Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

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…

CD Projekt Group 2016 Financial Results Conference

Adam Kiciński, the co-CEO of CD Projekt Group, the conglomerate behind GOG and The Witcher games, held a conference describing the Group’s financial results in 2016. The presentation goes over the long-term sales of The Witcher series, GOG’s Galaxy client,…

Brian Fargo Interview

A short interview with InXile’s Brian Fargo has surfaced on The Gaming Ground. In it, the veteran developer talks about old school RPGs, working on games post-release, his future aspirations, and more. Here’s an excerpt: Jack TGG How does it…

The Witcher 4 Rumors

The Witcher 4 is definitely happening, my uncle who works for Nintendo told me so. This is the gist of what we’ve been hearing through the grapevine over the last few days. This short quote from CD Projekt Red’s CEO,…

Marcin Iwiński Interview

Marcin Iwiński, the co-founder of CD Projekt RED, has recently taken a trip down memory lane in an extensive interview with Glixel. His company – which is now worth more than a billion dollars – started as just two friends…

Great Ideas More RPGs Should Steal

The latest of Richard Cobbett’s RPG Scrollbars features revolves around all the underutilized ideas in RPGs. This particular column doesn’t talk about general things that are often overlooked, like good inventory screens and whatnot, instead it tries to remember the…