The Witcher

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Now Available on GOG

As promised, CD Projekt has released The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director’s Cut on Good Old Games, and for a limited time you can pick it up for the ridiculously low price of $4.99. It will be going up to $9.99…

Choices & Consequences in The Witcher

With The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings right around the corner, Rock, Paper, Shotgun looks back at the original Witcher and how it dealt with the mechanics of choice and consequence. And it’s personal not only because of the things you’ve…

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Video Review

With The Witcher 2 on the horizon, Zeitgeist Game Review brings us a nearly eight-minute retrospective video review of CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. To make the review even more relevant, they also cover some of the changes…

The Case of the Great Game Nobody Saw

We normally think of Evolve PR’s Tom Ohle as the man in charge of promoting The Witcher franchise or, if you’ve been following the industry for awhile, BioWare’s earlier titles, but today he’s the guy behind a thought-provoking article that…

The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and Sacred 2 for $9.99

I’m not sure if it’s part of their usual weekend deal, but Valve has slashed the price of both The Witcher: Enhanced Edition and Sacred 2: Fallen Angel by 50% to $9.99 each. Neverwinter Nights 2 Platinum is still $9.99,…

The Witcher Retrospective

Eurogamer offers a retrospective on CD Projekt RED’s the Witcher cRPG, discussing the amnesiac mechanic, Geralt as a PC and the stories within stories and moral greyness of the game. The decision that stuck with me most came on my first…

How Morality in Games Messes With My Karma

A new entry to Simon’s Blog of Hypothetical Wonderment attempts to explain why the author possesses an “irrational fear of moral decisions in video games.” Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3, and The Witcher are all referenced as examples: Fallout 3,…

The Witcher Writing Interviews

Interestingly enough, there are two recent interviews with Sande Chen, who you might recall was nominated for a Videogame Writing Award back in 2008 for the work she did on CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher. The Q&As cover a variety…

Steam Holiday Sale, Day Seven

The seventh day of the Steam sale offers second chances on the top-selling deals the service has offered the past week. A few RPGs cycled back in, so this is the last chance to nab Mass Effect/Mass Effect 2/Mass Effect…