Piracy hasn't prohibited the series from being a success.
CD Projekt RED sent out a press release announcing that The Witcher franchise has sold over 1.5 million units in 2011. 1.1 million copies of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings were sold, while 400,000 copies of the original game make up the remainder.
King killing console style.
Good news for Xbox 360 console owners out there. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, one of the most acclaimed PC games of 2011, is being made available for the Microsoft console. Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and CD Projekt RED announced that the game will be made available for the Xbox 360 console on April 17th.
Just when you thought awards season was over...
Last month we announced our Game of the Year award winners by genre, platform and overall game of the year, but we weren’t through showcasing the best that 2011 had to offer. With so many games deserving of the moniker Game of the Year we have decided to expand our awards ceremony into 2012 with the 2011 Supplemental Awards. These awards seek to recognize games that excelled in a specific area whether it be through technical achievement, sheer enjoyability or utter disappointment.
CD Projekt RED stops their actions against pirates, but wants gamers to take a stand.
Piracy is the bane of the video game industry. Various companies have tried different ways to combat piracy, from the complex instruction manuals in old PC games to Ubisoft’s controversial DRM that requires their games to be online at all times, regardless of if the game is multiplayer or not. CD Projekt RED, developers of The Witcher series, have taken a firm stand against DRM, but that shouldn’t imply that they turn a blind eye to piracy. That had caused them to try a pretty drastic measure, but today, the company has backed down.
"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he therby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you." - Nietzsche
The Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings is arguably the best role playing game to have come out this year and can easily be ranked as one of the top Western RPGs in the last decade. It is that rare game where you can tell the team over at CD Projekt Red truly loved the source material and put in all the effort they could to convey the story of Geralt of Rivia, as faithfully as possible, to anyone who plays the game.
