Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Importance of Crafting Interesting NPCs

Using character examples from a variety of RPG series, including Fallout, Dragon Age, The Witcher, and The Elder Scrolls, one of GameInformer’s editors has authored a new “RPG Grind Time” feature about “the importance of crafting interesting NPCs”. The article…

CD PROJEKT Capital Group Financial Results for Q1 2017

CD PROJEKT Capital Group published their financial results for the first quarter of 2017. Despite not releasing any new games, the Group generated 14% more revenue compared to the previous year. In short, The Witcher 3 and its expansions continue…

The Witcher Saga is Coming to Netflix

Platige Image, the studio responsible for the amazing cinematic trailers we’ve seen for CD Projekt’s The Witcher CRPG series, has announced a partnership with Netflix to bring Andrzej Sapkowski’s original novels to life on the popular digital video platform. Given…

Does Your Video Game Have Too Many Words?

On his personal blog, Jeff Vogel of Spiderweb Software says what we’ve all probably been thinking. That is – video games are becoming too verbose for their own good. He lists examples and observations, as well as his own personal…

IGN’s Top 100 RPGs of All Time, Part 5

The final 20 titles that IGN considers to be the best of the best when it comes to RPGs have been unveiled. By now, their editors’ fondness for Japanese games should be quite apparent, so the top picks aren’t that…

The Titles That Inspired The Witcher Developers

Long before they raised millions of eyebrows with The Witcher series, the team at CD Projekt RED was busy playing other studios’ role-playing games, and clearly some of them left lasting (inspirational) impressions. And we hear about some of those…

The Best Characters in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

The Witcher games are now firmly among the staples of the RPG genre. As such, the characters that have transcended their literary representations are worthy of a closer look. PC Gamer obliges, providing their take on who the best characters…

Richard Cobbett on World Quests

The latest of Richard Cobbett’s RPG Scrollbars columns takes a detailed look at World Quests. What’s a World Quest, you ask? Read this excerpt and find out: World quests come in many different forms, but typically ‘icons on a map’.…

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a Cultural Phenomenon

An editorial on Glixel talks about the significance of the fifth installment in The Elder Scrolls series – Skyrim. It tries to answer the question why exactly when talking about open world RPGs we can’t help but refer to them…

CD Projekt 2016 Financial Results Summary

In case you were curious about the financial state of CD Projekt Group, this article on their official website provides a quick summary of 2016’s financial results. The biggest standout there is that The Witcher series have sold over 25,000,000…