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Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Val Hull
February 27, 2018

Good Side Quest Design – Rules and Examples

Side quests are a pretty important part of roleplaying games. Depending on how well they’re designed, side quests can make any game memorable or boring. But how does one create the former and not the latter? Gamasutra reached out to…

Val Hull
February 4, 2018

The Best Low-stakes RPG Quests

RPGs are not always about saving the world or making tough decisions with long-reaching implications. Sometimes they’re simply about getting blackout drunk and then dealing with the consequences, or helping a tree get its revenge on a long-dead lumberjack. And…

Val Hull
February 3, 2018

The History of RPG Magic

Magic, in one way or another, is a staple of most RPGs and as a result it can be all too easy to forget that magic is not just an alternative to bows when it comes to dealing ranged damage,…

BuckGB
January 11, 2018

The Witcher 3 Outgrossed Some of 2017’s Biggest Games

That title is followed up by a provocative and highly accurate “because it’s just that good” in this new editorial on PC Gamer, where they go on to praise CD Projekt’s RED’s CRPG for “outselling almost everything else on Steam”…

BuckGB
January 7, 2018

GB Feature: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Content Overload

Standing as one of the largest role-playing games we’ve ever covered here on GameBanshee, our new The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt subsite is jam-packed with fully annotated walkthroughs for the original game, the Hearts of Stone expansion, and the Blood…

BuckGB
December 21, 2017

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Graphically Enhanced on Xbox One X, PS4 Pro Soon

CD Projekt RED doled out a press release today announcing that they’ve released a patch for the Xbox One X version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt to add some graphical enhancements, including the introduction of both a “4K Mode”…

Val Hull
November 16, 2017

The Best RPGs on PC – PCGamesN

Flexing their list-making muscles prior to the inevitable game of the year season, the folks over at PCGamesN have put together a list of what they think are the 15 best RPGs on PC. And while I can’t really agree…

Val Hull
November 10, 2017

CD Projekt RED Will “Probably” Return to The Witcher

Adam Kiciński, CD Projekt’s CEO, had recently spoken to Strefa Inwestorow about the future of The Witcher franchise and thanks to the Polish hand of IGN, we know what was said there. It’s not much, mind you, but we can…

Val Hull
October 31, 2017

Tracing the Fairy Tales and Myths Behind The Witcher 3’s Unsettling Crones

As a follow-up to their 10th anniversary celebrations of The Witcher, the folks at PCGamesN bring us another article focused on CD Projekt’s hit RPG series. This particular one explores the folk tales, myths, and historical inspirations for The Witcher’s memorable…

Val Hull
October 28, 2017

The Witcher 10th Anniversary at PCGamesN

A decade ago CD Projekt RED, then a small and lesser known Polish studio, released The Witcher, an action-RPG about a white-haired monster hunter that was based on a series of books by Andrzej Sapkowski. Back then, few could predict…