Shacknews reports: "Developer CD Projekt today revealed that its reworked and tweaked version of The Witcher, titled The Witcher Enhanced Edition, has been delayed to early September. Originally slated for a May release, CD Projekt made mention of the delay in April, but had not specified a new date for the expanded PC fantasy RPG."
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CD Projekt RED announces that the release of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition has been delayed. The delay can be attributed to the company's goal of making The Witcher: Enhanced Edition as close to a flawless product as possible. CD Projekt RED is dedicated to a simultaneous worldwide launch, and is taking the extra time to polish each language version to meet the high standards of the global games market. The exact date of the premiere of the Enhanced Edition will be announced in the upcoming days.
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A new patch for PC role-playing game The Witcher introduces a brand new adventure created in-house by developer CD Projekt.The Price of Neutrality, as the adventure's named, contains around two hours of gameplay. According to the dev it "takes the player into the little explored outskirts of Kaer Morhen in a compelling story with tough decisions and more than one possible ending."On top of that, alongside the patch is the ... » Read More

Atari today announced the release of the D'jinni beta adventure editor and Price of Neutrality adventure together with patch 1.3 for The Witcher. The first official adventure and patch 1.3 are available for free download via www.thewitcher.com, with a separate free download available containing the D'jinni beta adventure editor. The adventure editor requires the latest game patch installed. CD Projekt RED have also launched the site, where gamers may add or download their adventures.
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The Witcher: DuelMail has gone into open beta, so if last week's news on it tickled your interest then you can dip a toe into its waters.A spin-off from the PC RPG, DuelMail is described as a next-gen web browser game that'll be completely free to play when it launches on May 9.Two players digitally represented as one of three character classes battle it out, with the victor garnering XP (and possibly leveling up). There's also ... » Read More

Not one to sit on its laurels, The Witcher developer CD Projekt has revealed a spin-off game from its RPG - say hello to The Witcher: DuelMail. The Witcher: DuelMail is described as a next-gen web browser game that'll be completely free to play when launches. Two players digitally represented as one of three character classes battle it out, essentially, with victory rewarding a fighter with experience which leads to level gain, character ... » Read More

CD Projekt's well-received PC RPG The Witcher is set to benefit from in-house created content, the developer revealed. "...we are releasing [our] first official adventure with patch 1.3. You'll be able to play totally new quests placed before [the] story of the game," Mateusz Kanik, team lead on D'Jinni, has told The Witcher Vault. This will be the first of a number of official adventures released by CD Projekt, going by what Kanik says in the ... » Read More

From the official site of The Witcher:

"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.

Correction: Unfortunately, the release date of D'jinni + new adventure has been changed from the next week to the last week of March."
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The Witcher official site reports that Andrzej Sapkowski's "Blood of the Elves", translated into English by Danuta Stok, will be published by Gollancz publishing house in September.

"Blood of the Elves" is the first part of The Witcher Saga but the second book to be published in English. The first book that was published in English, "The Last Wish", is an anthology of short stories. "Blood of the Elves" is a full-length novel.
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Starting today, gamers in North America may add the following Atari titles to their Steam games library:

- Act of War: Direct Action
- Act of War: High Treason
- ArmA: Combat Operations
- Atari 80 Classics in 1
- Death to Spies
- Desperados 2: Cooper's Revenge
- Indigo Prophecy
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum
- Tycoon City: New York

In the coming weeks, The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2 and the expansion pack NeverWinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer will also be added to Atari's Steam lineup.
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A new February issue of The Witcher newsletter, which include informations from the weeks of February, has been sent on March 5. You can also read the newsletter online. Its online content:

1. The Witcher: Enhanced Edition approaches!
2. Metropolis joins CD Projekt
3. Fansite program launched
4. Awards and Honors
5. Fan spotlight
6. 200,000 accounts on the Official Board!
7. The Witcher ¿ over 600,000 copies sold!
8. Developers blogs
9. Where to buy?
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Following last week's announcement that The Witcher sales have surpassed 600,000 copies, developer CD Projekt today revealed the 'big surprise' we've been waiting for.

Due for release on May 16th, The Witcher: Special Edition will feature new content in the form of new missions, which roughly translates into two or three hours of new gameplay.

Hit the jump for the juicy details.
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From Playfuls.com: "CD Projekt, the Polish company behind last year's surprisingly good RPG The Witcher, announced that the game sold more than 600,000 copies in less than 3 months.

Adam Kicinski, from the Warsaw, Poland-based developer, also hinted that the franchise has a future, and not just any future: "Our plans include continuous game support, the release of the powerful D'jinni module editor, the continued release of game updates and patches, and in late spring gamers can expect a pretty big surprise, which will be revealed at a press conference really soon ¿ February 18th!"
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ActionTrip's 2007 Game of the Year voting poll registered 10673 participants. 1809 registered users voted for Call of Duty 4, 1279 for Halo 3, 1192 for Assassin's Creed, 837 for "None of the Above", 716 for BioShock, 710 for Crysis, 627 for The Orange Box, and so on. The rest of the results can be viewed in ActionTrip's voting poll section.

¿ People's Choice: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
¿ Runners-up: Halo 3, Assassin's Creed, Crysis, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box

¿ Game of the Year (ActionTrip Staff): Portal
¿ Runners-up: Mass Effect, Halo 3, BioShock, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, The Witcher

¿ Best Action Game: Halo 3
¿ Runners-up: Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Half-Life 2: The Orange Box, God of War II, BioShock, Crysis

¿ Best Strategy Game: World in Conflict
¿ Runners-up: Supreme Commander, Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars

¿ Best RPG: Mass Effect
¿ Runners-up: The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer

¿ Best Sports Game: FIFA 08
¿ Runners-up: SSX Blur, NHL 08, Winning Eleven: Pro Evolution Soccer 2008

¿ Best MMOG: World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade
¿ Runners-up: Tabula Rasa, The Lord of the Rings Online: Shadows of Angmar

¿ Best Rhythm/Music Game: Rock Band
¿ Runners-up: Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

¿ Babe of the Year: Joanna Krupa
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Yup, it's finally here folks :)
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Dec 17, 2007 If you've been hmming and ahhing over whether to buy CD Projekt's RPG The Witcher, then this demo may help you decide. A 1.97GB taster just released lets you play the "first part of the prologue in which the seeds of the story are sown and the white-haired Witcher Geralt learns the rudiments of combat," says Atari, the game's publisher. "The prologue is followed by the entirety of Act 1, during which Geralt of Rivia will see the first threads of the story weave their web around ... » Read More

CD Projekt, have publicly said in multiple interviews that The Witcher would not be brought to consoles. It looks like that's all about to change as the company now has job openings for console programmers on its website. More specifically, the company is looking for programmers and producers familiar with the Xbox 360 hardware.

That's not what has people thinking the job is for The Witcher though. The job requires the Xbox 360 programmer to be skilled in "parallel programming". This basically means "porting" a program that's designed to work in one environment into a near identical product that can perform in a different environment (or architecture). This is on top of the fact that they posted the ad on The Witcher website.
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Atari has released a playable demo for The Witcher, allowing you to try out their role-playing game. Word is "the demo begins with the first part of the prologue in which the seeds of the epic story are sown and the white haired witcher Geralt learns the fundamentals of combat. The prologue is followed by the entirety of Act 1, during which Geralt of Rivia will see the first threads of the story weave their web around him and be called upon to slay man and beast to stay alive and earn his keep."

See the Alternative Sources below for the mirrors to the massive 1.97 GB demo.
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ActionTrip reports:

"I'm sure you've already heard numerous complaints about the game's extensive load times. CD Projekt, the guys behind the game, are supposedly working to fix this, along with other issues. Polish fan site, insipidly named The Witcher's Biggest Unofficial Site, claims that the developers are going to release a demo for the game, in addition to the game's 1.2 patch. The info was gathered during an interview with CD Projekt held at Poznan' Game Arena. Here's the word:"

The 1.2 patch should be released somewhere around December the 7th
The demo should appear somewhere around December the 13th
The editor (called "Djinni") should be relased "somewhere around those dates"
The series will be continued, but it's not decided whether what comes next will be an expansion or a sequel.
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The NPD Group has released the latest list of the top 10 best selling PC games in the US, this time for the week ending November 3. It seems that despite bad reviews, Flagship Studios have done something right, as people buy Hellgate: London despite many reviewers' opinion that it needed a few more months in production.

1. Hellgate: London - Namco/EA
2. Hellgate: London Collectors Edition - Namco/EA
3. Half Life 2: Episode 2 The Orange Box - Valve/EA
4. Age Of Empires III: Asian Dynasties - Microsoft
5. The Sims 2 Bon Voyage - Electronic Arts
6. Nancy Drew: Legend Of The Crystal Skull - Her Interactive
7. Flight Simulator X: Acceleration - Microsoft
8. World Of Warcraft - Blizzard
9. The Witcher - Atari
10. The Sims 2 Deluxe - Electronic Arts
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