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Sam Barlow’s Her Story claims most awards, with Life is Strange, Ori and the Blind Forest and Crypt of the NecroDancer also praised
Read More »CD Projekt revenue grows by eight times in 2015
Polish studio aiming for “two-fold” expansion of dev team, with four new teams
Read More »Chinese Room, Sam Barlow and CD Projekt Red lead 2016 BAFTA nominees
Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture racks up 10 awards nods, with Her Story and The Witcher III claiming seven each
Read More »Producer of the Month: CD Projekt Red’s John Mamais
The Witcher III notched up 6m sales in just six weeks following its launch earlier this year. We speak to the game’s Senior Executive Producer John Mamais
Read More »‘The Witcher 3 proves players want longer games’
CD Project’s Jose Teixeira says multiplayer and microtransactions are not essential when satisfying gamers
Read More »‘We’re ready to move on’: CD Projekt Red on The Witcher, Hearts of Stone and Cyberpunk 2077
In 1986, Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski entered a short story titled Wiedzmin (‘The Witcher’) into a competition in the local magazine Fantastyka. It won third place. 29 years later, on May 19th 2015, the third in The Witcher series of video games was released. It sold six million copies in …
Read More »CD Projekt spent £53m developing The Witcher 3
1,500 devs involved in the 3.5-year development process
Read More »The Witcher 3 cost £53,000,000 to make
Developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed the investment needed to create RPG hit The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. GameSpot reports that a recently translated financial briefing pegged the cost of development at 306million z?oty – that’s around 53m/$81m. A total of 240 in-house developers spent 3.5 years making the title, …
Read More »Bandai Namco’s bonanza year
Think of Bandai Namco a few years back, and it’s likely that Pac-Man and Dragon Ball Z would come to mind. In 2015, however, it’s titles like The Witcher and Project CARS that have helped to redefine the publisher. The firm had its first monthly UK publisher No.1 in May …
Read More »CD Projekt Red boss wants free DLC to be the standard
The 16th and final free piece of DLC for The Witcher 3 is now available, and developer CD Projekt would like to see other studios follow its lead. Since the game’s release in May, CD Projekt has released an assortment of updates and content for the game including armour sets, …
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