Xbox

The Witcher 2 Dev Diary Might Answer Your Questions About The Xbox Version

In case Kirk Hamilton’s preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here’s CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colourful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game.


January 27, 2012
Xbox

Check Out The Witcher 2′s Kickass New Opening Cinematic

At yesterday’s for the upcoming Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings (my thoughts here), the folks at CD Projekt also showed us a brand-new intro cinematic that they had created for the game.


Xbox

The Witcher 2 On Xbox 360 Is, Thankfully, Still Very Much The Witcher 2

This week, I had a chance to sit down and play through a few hours of the upcoming Xbox 360 version of the 2011 PC-exclusive game The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. The Xbox 360 version will launch on April 17.


January 13, 2012
PC

The Witcher 2 Developer Drops Legal Threats

Kotaku AU

Last month we reported that the publisher of The Witcher 2, CD Projekt, were pursuing legal action against those who had illegally downloaded the game. Today they have confirmed that they will be dropping the legal threats.


December 21, 2011
PC

The Wrong Way To Stop Video Game Piracy

Republished from Rock, Paper Shotgun.


December 16, 2011
News

Witcher Devs Pursuing Alleged Pirates

CD Projekt, the developers of the Witcher series, have been sending letters to alleged German pirates demanding over US$1,000 for having illegally copied the game.


December 8, 2011
News

Namco Bandai Declared The European Distributor Of Xbox Witcher 2

Earlier this year Polish developer CD Projekt Red got into a legal scuffle with Namco Bandai over the distribution rights to the Xbox 360 port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. Now a French court has made it quite clear: THQ is out, and Namco Bandai is in.


August 20, 2011
PC

Free Witcher 2 Patch Adds Horde Mode, Makes Things Darker, Harder

The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Version 2.0 will be a free patch that gives PC gamers a new tutorial system, a survival arena mode, a difficulty-increasing dark mode, oodles of patches and all of the previously released download packs.


August 6, 2011
PC

A Gripping, Lusty Excerpt From My Witcher 2 Novel

You may be aware that CD Projekt’s The Witcher games are based on a series of fantasy novels by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. What you may not know is that I liked the story of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings so much that I have been working on my own novelization of it, tentatively titled The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: The Game: The Novel.


July 11, 2011
In Real Life

Namco Sues Over European Distribution, DRM Removal From Witcher 2

Namco Bandai is suing the parent company of the maker of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, the acclaimed PC role-playing game that will make its way to Xbox 360 later this year, over the rights to distribute that version of the game in Europe.