Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound

This article is about the cancelled video game. For the 2023 video game, see Baldur's Gate 3.

Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound
DeveloperBlack Isle Studios
PublisherInterplay Entertainment
Designers
SeriesBaldur's Gate
PlatformMicrosoft Windows
ReleaseCancelled
GenreRole-playing
ModeSingle-player

Baldur's Gate III: The Black Hound was a cancelled role-playing video game developed by Black Isle Studios and to be published by Interplay Entertainment for Microsoft Windows. Announced in 2002 under the codenames FR6 and Project Jefferson, it was planned to be the third main entry in the Baldur's Gate series, utilizing the Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition ruleset. The game was set to use the developer's proprietary 3D graphics engine rather than the Infinity Engine used for the studio's previous games.

The Black Hound was cancelled in 2003 when Interplay lost the rights to develop further Dungeons & Dragons games for the PC platform. Development at Black Isle Studios moved onto a sequel to the Fallout series codenamed Van Buren, which was itself cancelled in late 2003. Black Isle Studios would develop a further spin-off to the series, Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II, before being shut down by Interplay on 8 December 2003.

In 2019, Larian Studios announced an unrelated Baldur's Gate 3. It was released in 2023 to critical acclaim.

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