[Ellester]

Actually before Interplay folded, they lost rights to use Baldurs Gate in their Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance games. What Interplay did get though was the franchise name of Dark Alliance. The owner said before they folded that a Dark Alliance 3 would be made, but it wouldn’t be d&d.

So, I think it’s both. Brand recognition for the consoles were the Dark Alliance name and the Baldurs Gate name.

Even though I never played the DA games, those two releases along with the new BG cell phone game are proving it's becoming more of a franchise.

Btw, I do agree with egervari baldurs gate is now a concept. BG3 doesn’t have to be a continuation of the story, or even a prequel , imo. What it does need to have though, it needs to be d&d, it needs to be set in Faerun, it needs to have the same gameplay of BG1 and BG2. And it must have references to the other games or the history must be mentioned at some point. This would make it a series and/or franchise rather than a sequel and that would be fine by me. I just want another game that plays like BG1 and BG2.