires you to have expansions as well as the core Neverwinter Nights 2 game. The mod was developed by a team of five as well as numerous contributors. Check out a trailer through the break.

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GoG.com is holding a really nice weekend deal called the D&D Dynamo Stacking Promo. It contains enough D&D titles to shake a stick at, including Baldurs Gate, Icewind Dale, Neverwinter Nights, Forgotten Realms: Demon Stone, The Temple of Elemental Evil, Planescape: Torment and others. If you want all 10 games, it will run you $21.10. Hurry before it ends. Thanks, EvilAvatar.

Beamdog boss Trent Oster has confirmed that Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will support cross-platform co-operative multiplayer. “iPad can play with Android, Mac and PC. One happy gaming family,” he said. The HD port releases on PC, Mac and iDevice in September with all new content.

Thanks, Joystiq.

The countdown clock on the Baldur’s Gate website has ended, announcing that the Enhanced Edition will be released on September 18 for Mac and iOS.

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A four-disc soundtrack for ArenaNet and NCsoft’s upcoming MMORPG, Guild Wars 2, is being offered via DirectSong. The aural epic is composed by Jeremy Soule, who has created music for dozens of video games, including titles in the Baldur’s Gate, Elder Scrolls and Warhammer franchises. A limited number of copies of the four-CD set of the Guild Wars 2 soundtrack will be signed by Soule. The soundtrack is available for purchase now, while Guild Wars 2 launches on PC on August 28.

Thanks, Destructoid.

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Beamdog would happily tackle Black Isle Studios’ classic RPG Icewind Dale if the Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition goes down well.

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Beamdog has announced that Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will release for OS-X as well as iOS and PC.

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Beamdog’s Cameron Tofer has said the studio would love to see a resurgence in top-down, party-based, strategy-RPGs, and is not only interested in restoring the classics, but is interested in creating new RPGs as well.

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Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition will be released on iPad this summer courtesy of Overhaul Games. It will launch alongside the PC release and include the same improvements as well as the Tales of the Sword Coast expansion pack all running on the Infinity Engine. This also includes the new story content, extra quests and a new member to the party. No exact date just yet.

Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition is just one step on the journey to a brand new Baldur’s Gate sequel.

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The wait is finally over.  Baldur’s Gate is back, and it’s… enhanced! More »

Just a friendly reminder from VG247′s resident Baldur’s Gate fan, that Beamdog’s teaser website will reveal itself at 7.00pm UK time today. At present, it’s still just the eerie music and a lovely skull logo, but today, as if by magic, the next step for the beloved RPG franchise will appear. The last outings in the series were for consoles: 2001′s stellar title from Snowblind, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance and 2004′s Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II from Black Isle Studios.

Settle down, kids – that teaser video has nothing to do with Beamdog’s Baldur’s Gate announce.

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The ex-BioWare staffers at Beamdog have resurrected the Baldur’s Gate website ahead of an upcoming reveal.

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Atari has announced two new PC collections of its Dungeons & Dragons-based back catalogue, including Planescape: Torment, Neverwinter Nights, Baldur’s Gate, and The Temple of Elemental Evil.

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That was a bit naughty.

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BioWare’s Greg Zeschuk has told Videogamer that since the company could not expand on characters in Baldur’s Gate, Dragon Age: Origins will be it’s spiritual successor.

So, that’s why they keep saying that.

“The things we miss more than anything else are some of the characters we created,” he said. “It’s frustrating – like Minsc and some of the other characters we built over the years – not being able to continue to stem that is a bit frustrating. Though, to be fair, we feel like we closed the series.

“There are a lot of video games that – like the original Wasteland – never had a sequel, but there are a lot of games that never actually end. Whatever happens, they’re left hanging and fans are like, ah I wish I’d finished it.

“But because we were able to finish the sequence of games in Baldur’s Gate: Throne of Bhaal… it’s funny, we were satisfied that we were able to deliver that entire arc. Go ‘there it is and that’s the story of Baldur’s Gate’. We feel like we finished our work at that time.

“We don’t have regrets.”

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Atari plans to revisit the likes of of D&D RPGs Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights, and open-world driver Test Drive Unlimited, but not in the next 12 months.

The news comes out of today’s Atari event in London.

Phil Harrison himself promised extensions to the much-loved franchises at the shindig.

Thanks, Eurogamer.