Four years since the announcement of Project Orion: why no one is rushing the Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
Game anniversaries usually come up when the countdown is measured in months. But sometimes all a title has is a codename and a line in quarterly reports. Then the anniversary feels more like a wake,...
The Witcher 3 fans are upset that the remaster literally destroyed the cozy charm of golden Toussaint
The chase for photorealism does strange things to games. Raw detail ages in a couple of years, while good art design lasts for decades. Sometimes a path tracing update manages to swap the latter for...
Don't slaughter the cows in The Witcher 3's prologue – otherwise the game turns into a horror movie
Starting areas in RPGs usually run on an unspoken agreement. The world goes easy on the hero and throws a few wolves, drowners, and a couple of clumsy bandits their way. Sometimes that deal falls...
Modder turns all griffins in The Witcher 3 into legendary low-poly pigeons
Modder grapedia released Low-Poly Pigeon – The Revenge for The Witcher 3. The mod turns every Griffin in the game into the angular bird players know from the long-running meme. For anyone out of the...
The Witcher 3 fans split into two camps: some complain about overly drastic combat changes, while others don't notice them at all
Improving something millions of players have already beaten inside and out is one of the most thankless jobs in game development. Changes either go unnoticed entirely or get noticed too well, and then your own...
The Witcher 3 remaster made dungeons brighter and monsters funnier
Darkness in games works as well as any soundtrack, because the scariest things are the ones you can't see. But flood a dungeon with even light and render every brick, and the monster around the...
The developers of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 wanted to send players to a new region from the start, but are doing everything they can to dodge questions about the main villain
CD Projekt RED is keeping most story details of the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past under wraps. The studio has shown the setting and a few characters Geralt will meet, but the...
The Witcher 3 players joke about Vesemir riding an invisible horse around White Orchard after the remaster release
Big updates to older games work like a lottery. New textures and lighting almost always come bundled with surprises, and some of them look like genuine witcher magic. Case in point: Geralt's gray-haired mentor calmly...
8 cars from Cyberpunk 2077 and their real-life counterparts: From Mustang to garbage truck
Futuristic car design in games almost always grows out of a very earthly garage. An artist can paint all the neon, chrome, and flying cars they want, but beneath the 2077 gloss, the silhouettes of...
Fans of The Witcher 3 are disappointed with the remaster, which turned out to be packed with bugs
You don't look a gift horse in the mouth, as everyone knows. The trouble starts when the horse isn't visible at all, and the rider glides over the ground with legs spread wide, occasionally sinking...
CD Projekt RED releases patch for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt remaster with DLSS and fix for dark interiors
CD Projekt RED released a patch for the The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Updated Edition on PS5 and Xbox Series. The Xbox Play Anywhere version on PC also got its own fix. The studio announced...
One PC setting rids The Witcher 3 Remastered of its washed-out picture
The Witcher 3 Remastered launched this week, and early impressions of the re-release are mostly positive. Lighting has sparked the most debate. The updated visuals are noticeably brighter than the original, and some fans of...
The events of Songs of the Past for The Witcher 3 take place after Blood and Wine, but you don't have to complete the expansion
CD Projekt RED revealed where the The Witcher 3 expansion Songs of the Past fits in the timeline and what players need to finish before starting it. The story takes place after the ending of...
David and Lucy from Cyberpunk Edgerunners in Fallout, Mass Effect, Persona, Red Dead Redemption and other universes
The suffix "-punk" stopped being a genre marker a long time ago and turned into a universal aesthetic generator: take any technology, add social inequality, and you're done. Dieselpunk, atompunk, solarpunk, shibuyapunk – the list...
55 missed calls from Panam and the main problem with the Phantom Liberty ending in Cyberpunk 2077
The most gut-punching scene in Cyberpunk 2077 looks completely mundane – just a phone log with a counter showing 55 missed calls from one nomad. V's favorite nomad, no less. We're talking about the "Tower"...
The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past scriptwriter wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone – is the story in good hands?
If you need proof that real fans are working on The Witcher 3's new expansion, here's one: the lead writer of Songs of the Past wrote her thesis analyzing "Hearts of Stone" almost a decade...
Songs of the Past were made possible thanks to the development of a remaster of the 11-year-old The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Fool's Theory revealed that the Songs of the Past expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt might never have happened without a massive remaster of the base game. Technical limits of the original engine made...
Geralt's chain was supposed to appear back in The Witcher 3, but it only became technically possible now
The Witcher 3 is finally getting a weapon fans have wanted for over a decade – Geralt will get a chain. In Andrzej Sapkowski novels, the witcher occasionally uses a chain when fighting monsters. It...
Songs of the Past will conclude The Witcher 3's story, not pave the way to The Witcher 4
CD Projekt Red says the third and final expansion for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, called Songs of the Past, will "complete" the game story by finally giving Dandelion the spotlight he deserves. Developers clarified...
After the free remaster of The Witcher 3 was announced, most gamers once again calling CD Projekt RED the best studio in the universe
Games industry has trained everyone to expect a familiar cycle – a studio ships a broken game, collects money from preorders, quietly patches critical bugs for six months, then moves on to the next title....
