Divinity was one of the biggest reveals from yesterday’s The Game Awards event. Larian Studios was all set for the announcement, keeping us guessing with that statue in the desert. Unfortunately, the surprise didn’t hit as hard as the developer would have wished, as trademark filing leaks revealed that the statue was indeed teasing a new Divinity game.
However, Larian has never been one to shy away from the community, considering it won the Best Community Support Award. So, the studio decided to make the trademark filing, which spoiled the surprise, its banner picture on Twitter. Sure, their big surprise got ruined, but that’s one way of rolling with the punches.
Larian’s Divine Comedy
That statue had all of us guessing, with everything from Half-Life 3 to Elder Scrolls 6 being speculated. The trademark filings clearly revealed the design that featured on the statue, with Divinity attached to it. We now know how the statue came to be, thanks to the game’s gruesome trailer, and Larian director of publishing, Michael Douse, also gave us some information on it.
Larian Studios Announces New Divinity Game, “Larger Than Baldur’s Gate 3”
The talented devs behind Baldur’s Gate 3 are back with a brand-new Divinity game.
“It’s called the Hellstone,” he revealed in a tweet. “We’re all increasingly divorced from physicality, so we wanted to build a monument for not only our international teams to gather around, but for the rest of the gaming community to rally around. We wanted people to get excited for the next big game on their list, and we wanted to do it in a way that employed skill & craft, by hand, to drive people outside to see it, and to talk about it.”
Unfortunately, we still don’t know what the Hellstone is and what its role in Divinity will be. But if I had to guess, the bloody corpses fused together in an unholy manner could possibly suggest it’s a bad thing. Maybe. There’s also the name, but I don’t want to be too presumptuous.
As for the game itself, we know close to nothing. However, there’s a small chance that it will start off at a beach.
