Sometimes, information leaks. Sometimes, that 'leak' is a marketing tease - a cryptic message here, a hint there. Something that the game's publisher maybe didn't greenlight, but no legal department could find a case for.
This is not one of those times. 5 years ago, Larian's Publishing Director got really drunk one night and just told people the release date of Baldur's Gate 3. For the funny, presumably.
But hey, if a tree falls in a forest and nobody is around to hear it, could it really have spoiled Baldur's Gate 3 for everyone?
Analogies aside, the release date for Larian's ever-popular title was written on a bottle of whiskey, and just left in a bar for all to see.
How We Discovered Baldur's Gate 3's Hidden Leak
A half-decade after the incident, with apparently nobody picking up on it, Michael Douse (the aforementioned Publishing Director) took to X to loop the public in on what was right in front of their noses.
"5 years and a pandy ago," he says, "I wrote the BG3 release date on this bottle of whiskey and let it hang at the bar, and nobody found it."
Douse also teases...
