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A Look at The Witcher: Enhanced Edition


In this video we take a look at Atari's Enhanced Edition of The Witcher. I guess the game was one of those things that just passed me by. However, if you weren't able to pick up the original, the Enhanced Edition will basically be a remastered version. It will include a new D'jinni Adventure Editor, soundtrack CD, and making of documentary . However, the best part is that the game will be a free download for registered owners of the original Witcher. Expect it in stores on September 16th.

8:40 PM on Mon Aug 18 2008
By Adam Barenblat
7,319 views, 60 comments

Latest by Karlott: I got this for Christmas last year. Fantastic game, the "morality" choices are done better here than in anything else. more »

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Atari: Witchers, RPGs, Cooks, and ... Deer Hunters

3:55 PM, the LA Convention Center. Everyone is tired, and you can see the media room starting to slow down — people wander by with exhausted expressions on their faces, looking at their watches and lighting up when they realize there's not much left in the day. Even Crecente has passed the point of being totally with it, pausing in the middle of sentences to stare off into space. I shuffle off to check out Atari's E3 offerings, and am met with a surprisingly cheerful staff who point me in the direction of caffeine. I am not caffeinated enough to face a spiel on Deer Hunter Tournament, so I'm sat down to await a demonstration of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition. I hear something about transport options from the person enthusiastically imbibing what the Deer Hunter guy is saying — 'Oh cool, so you're planning on having like, ATVs and stuff?' — and am glad I'm parked in front of The Witcher instead of one screen over. More impressions and details after the jump: More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jul 17 2008
By Maggie Greene
5,658 views, 29 comments

Latest by Shinryoma: I will buy The Witcher: EE when it comes out. more »

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The Witcher: DuelMail Becomes The Witcher: Versus

Remember The Witcher: DuelMail, the free-to-play browser fighting game based on the hit PC RPG that ate up a whole lot of productivity when it went into open beta back in March? Well the beta is over, and the game has a new, more sensible name - The Witcher: Versus. More than 48,000 people participated in the beta, offering feedback that brought about changes in the release version of the game. Updated features include multi-channel chat, a new player tutorial, enhanced graphics, and a more demanding character development system so you can fully customize your character's skills.

I'm assuming they also fixed whatever it was that was letting me kick so much ass in the beta version, as evidenced by the frustrated comments in the original post. Only one way to be sure though...head over to The Witcher: Versus and challenge the powerful sorceress Kotaku to a duel. Muhahahaha.

The Witcher: Versus [CD Projekt Red]

9:20 AM on Wed Jul 9 2008
By Mike Fahey
1,652 views, 19 comments

Latest by kwant: just wanted to add, if you get the Witcher and give it a shot, it really takes a little bit more »

Release Dates

The Witcher Enhanced Edition Dated

As fans probably noticed, the ultimate version of CD Projekt Red's PC RPG didn't quite make it's original May release window. The developers needed more time to make this version of the game as complete and as bug free as possible while making sure each different language version of the game featured the same high level of polish as the Polish. According to a news post on the official website for The Witcher, the The Witcher Enhanced Edition is now slated for a worldwide release this September. I'd say it's definitely worth the wait, but by now I've proven myself one of the game's biggest fanboys and it wouldn't hold all that much weight anyway.

The Witcher Enhanced Edition Release Date [Official Website]

12:00 PM on Fri Jun 20 2008
By Mike Fahey
7,642 views, 39 comments

Latest by EverettStork: Is that the MOST you can say for the .. flat-out BEST RPG I've ever played?! ;) Most innovative, more »

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Gaming PR In The Age Of Blogs

Last week, Gamasutra ran an interview with Tom Ohle, vice president of PR & marketing for CD Projekt, creators of The Witcher. They obviously get to talking about games PR, and in particular some of the challenges facing a public relations team when deciding how to market a game. While I don't agree with many of their points (Ohle's or that of the interviewer), especially that "major blogs just don't really cover" the PC that much (we try to give it it's due whenever & wherever possible), it's still an interesting read, if only for Ohle's idea that even a site with just one reader's worth taking care of, because that's still one potential customer.
Q&A: CD Projekt's Ohle On The Witcher, PR's Place In The Blogosphere [Gamasutra]

3:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Luke Plunkett
896 views, 27 comments

Latest by Slatz_Grobnik: I think there are two flaws to the 'one of seven' logic. The big flaw is that Kotaku does look more »

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New Adventures Await The Witcher

Fans of CD Projekt Red's PC RPG The Witcher are going to have their hands full this week, as a major patch, the Djinni Adventure Editor, and the first official new adventure hit all at once. Patch 1.3 polishes the living hell out of the game, adding more lines of dialogue, NPC models, and character animations. The Djinni beta adventure editor allows players to create their own adventure modules for the game and share them with the world via the Witcher website.
"CD Projekt has always been oriented to gamers' needs, so releasing an adventure editor for the modding community is an obvious move. It's quite a demanding tool, however, and it will bring loads of satisfaction to many of the fans. After all, we made The Witcher with this tool," said Adam Kiciński, CEO, CD Projekt RED.
Finally you have The Price of Neutrality, the first official add-on adventure for the game, in which we learn more about the other witchers from the beginning of the main game. That's a ton of new stuff, and here I am far too busy this week to even contemplate downloading it. *weeps* More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Mike Fahey
4,466 views, 45 comments

Latest by mcderek3000: @CrimsonAngel: Now I'm buying. more »

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Staying Out of The Porn Game Ghetto

PC game The Witcher is kinda saucy! It's not a sex game, but a monster-slashing game — a monster-slashing game that allows players to have sex with hookers. Hello in-game nudity! According to Michal Kicinski, CEO of The Witcher developer CD Projekt:

In Europe we are quite used to see many forms of sexual expression in fine art, books, films and even on television. The games are not seen much differently then. In order to see sexual references or various forms of sexual acts (although softer ones) we never had to cross over into pay-per-view TV or head off to the seedy part of town.
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1:00 AM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Brian Ashcraft
19,876 views, 51 comments

Latest by freespeech: definitely a double standard but there is one store here in the states (in illinois specifically) that carries porn. more »

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The Witcher Gets Enhanced

The best PC RPG of 2007 is about to get better. CD Projekt Red has announced The Witcher Enhanced Edition, an update of the game due out this May that seeks to completely quash any qualms players may have had with the original title - in essence, they listened to our bitching and fixed stuff. Small tweaks like shortening load times and increasing combat accuracy are just the beginning. The English language version of the game has been completely reworked to include text left out of the initial release, while the German version is getting redone voice overs. CD Projekt is adding over 50 new supporting character models to further immersion, with 100 new animated gestures added to make conversation flow more naturally. They've even redone the lip-sync system to make conversing more animated and lifelike. Along with all of the changes, the enhanced version will ship complete with the D'jinni mod editor, allowing you to create and share your own modules in the game, as well as two all new adventures from the dev team. Of course all of the new content will be available for purchasers of the original game in free downloadable form, but if you've not yet experienced The Witcher, May looks like an excellent time to give it a go. More »

11:20 AM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Mike Fahey
11,721 views, 122 comments

Latest by Karlott: @Witzbold: I have played many. Finished? Not so much, because aside from a few of the 16-bit gems (the Koei more »

predictions

Forbes Predicts Future Classics

The financial minds at Forbes have taken off their big business hats for a moment to focus on a more pressing topic: classic video games. Which of today's titles will become immortalized in our hearts, marble statue-ized into our next Super Mario Bros 3s that we can't put down a decade later? Well, they've compiled a list of their top ten and it's...actually not that bad. And of course, Mario has made an appearance. More »

12:00 PM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Mark Wilson
14,760 views, 143 comments

Latest by SuperMaxZero: WTF? Game X from that list is horrible. Also, you are wrong for liking it, and also I am always more »

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Zero Punctuation Experiments with Machinima... Badly

While I love Croshaw's latest review, this one of The Witcher, I wasn't so delighted with the bit of comedy machinima slapped on to the end. It was, I hope, just an experiment and one we won't see more of anytime soon. Fortunately The Review of The Witcher has a wonderful punchline and mentions washing gimps, so I'll forgive him his indulgence.

Zero Punctuation: The Witcher [The Escapist Magazine]

2:00 PM on Wed Jan 23 2008
By Brian Crecente
14,641 views, 190 comments

Latest by --Core--: "Okay, now I just have to figure out if that was a man or woman" That cracked me up.. but more »