- Thank you for celebrating 20 years of CD PROJEKT RED - 23 September 2022
It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since CD PROJEKT RED was founded. The last two decades have been filled with many adventures, and we’re so proud to have created video games that players all around the world have enjoyed — not to mention having such a strong, supportive community that has been with us at every step! We've invited several REDs — from battle-scarred veterans to fresh-faced newcomers — and asked them some questions. This is the result: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GceQyxIssE8 Thank you for sharing the road with us!
- 20 years of CDPR: Anniversary Streams — Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - 18 August 2022
Did you miss yesterday's stream? No worries, Gascon said he can retrieve it! You can find the recap on 20yearsof.cdprojektred.com/streams or on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBRii4ohHFM
- 20 years of CD PROJEKT RED: The Sale - 8 August 2022
As we celebrate our 20th anniversary, we’re holding a sale that spans centuries! From the medieval fantasy of The Witcher series to the cyberware-obsessed future of Cyberpunk 2077, you can now claim every game from the entire CD PROJEKT RED catalog at a discount. Don’t wait too long to start your adventure — our Anniversary Sale will run for one week, ending on August 14th! https://store.steampowered.com/publisher/CDPR/sale/cdpr20thanniversary Choices, choices... If you're having a hard time selecting a CD PROJEKT RED game, try out our masterfully calibrated, 100% accurate anniversary quiz at 20yearsof.cdprojektred.com/sale to discover the perfect option for you. Answer a series of questions and let us do the rest!
- 20 years of CD PROJEKT RED! - 1 July 2022
Time flies... It's hard to believe that 20 years have passed since CD PROJEKT RED was founded. The last two decades have been filled with adventure, and we’re so proud to have created video games that players all around the world have enjoyed — not to mention having such a strong, supportive community that has been with us at every step! Although our studio was established in February 2002, we’ve chosen to celebrate the anniversary today, July 1st, because on this exact date 20 years ago CD PROJEKT (at that time known as CD Projekt) announced its shift in focus to game development. It’s a special date that marks the beginning of our studio as we know it today. It’s where our journey into making RPGs began, and we think that’s definitely worth putting in the spotlight! But today is not the only day we’re going to celebrate this occasion. It’s 20 years, after all! We’ve got a bunch of act…
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales — Verified on Steam Deck - 28 April 2022
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales has been Verified for Steam Deck Compatibility! This means that Steam Deck users will be able to enjoy Queen Meve’s story to its fullest. If you already have a copy of the game in your Steam Library then it’s ready to run on your new hardware. And if you don’t, you’re in for a treat — until May 2nd Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is discounted by 70%! https://store.steampowered.com/app/973760/Thronebreaker_The_Witcher_Tales/
- Geralt of Rivia: A disabled protagonist - 28 November 2020
" caught sight of Regis looking at him intently. 'Is that a fresh injury?' "'Not really. But it's tormenting me. Do you have any herbs capable of soothing the pain?'" - Baptism of Fire by A. Sapkowski, pp.128 Read more
- GWENT is now available on Steam! - 19 May 2020
We’re excited to announce the Steam release of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game! Following the successful launches of GWENT on iOS and Android, release on Steam is the next step in CD PROJEKT RED’s strategy to bring the game to millions of players worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4fr1IgP3dU The Steam release features full cross-play and synchronization functionality with other versions of the game, meaning you can compete with players on iOS, Android, and GOG, as well as carry over all items and progress between these platforms. In addition, the release also includes Steam achievements and Steam Trading Cards integration - details can be found here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1284410/ Additionally, thanks to an update to Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales on Steam, from today, you can now earn rewards to use in GWENT by making progress in the Thronebreaker campaign. These r…
- The Witcher games are going cheap in the anniversary sales - 19 May 2020
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is five years old today! Can you believe it? We’re celebrating it with The Witcher 3 Anniversary tag today. Happy birthday Geralt, you big hairy baby! If a Netflix show and years of people going on about it have finally convinced you to consider giving The Witcher a go, good news: to celebrate the fifth birthday of The Witcher 3, the whole series is on sale. Both Steam and GOG have big Witcher sales, including the whole RPG series plus various spin-offs. £10 for The Witcher 3 and both expansions is a good price for so many grimaces and weary sighs, every one of them great. (more…)
- Clash of Fans: Spintires and Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - 18 May 2020
Hello and welcome to the first of our Clash of Fans write-ups . This week we'll be getting together in pairs (virtually) and forcing each other to play a beloved game. Then we'll chat about what we made of it all. First up is Spintires and Thronebreaker! Chris: I have sort of fallen off of collectible card games over the last few years, and in the back of my mind I think they've all become variations on Hearthstone. This is wrong, obviously, but it's taken Thronebreaker to remind me of that. For the first ten minutes I was filtering everything through the question of - how does Hearthstone handle this? But very quickly that ceases to be meaningful. A few initial observations - there is so much here beyond the cards. The overworld map, the resources and all that jazz, the camps. And the writing. God, so much storytelling all over the place. I am a story-skipper by nature, and you can jus…
- GOG's Spring sale is now on, with lots of free Witcher goodies - 17 March 2020
GOG’s Spring sale begins today, and there are lots of free Witcher goodies up for grabs to kick things off. Alas, The Witcher games themselves aren’t free as part of the goodie pack (although they’re all heavily discounted as part of GOG’s Witcher Universe Collection bundle), but it does include lots of Witcher soundtracks, comics, art, wallpapers and a video of some Witcher music being played at The Video Game Show concert. You’ll need to get ’em quick, though, as the goodies pack is only available until 2pm UTC tomorrow (March 18th). Read on below for some more highlights. (more…)
- Autumn Sale - 26 November 2019
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- Get up to 90% off in GOG's Back to School sale - 3 September 2019
Stationary, uniforms, maybe a new laptop - that's what we'd usually expect to see in a Back to School sale. Not for GOG, though. Instead, the cheeky focus is on parents who now have some extra time on their hands to game again. And there are some serious timesinks available for cheap in the GOG Back to School sale . Massive RPGs, engrossing sims and gripping stories are all well represented, with savings of up to 90 per cent up for grabs. Of course, as we're dealing with CD Projekt here, you can find the entire Witcher series on sale. If you're still yet to play the latest entry, you can get The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Game of the Year Edition for 10.49 . This complete version of the game comes with all previously released DLC. That's both the Hearts of Stone and the Blood and Wine expansions, as well as over a dozen smaller content packs. Read more
- Henry Cavill flaunts his Witcher's bottom, and other photos from Netflix's new show - 2 July 2019
What fine rump Henry Cavill has - a super bottom, you could say - so why not slap it on the poster for Netflix's new Witcher TV show? Exactly. Which is why Cavill, turned away from camera, decked out in full Witcher garb, is the lead image for the show. And it's a clever shot, because bum aside, it's how you see Geralt (the character Cavill is playing) for hours and hours when you play The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt video game. It's familiar. It's saying, "This is the character you know." Oh, and his carrying only one sword in place of the two you're used to seeing him with in the games? As people have pointed out in the comments below: Geralt carries one sword in the books, leaving the other with his horse Roach for when he needs it. And the show, remember, is based on the books, not the games. Read more
- Netflix says its Witcher television series will be out at the end of this year - 17 April 2019
Netflix has confirmed that its Witcher television adaptation will air toward the end of this year, putting it a little ahead of its originally anticipated 2020 release date. The news comes via a Netflix investor call, as reported by Deadline , in which chief content officer Ted Sarandso revealed that the fantasy drama would arrive in Q4, narrowing its launch down to some time in the last three months of 2019. Netflix's series, if you're unfamiliar, is explicitly based on Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski's Witcher novels, rather than CD Projeckt's video game adaptation, with Sapkowski serving as creative consultant . Showrunning and writing duties are being handled by Lauren Hissrich. Read more
- Gwent expands into the gothic and gory on March 28th - 4 March 2019
Vampires, werewolves, blood moons and all other things best suited to a Belmont than a Witcher will be the first focus of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game ‘s first card expansion. Despite other online CCGs making expansions an annual or seasonal thing, Crimson Curse is set to be Gwent’s first. While I feel that CD Projekt Red’s card-slinger never drew the crowds the way Hearthstone or Magic: The Gathering has (its solo expansion, Thronebreaker became its own standalone game), it’s nice to see that the studio haven’t thrown in the towel. See a portentous little teaser trailer below. (more…)
- Thronebreaker Update 1.1 – Patch Notes - 18 February 2019
New patch for Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales is now available for Steam! With this update, we’ve focused on improving the overall stability, performance and visuals of the game, as well as adding support for Traditional Chinese. The full list of these changes can be found below. https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33907627%2Fae3b7041d6396f931aaf16f056cef87af20c7a07.png FULL LIST OF CHANGES New Features An animation setting for premium cards is now available in the main menu. For new players, "Always Animate" will be the default setting. Added support for Traditional Chinese. New controls have been added for gamepads: LB, RB / L1, R1: Jump to the leftmost or rightmost side of a row. LT / L2: Switch between opponent and player graveyards. X / Square: Select your Leader. Game Fixes Overall game performance has been improved. Overall game stability has been im…
- Troubling GOG tweets, a fired CD Projekt employee, and the spectre of GamerGate - 6 December 2018
UPDATE 8th December 2018: Following the publication of this article, Sean Halliday was revealed to have ties to a website called Exclusively Games, owned by someone with links to GamerGate. Halliday told Eurogamer he had been offered a job by Exclusively Games and had been flagged as a moderator while considering the position. But, he told Eurogamer today, he has since declined the offer of a job. ORIGINAL STORY 6th December: On 22nd October, Polish game seller GOG - a part of CD Projekt - found itself in trouble again on Twitter . It had insensitively appropriated the trans civil rights hashtag WontBeErased. "Classic PC games #WontBeErased on our watch," it tweeted. "Yeah, how's that for some use of hashtags?" GOG quickly deleted the tweet but not before the internet noticed, and a stink was kicked up. Not only was it a problem on its own, but it was the third problematic tweet in a ha…
- Patch 1.01 - Changelog - 4 December 2018
Patch 1.01 is now available on Steam! Check the list below to see what changed! https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F33907627%2Fae3b7041d6396f931aaf16f056cef87af20c7a07.png FULL LIST OF CHANGES General: The “Battle-Hardened” and “Bonebreaker” difficulty settings now scale your opponents’ power and armor values depending on the map. Game fixes: Fixed an issue whereby left-hand side icons would sometimes disappear after exiting the camp. Fixed an issue whereby the Grey Rider would not count all of the Golden Chests discovered during the playthrough. Fixed an issue whereby the Strays of Spalla’s ability was not enhanced for a row affected with Fire +. Fixed an issue whereby the game would crash during the Battle for the Bridge in certain circumstances. Fixed an issue whereby the stealth puzzle “Mahakaman Archives” could be completed without meeting the puzzle’s…
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales hasn't done as well as CD Projekt hoped - 15 November 2018
Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, which we've reviewed and Recommended , hasn't sold as strongly as CD Projekt Red hoped. Here's the admission by joint-CEO Adam Kiciński in a CDP financial call yesterday: "The game appealed to the community, which drove up our expectations regarding sales. Unfortunately, as yet, these expectations have not been fulfilled. Still, we remain optimistic ... We expect to continue to sell Thronebreaker for many years to come, even though the initial period may not have lived up to our initial expectations." "The reach of GOG is incomparably smaller than that of Steam" -Adam Kiciński Read more…
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales now on Steam too - 12 November 2018
If you fancied the idea of Gwenting through a singleplayer RPG in Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales but for whatever reason didn’t buy it from GOG, voila: the card game is now on Steam too. After debuting on GOG on October 23rd, it hit Steam on Friday, 17 days later. “I’ve seen headlines spinning Thronebreaker as an RPG in its own right, and I could even understand if it was compared to a visual novel at times. But really, it’s a card game with walky bits. And that’s perfectly fine,” our Brendan said in his Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales review . “Because it’s a good card game, with good-looking walky bits. Just don’t go in expecting The Witcher 3.5.” (more…)
