High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Baldur`s Gate: Dark Alliance is an action role-playing game released for the PlayStation 2 on December 2, 2001 (US), the Xbox on October 22, 2002 (US), the GameCube on November 18, 2002 (US) and the Game Boy Advance on February 10, 2004 (US). It was developed by Snowblind Studios and published by Interplay Entertainment. The gameplay is based on the 3rd Edition Dungeons & Dragons, and is set in the Forgotten Realms fantasy setting.