CD Projekt’s co-CEO says The Witcher 2’s momentous midgame choice was an ‘experiment’ and now regards it as a ‘waste of resources’

While it has long been overshadowed by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt‘s gargantuan success, The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings remains a great RPG in its own right. In fact, in some ways it was more daring and ambitious than its bigger, beardier brother. Most notably, none of the decisions you make in the Witcher…

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Hideo Kojima outdoes himself once again with an IRL Death Stranding exoskeleton that claims to make your steps 50% more powerful and costs thousands of dollars

Finding hills a bit tougher in middle age? No longer bounding up those mountains like you used to? Well folks, Hideo Kojima has done it again! The latest collaboration from Kojima Productions is, unsurprisingly, a world first: a freaking exoskeleton modelled after Sam Porter Bridges’ Death Stranding 2: On the Beach outfit. Exoskeleton maker Dnsys…

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CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was ‘pretty standard’ and they didn’t believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world

It’s hard to imagine anyone not having faith in The Witcher 3, an RPG that has dominated the genre for the last decade. But that was the situation CD Projekt found itself in when it was trying to sell the idea to prospective partners during development. Despite finding success with the original Witcher and its…

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CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone’s life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations

One of my fondest memories of playing The Witcher 3 was when I came home slightly inebriated with a friend and I thought it would be fun to try playing the game with each of us managing one half of the controls. Within five minutes, I died by stumbling off a bridge that was barely…

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“A Very Emotional Project” – Fang The Sniper Creator Reunites With Sega To Create New Sonic The Hedgehog Merch

Releasing this Winter in Japan. Shinichi “Touma” Higashi, the former Sega artist perhaps best known for creating the character Fang the Sniper in the Game Gear title Sonic the Hedgehog: Triple Trouble, has teamed up with Sega to create a bunch of new vinyl figures based on Sonic and friends. Higashi, in case you’re unfamiliar…

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