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Baldur's Gate
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Genres	Role-playing video game
Developers	BioWare Snowblind Studios Magic Pockets Black Isle Studios High Voltage Software Beamdog
Publishers	Black Isle Studios Interplay Entertainment Destination Software Atari
First release	Baldur's Gate November 30, 1998
Latest release	Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear March 31, 2016

Baldur's Gate is a franchise of role-playing video games set in the Forgotten Realms Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting. The game has spawned two series, known as the Bhaalspawn Saga and the Dark Alliance, both taking place mostly within the Western Heartlands, but the Bhaalspawn Saga extends to Amn and Tethyr. The Dark Alliance series was released exclusively to consoles and was critically and commercially successful. The Bhaalspawn Saga, too, was critically received using pausable realtime gameplay; it was credited for revitalizing the computer role-playing game (CRPG) genre.

The Bhaalspawn Saga was originally developed exclusively by BioWare for the Personal Computer. In 2012, Atari revealed that Beamdog and Overhaul Games would remake the games in HD. The Dark Alliance series was originally set to be developed exclusively by Snowblind Studios, but ports were handled by Black Isle Studios, High Voltage Software, and Magic Pockets, with the second game developed exclusively by Black Isle.

Black Isle Studios had planned a third series to be set in the Dalelands and be a PC exclusive hack and slash game with pausable real-time gameplay. The game would not have been connected to the Bhaalspawn Saga series and was cancelled when Interplay forfeited the D&D PC License to Atari.