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CD Projekt Red had to announce that the release of D'Jinni and the 1.3 Patch had to be delayed. They hope to have it released very soon!
Despite our efforts, we regret to inform, that release of the D'jinni Adventure Editor and patch 1.3, which was bound for the last week of March, due to localisation issues had to be rescheduled. D'jinni, new adventure and patch 1.3 will be released at the same time, in a few days. We are sorry for this inconvenience.
WARSAW, March 31 2008 - CD Projekt RED is very pleased to announce the launch of The Witcher: DuelMail closed beta, based on the company's best-selling PC role-playing game, The Witcher. The Witcher: DuelMail is a completely free-of-charge next-gen web-browser game that offers depth seldom found in similar products. The start of open beta is planned for April 7th, with the final version scheduled for release on May 9th.
We have launched the newest in our Vault sites - this time the very exciting title coming on May from Funcom - Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. Age of Conan Vault is your one-stop shop for all your Age of Conan needs. We have launched with some truly amazing content, including an interview with Jason Stone, a hilarious top 10, some gorgeous screenshots taken by our staff in beta (approved by Funcom of course!), the first 2 beta journals written by our very own -Pagan- and more!
We hope you enjoy our site and will make our forums your home for chatting about this very exciting title.
The Witcher Vault was lucky enough to sit down with the Mateusz Kanik, a designer and D'Jinni Team Lead at CD Projekt Red. He was nice enough to answer some of our questions about the soon to be released toolkit. Mateusz gave us some great information about what to expect and some things to look forward to.
You can read our entire exclusive interview here. Take a few minutes and find out what Mateusz had to tell us about D'Jinni!
WARSAW, MARCH, 2008 � CD Projekt RED today announced the appointment of Tom Ohle to the position of Vice President of PR and Marketing, North America & UK. The hiring is part of CD Projekt RED's plan to expand its reach and influence in North America and the United Kingdom as the company continues to grow following the success of its debut title, the PC role-playing game, The Witcher.
Tom most recently served as Director of his public relations studio, Evolve PR, and he has managed and executed PR and community campaigns for such leading companies as 2K Games, Atari, BioWare, Microsoft Game Studios, NVIDIA and Stardock.
CD Projekt RED's debut game, The Witcher, is a worldwide hit. After several years of development and a record budget for a Polish media product, The Witcher launched to much critical and commercial success. To date, the game has earned more than 45 awards, including prestigious honors like Best PC RPG of the Year at IGN.com, GameSpy, Play and the US edition of PC Gamer, as well as GameSpot's Readers' Choice award for Best RPG. Rave reviews from fans and media have translated into excellent sales results, as the game has sold more than 600,000 copies around the world. The company recently announced The Witcher Enhanced Edition, which further improves the existing gameplay, introduces two new adventures alongside the D'jinni Adventure Editor and features numerous bonus items packed in the box, including the official soundtrack CD, an album of music inspired by the game, a cloth map of The Witcher's world and more.
"We have been working with Tom for some time now and our collaboration has been very productive," said Adam Kicinski, CEO of CD Projekt RED. "Appointing Tom to the position of Vice President is a big step towards strengthening our position in the demanding Western markets, particularly in America. With Tom as our representative, our
confidence in the commercial success of our titles is greatly boosted."
"I can't really express how happy I am to join CD Projekt RED," said Tom Ohle. "I love the people, the company and The Witcher. The company has a lot of ambitious goals and a tremendous amount of promise, and I hope I can help CD Projekt RED make a big splash on the global games market. The Witcher was really just the beginning."
Areyanna has created a new beautiful wallpaper for the site. It is available for download and there are several different resolutions there to accomodate everyone!
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Do you absolutely love facebook.com and The Witcher? Well then, I have good news for you! The Witcher now has a facebook page. You can find several poster images, screenshots and more.
So sign up or log in and join The Witcher Community on Facebook.com.
CD Projekt announced today that the release of the toolkit D'jinni will be delayed until the end of March.
We would like to apologize everyone, who impatiently awaited today's release of the D'jinni adventure editor and the first official adventure "The Price of Neutrality". Unfortunately, due to unforeseen circumstances (legal issues concerning making and publishing of mods), the release of the adventure editor has to be delayed until the last week of March. We are sorry again and we thank for understanding. We will also make all possible efforts in order to avoid any other delays and to provide new additions, that will meet your expectations.
After a very positive reception of the first collection of short stories created by Andrzej Sapkowski "The Last Wish", we are very happy to inform, that another part of A. Sapkowski's prose is announced to be released in September. The first part of The Witcher Saga - "Blood of the Elves" translated by Danuta Stok - will be published, the same as with "The Last Wish", by Gollancz publishing house.
Gamebanshee had the opportunity to corner Tom Ohle, Katarzyna Kuczynska, and Mateusz Kanik to ask them a few questions about the upcoming Enhanced Edition.
GB: Tell us more about the recently announced Enhanced Edition. What can we expect from the two new adventures being included in the revised version and how will they tie into the original storyline?
Tom: When The Witcher was originally released in October last year, we got a lot of important feedback from fans and media about the issues they had with the game. For the most part, gamers were able to look past their concerns to get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but in some cases, those problems � long load times, inconsistent dialogue and stability, among others � meant enough to have a very negative impact on how some people perceived the game. We�ve made things better through patches we�ve released since launch, but we really want to fundamentally improve the game and give gamers the ultimate role-playing game. For The Witcher Enhanced Edition we�re fixing nearly everything that players and journalists complained about, repackaging the whole thing with some awesome bonus content like two music CDs, a making-of DVD, the D�jinni Adventure Editor and more. People who already paid for the original will get all of the in-game improvements for free in the form of a patch� which may or may not be gigantic.
Katarzyna: Both adventures take place before the events presented in The Witcher. The Price of Neutrality tells the story of a girl that arrives in Kaer Morhen and brings some trouble to the witchers� world. She is Eskel�s surprise child and she wants to become his student. But there are some powerful people going after her and Geralt has to make a difficult choice� The Side Effect adventure is a completely different one. It focuses on interesting and diverse gameplay with a lighter, less serious plot. Geralt will have to help his friend Dandelion get out of trouble by gathering a considerable amount of money.
CD Projekt released Patch 1.2a, which is designed to correct an occasional compatibility issue that was found between the download version of The Witcher and Patch 1.2. You can download the new patch here.
MTV Multiplayer took the time to interview CD Projekt's CEO, Michal Kicinski. In the interview they discuss the sexual elements and how they had to adjust to different standards.
Games usually avoid sex. It�s largely an American taboo, however, so it doesn�t necessarily follow that developers don�t want to explore it. We asked Michal Kicinski, CEO of CD Projekt, the European studio behind PC�s �The Witcher,� to discuss his experiences designing a game with sexual elements and bringing it to the US.
Vault Network honors the man who made it possible for us to even exist. Gary Gygax, co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons and genius at role-playing rulesets, died yesterday at the age of 69. In honor of all he has done for our industry, we have put together a memorial page.
Jonric's Journal #9 Can CD Projekt Red expand upon its award-winning debut release, The Witcher, to turn it into a major franchise?
In May, it will be four years since my initial glimpse of The Witcher and my first chance to meet members of the team at E3. I'd never heard of CD Projekt until slightly before then; the company was Poland's leading distributor of game software, but was just getting into development by forming its Red studio. Prior to the meeting, I had learned its debut endeavor would be an RPG based on a literary property that, while unknown to me at the time, was described as hugely successful in Poland and nearby countries.
Take a few minutes to check out the entire article over at rpgvault.ign.com.
The February Edition of the Witcher Newsletter is available for viewing. They have a lot of great information about the upcoming enhanced edition. Here is a excerpt from the newsletter:
In May of this year, a completely new and improved version of The Witcher will appear in stores, a game considered by many players as well as the media as the best cRPG of 2007! The Witcher: Enhanced Edition will be a completely polished product. Changes concern the removal of technical obstacles that hinder the player from properly using the game and thus gaining enjoyment from it, which means shorter level loading times, which will be reduced by 80%, the stability of the game on different configurations, as well as a whole array of smaller fixes that will increase interactivity and precision in combat. The English language version will be, for the most part, completely re-done. The amount of text in that version was reduced compared to other language versions and that was said to cause a significant decrease in immersion and atmosphere. Now the English version will be as polished and atmospheric as the other language versions. Speaking of language versions, most of them will be more or less improved. Significant changes will also be made in the German version, where it is planned to re-record the voices for many of the characters. Other changes will include among all more than 50 new supporting character models, new inventory panel and more than 100 new animated gestures.
CD Projekt Red has launched their fansite program and is currently looking for more sites to be added to the list. There are many benefits to joining the fansite community. If you are interested in joining the fansite community, check out thewitcher.com's fansite program section.
CD Projekt announced that they have been awarded with yet another amazing award. Congratulations CD Projekt!
Warsaw Business Journal has awarded CD Projekt RED with a prestigious award in the "International Success Story 2007" category in recognition of our efforts to introduce Poland as a player in the international games industry. Naturally, we were recognized as a result of The Witcher�s success. The "International Success Story 2007" award is one of four prestigious awards given this year by the WBJ editorial staff. WBJ awards are given to extraordinary Polish companies, which stand out due to their actions, independent of the industry from which they stem. The award on a behalf of the company has been received by CD Projekt's Managing Director, Micha� Kici�ski.
CD Projeckt Red announced today that Metropolis Software and CD Projekt Red have merged. Here is what they had to say:
Today's news does not regard directly The Witcher. However, we have decided, that it is worthy of publishing on our website, as this information relates also to the future of CD Projekt RED. Merging Metropolis Software and CD Projekt should have a great influence on our work, which should result in the exchange of experiences between both development teams, in terms of promotion, development and, in time, also of support by exchanging our specialists. We would like also to invite you to watch a movie describing shortly merger of two companies.
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