The Witcher 2

PC Gamer’s Best RPGs of All Time 2016 Edition

People love “best of” lists. Knowing this, PC Gamer has provided a timely update to their best RPGs of all time list. The criteria are nebulous at best, and the genre itself doesn’t do them any favors, but this is…

Richard Cobbett on RPG Artbooks

The latest installment of Richard Cobbett’s RPG-focused weekly column for Rock, Paper, Shotgun is dedicated to artbooks. While by no means comprehensive, Cobbett offers examples of artbooks for RPG series that he has found interesting throughout the years. An excerpt…

CD Projekt RED to Announce New Witcher-Related Title at E3?

I’ll leave the title of this newsbit with a question mark at this point, but I think it’s pretty clear by the picture that GameSpot snapped near the LA Convention Center that CD Projekt RED intends to announce, well, something related…

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…

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…

CD Projekt RED Kraków 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 Kraków (along with some expansion in Warsaw, too), and that means they have a lot of hiring…

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…

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…