The creator and author of the Witcher books has admitted that he turned down the chance to claim a share of the successful RPG series’ revenues. "I was stupid enough to sell them rights to the whole bunch," Andrzej Sapkowski told Eurogamer of his original deal with Witcher developer CD …
Read More »CD Projekt Red: Cyberpunk 2077 dev team bigger than that for Witcher 3
Studio previously announced that it would ‘drastically’ overhaul its development tools for sci-fi title ‘far, far bigger’ than fantasy RPG
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'We want to catch up with booming gaming markets in [the US] or Canada'
Read More »The Witcher 3 quest designers talk balancing story with gameplay and declaring war on ‘fetch quests’
‘Some characters are so important that they need whole stories to be told about them, otherwise it’s better to remove them completely’
Read More »‘To make games the most powerful artform, don’t freak out about dick jokes’
Indie dev Robert Yang critiques apparent fear of games to address sexual topics
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Polish studio aiming for “two-fold” expansion of dev team, with four new teams
Read More »Assassin’s Creed, Tomb Raider and The Witcher in running for Writers Guild Award
Pillars of Eternity completes 2016 nominees for outstanding writing in a video game
Read More »There’s (another) Witcher movie on the way
The producer of The Mummy film franchise has announced a cinematic adaptation of The Witcher. Yes, before pedantic readers point out, there has already been a movie made about the exploits of monster-murderer and serial womaniser Geralt of Rivia. However, that 2001 Polish-language take on Andrzej Sapkowski’s original set of …
Read More »CD Projekt Red: ‘Cyberpunk 2077 is far, far bigger than The Witcher 3’
Cyberpunk 2077, the next game from The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red, is the biggest title the studio has ever made. The sci-fi-flavoured RPGwas originally announced back in 2012, but the Polish outlet has remained quiet on specificities of the project since. Now it has been revealed that the title …
Read More »Ex-Witcher 3 developers open new UK studio Wickerman Games
Two developers who count EA, Starbreeze Studios, Codemasters, The Chinese Room and CD Projekt Red among their collective experience have formed a brand new outlet. Wickerman Games is a UK-based firm helmed by Chris Hardwick and Dan Cordell, who met at The Witcher 3 studio CD Projekt Red. (Well spotted,VG247.) …
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