THE BIG GAME THE WITCHER 3
THE WITCHER 3: WILD HUNT WITCHING HOUR
From being mentioned by Barack Obama to appearing on stage at Microsoft’s Media Briefing, The Witcher is a series going from strength to strength. Alex Calvin speaks to developer CD Projekt RED’s joint CEO and co-founder Marcin Iwiński about the next chapter in the franchise
Release: February 24th 2015 Formats: PS4, XO, PC Publisher: Bandai Namco Developer: CD Projekt RED
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here are a number of ways of gauging how popular your game franchise is
– how many units it has sold, the amount of money you have made and where it is placing in the charts. But when one of your games is name-dropped by the President of the United States when he visits your home country, you know that it might be a bit of a big deal. “It’s so great,” says Marcin Iwiński one of Polish studio CD Projekt RED’s founders and CEOs. “When President Obama was
last in Poland, the prime minister gave him a copy of The Witcher 2 and when he came back he mentioned it so it meant that there’s definitely a lot
of attention about the Polish games industry. “I’m sure Obama isn’t mentioning it without a reason. We are on the radar and we’re getting more and more known around the world.” The Witcher is Polish through
and through, based on books by local author Andrzej Sapkowski. “I read the first story in high
school and started to think how cool it would be to make it into a game. Sapkowski might not have realised it, but his literature was perfect for a game,” says Iwiński.
ON STAGE
And being mentioned by Obama isn’t even the biggest name drop the series has recieved recently. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was one of three RPG titles shown off
as a part of Microsoft’s Press Briefing at this year’s E3 – the other two being Fable and Dragon Age Inquisition. But Iwiński is not intimidated by this competition. “Dragon Age is coming out
We wanted to make a huge uncompromising world. The game was always made with
next-gen in mind Marcin Iwiński, CD Projekt RED
this year and Fable is targeted at a different audience entirely. There isn’t any competiton. I sincerely hope that RPG gamers will buy all of them.” Appearing on
Microsoft’s stage
with such illustrious company isn’t a bad start for the game at E3. Not only this, and it it
was demoed on the show
July 18th 2014
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