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BuckGB
June 1, 2016

CD Projekt RED’s Patrick Mills Talks Quest Design

PCGamesN recently chatted up CD Projekt RED’s Patrick Mills, quizzing the quest designer about the approach they take when constructing the quests in all of their titles, with an unsurprising primary focus on The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its…

BuckGB
May 22, 2016

Sidequests and Other Distractions: The Erosion of Meaning in CRPG Quests

This recent and lengthy editorial points to the way in which quest design and execution have been handled in virtually every CRPG since the 1990s, in particular how dozens of even hundreds of side quests have caused us to neglect…

BuckGB
May 22, 2016

Don’t Expect The Witcher 4 Any Time Soon, or Maybe Ever

The Witcher trilogy will no doubt go down in history as one of the greatest CRPG series to ever grace our computers, so it’s somewhat bittersweet to report on Eurogamer’s news that CD Projekt RED has no intentions to develop…

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May 17, 2016

The Witcher Series GOG Sale

If you were planning to buy anything The Witcher-themed and don’t necessarily mind owning a digital copy, this is probably your lucky day. GOG.com has an ongoing sale for the entire series with discounts ranging from a low 10% off…

BuckGB
May 15, 2016

CD Projekt RED KrakÃ³w Studio Expansion Q&A

To better prepare for Cyberpunk 2077 and likely other as-of-yet unannounced titles staffing-wise, CD Projekt RED plans to significantly expand their studio in KrakÃ³w (along with some expansion in Warsaw, too), and that means they have a lot of hiring…

BuckGB
May 15, 2016

The Rising Maturity of Video Games

Using Mass Effect and The Witcher series as two particular examples, the editors at OnlySP have editorialized about “the rising maturity of video games” and why that’s ultimately a good thing for all of us if the creators handle the…

BuckGB
April 24, 2016

Why is Video Game Lore So Awful?

In a new editorial posted over the weekend, Eurogamer points to the way in which lore is delivered to us in video games, calling out several examples where it falls considerably short of their expectations. Their examples of good and…

BuckGB
March 11, 2016

CD Projekt Developing a New RPG, The Witcher Series Sells 20 Million+ Copies

CD Projekt hosted a financial results webinar earlier today, which was accompanied by a strategy document that outlines their release, marketing, and development plans through 2021. The key takeaways from the document are that The Witcher series has now sold…

BuckGB
February 7, 2016

The Witcher and The Elder Scrolls Series Graphics Evolution Videos

It’s been a number of years since I played the original The Witcher and a far longer period of time since I journeyed through The Elder Scrolls: Arena, so these two four-minute videos taking us through each series’ graphical evolution…

BuckGB
November 6, 2015

The Witcher Movie Moving Forward, Premiere in 2017

An update on the Platige Image website brings word that the feature film based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s The Witcher novels will soon be moving forward with the help of American production company Sean Daniel Company, and that they anticipate releasing the movie…