So what was Geoff Keighley’s demonic statue erected in the Mojave desert was all about? As it was revealed during the 2025 The Game Awards, it was all a teaser for Larian Studios’ next game, Divinity.
The devs behind critical acclaim RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 and the underrated Divinity series is making a new Divinity game, called Divinity. One word. No subtitle like Divinity: Dragon Commander, not a follow-up to Divinity: Original Sin I or II. No adjectives in front like Divine Divinity. It’s just known now as Divinity.
Fascinatingly, despite there are eight Divinity games, including a Divinity II, this is the first game in the series to be titled Divinity. It’s a similar Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit situation if you will, where there was never a Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit game titled as such until the third game in 2010.
The demonic statue is indeed demonic, called the Hellstone. The teaser trailer for Divinity that combines live theatrics of people being pulled up in the air as well as one gory, disturbing premise of a trailer. For the faint of heart, skip the next paragraph and don’t watch the trailer.
It centers on the burning an effigy as part of some medieval festival, with an alive person in it, while kids are watching said person grotesquely burned alive until it spawns something that essentially skewers the entire congregating masses into the remnants of that effigy, with implications of one person getting trampled to death in all the chaos. The lesson here is to don’t show kids gore, and this trailer.
The new Divinity site reads: “Built by the team who brought you Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before. At least, that’s the plan.”
Baldur’s Gate 3 was revealed with a similar evocative CG trailer, though Divinity tops that by some metric.
Divinity will have ties to Divinity: Original Sin and Divinity: Original Sin II, so players who played through those “will be able to enjoy greater understanding and continuity,” according to the press release of the announcement. Though it’s by no means required reading, one can play this as a standalone title.
To the team at Larian Studios based in Belgium with multiple offices around the world including here in Malaysia, godspeed.