According to a report at GameSpot, a new episode in the saga of "Baldur's Gate," built in the classic Infinity Engine, is in development at Beamdog, which published the recent Enhanced Editions of "Baldur's Gate," "Baldur's Gate II," and "Icewind Dale" on its digital distribution platform. The new adventure, with the working title "Adventure Y," takes place between the events of the first and second game...a "pre-sequel," if you will.
Beamdog co-founder Trent Oster previously tweeted about "Adventure Y" in 2012 as "intimately linked to the Bhaalspawn storyline." The Bhaalspawn, children of the evil god Bhaal, are central to the "Baldur's Gate" story. A recent post on the company's Beamblog clarified the link between "Adventure Y" and the original, ground-breaking RPGs. The post guarantees more details about content and a release date this coming spring. It also links to a number of phone-snapped screenshots from the game's development that were leaked to the "Baldur's Gate" forum in October.
"Baldur's Gate" first came out in 1998, defining an era of computer role-playing games. It was the second game from developer BioWare, putting that studio on the map and starting a run of blockbuster RPGs like "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic," "Mass Effect," and "Dragon Age: Origins." Beamdog was launched as a digital distribution platform in 2010 by Oster, a BioWare co-founder, and Cameron Tofer, a former BioWare lead programmer. In 2012, Beamdog created Overhaul Games as its development division to build "MDK2 HD," and that team went on to develop the three Infinity Engine RPG Enhanced Editions.
