We Think We Know What Geoff Keighley's Weird Desert Statue Is Teasing

Earlier this month, a large, demonic-looking monolith appeared successful the Mojave Desert, and Geoff Keighley tweeted a photograph of it. The monolith featured figures of each sorts of unusual creators: skeletons, alligators, soldiers, a wolf, and more. In the clip since, online gaming enthusiasts person been eagerly speculating arsenic to what the monolith and Keighley were teasing up of The Game Awards. Diablo 4? The Elder Scrolls 6? God of War? Bloodborne 2? Altered Beast?

Well, the enigma whitethorn person been solved successful beforehand of The Game Awards connected Thursday. As spotted by MP1st, immoderate recently registered trademarks uncover a crippled and a logo that looks fundamentally identical to a awesome connected the monolith. And those trademarks look to beryllium for a caller Divinity game, from Larian Studios.

How bash we know? Well, let's instrumentality a look astatine 1 of the trademarks. It's for an image, and it looks similar this:

Now comparison that to the large awesome astatine the halfway of the statue:

So yeah, that's decidedly the aforesaid symbol, truthful we're successful the close place. Now, however bash we cognize it's Divinity? Let's look astatine the adjacent trademark registered astatine the aforesaid clip by the aforesaid company, simply for "Divinity", with a logo attached.

Now we're getting somewhere! It's not exact, but it's rather comparable to past Divinity: Original Sin logos:

And adjacent person to the older Divinity games, slashed done "i" and all.

Okay, possibly it's each conscionable a large coincidence? Sure, I guess. But there's 1 much clue. All 3 trademarks were filed by Ihde & Partner Rechtsanwälte, a ineligible steadfast that, among different things, has antecedently filed trademarks for Larian Studios, including past Divinity: Original Sin trademarks.

So that's beauteous chopped and dry. But what astir that 3rd trademark? This is wherever things get a spot much mysterious. This trademark is besides conscionable for an image, this 1 here:

What's that? I person nary idea. But it's astir apt related, fixed it was filed connected the aforesaid time by the aforesaid steadfast and is successful a akin benignant to the different trademarks. Maybe we'll find retired connected Thursday.

Critically, this seems to beryllium for a caller Divinity...NOT a Divinity: Original Sin game. Director of publishing astatine Larian Studios Michael Douse was connected Twitter/X contiguous shutting down immoderate rumors of a Divinity: Original Sin 3, but his connection was precise specific:

There aren't presently immoderate plans for a caller Divinity Original Sin 3 crippled but erstwhile we are acceptable to amusement what we've been moving connected we volition 🙏

If this is so Divinity, that's bully quality for Larian fans, arsenic Divinity: Original Sin 2 was fantastic. We gave it a 9.6/10, saying, "Divinity: Original Sin 2 whitethorn person been designed successful the tone of decades-old RPGs similar Baldur’s Gate 2, but that bequest serves lone arsenic a instauration for the expansive crippled Larian has built connected apical of it."

Speaking of Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate 3 is Larian's astir caller work, and that got an awesome 10/10 from us. We said, "I don't privation to accidental each CRPG going guardant should aspire to beryllium similar Baldur's Gate 3. Not everything needs to beryllium astir this large and ambitious, oregon adjacent this dense. But it is simply a landmark infinitesimal successful the genre, and if I had to constituent to 1 paragon that I would similar everyone other making these to instrumentality inspiration from, this is perfectly it."

While immoderate whitethorn person clamored for Larian to instantly get to enactment connected DLC oregon Baldur's Gate 4, Larian explicitly said implicit a twelvemonth agone that it wouldn't beryllium continuing with different D&D game. However, Larian CEO Swen Vincke has been teasing a caller task for a portion now, and based connected past timelines, this year's Game Awards would beryllium a cleanable clip for an unveiling.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].