The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition is slated for an April 17th release and will include up to 4 hours of extra quests, new locations and characters. This new content will be available free of charge for all PC owners of The Witcher 2 and our reader ‘JnX’ has mailed us some new screenshots from it. These new shots showcase some of the DLC’s new locations, animals and characters. Enjoy! Continue reading The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition – New Screenshots from the game’s DLC portion→
In January, Warner Bros and CD Projekt RED released the epic and impactful CG intro trailer for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition, produced by the award-winning animation studio, Platige Image. Now Platige Image has produced a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the video, from the early renders and motion-capture sessions to the beautifully produced final video. Continue reading The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition – CG Intro Making Of→
CD Projekt RED has revealed that their amazing RPG, The Witcher 2, has sold 1.1 million copies in 2011. From those copies, only 270,000 were sold through digital services. In other words, retail sales were about 70%, proving that retail is not going anywhere and can be really successful. The Witcher 2 is slated for release on X360 and it will be interesting to see how well will it sell in Microsoft’s console. Continue reading The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings hit 1.1 million sold copies in 2011→
After watching this new cinematic of The Witcher 2’s enhanced edition, I can safely say that graphics do matter. Sure, everyone prefers gameplay over graphics but we wouldn’t be using SLI and Crossfire systems if we didn’t want the extra eye-candy, right? And oh boy, I can’t wait till we get this kind of in-game visuals. Perhaps the next generation of consoles will help us achieve something like that? Well, here is hoping that we’ll actually play… someday… games with this kind of graphics. Until then though, enjoy this new cinematic – courtesy of GameTrailers. The Witcher 2: Enhanced Edition will be released on the PC on the 17th of April and if you already own the game, you will receive the upgrade to the Enhanced Edition for free! Continue reading The Witcher 2 – Enhanced Edition Cinematic Intro→
In December, we found out that CD Projekt RED was threating individuals who had downloaded illegally The Witcher 2. Fast forward a month and PC gamers can rejoice as CD Projekt RED has listened to its fanbase and will stop all legal threats about it. Now do not misunderstand this; CD Projekt RED is not supporting piracy. However, they decided to play it fair and square with you as their actions could potentially harm those who purchased the game. This means that it’s your job now to show your gratitude to our dear company. Furthermore, Marcin Iwinski, co-founder of CD Projekt RED sent RPS an open letter, in which he explained the reasons why CD Projekt RED decided to stop those legal threats. Continue reading CD Projekt RED will stop all legal threats after fans backlash→
Great news for all PC witchers out there, as Good Old Games will start its special Christmas Sale Offers on December 8th. And get this right; starting on this Thursday, The Witcher 2 will receive a 40% off discount for 48 hours and it will be bundled with a free copy of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. This basically means that you can get both of these title for the price of £14.99. This special offer will be running from 11.00 GMT on Thursday 8 December until 10.59 GMT on 10 December, and it’s the best bargain that Good Old Games will be going to have on the Witcher series this holiday season. So make sure to mark this date on your calendar guys! Continue reading Good Old Games Christmas Sale Kicks Off On December 8th; Get The Witcher 1&2 for £14.99→
Yesterday, CD Projekt RED held its Investor’s Day 2011 event and revealed that they will be releasing five new games until 2015. Going into more detail, the Witcher developer will release two triple-A games in 2014 and 2015, while a mid-budget and two low-budget titles will be released in 2012-2013. The company will also release the X360 version of The Witcher 2 in Q1 of 2012. Continue reading CD Projekt RED will release five new games until 2015→
Here are some good new for all Witcher fans out there. CD Projekt RED has just announced that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings’ digital sales have exceeded their expectations as the game has sold, in its first quarter, nearly a quarter of a million units. Naturally, the best distribution platform was Valve’s Steam where The Witcher 2 sold 195,000 units, whereas CD Projekt RED’s service, GoG.com, has sold 35,000 copies of DRM-free copies. Continue reading The Witcher 2 – Digital sales exceeded CD Projekt RED’s expectations→
Even though The Witcher 2 has some of the best textures we’ve seen so far, modder TC1984 went ahead and enhanced them by using Gibbed RED Tools, QuickBMS and Photoshop. The end result is even more crisper textures that can really be appreciated when you are pretty close to them. This texture pack is currently at its 1.2 version which among other things, replaces some grass & moss texture files with matched colors. Continue reading The Witcher 2: Assassins Of Kings – High Texture Pack→
With the release of The Witcher 2’s version 2.0 two days away, CD Projekt RED released the official changelog for it. Alongside the new Tutorial mode and the Dark Difficulty, this upcoming patch features over 40 changes, improvements and additions. The combat mechanics have been tweaked and there are some changes that might please all those that criticized The Witcher 2’s fighting system. The Witcher 2 v2.0 is coming to the PC on September 29th and you can view the entire changelog after the jump. Continue reading The Witcher 2 v2.0 Official Changelog Released→
