Latest articles by Joshua Wolens
The Witcher 3 didn't originally make you choose between romancing Yennefer or Triss: 'This decision was made pretty late'
News The first game's sex cards were "childish," Badowski says.
CD Projekt Red was considered the 'ugly child' of CD Projekt as a whole before the first Witcher became a hit: 'They will never earn any money here'
News No longer a Botchling.
You haven't truly experienced PC gaming until you've done these 8 things
Relatable If you know, you know.
CD Projekt 'hacked time and space' to cast Charles Dance in The Witcher 3, because they needed an announcement before the countdown on their website reached zero
News Dancing on the ceiling.
Obsidian is right: I want less romance in my RPGs, actually
Love Less Let's set some realistic goals here: jokes banned by 1492 DR. Sex banned by 1498 DR. A Flaming Fist in every household by 1506 DR.
CD Projekt was worried people wouldn't really 'get' dark fantasy as a concept, and then Game of Thrones became the biggest franchise on Earth
News Paint it morally grey.
CD Projekt's co-CEO says The Witcher 2's momentous midgame choice was an 'experiment' and now regards it as a 'waste of resources'
News The developer "brought totally something new" for The Witcher 3.
CD Projekt struggled to sell partners on The Witcher 3 because its gameplay was 'pretty standard' and they didn't believe it could combine storytelling with a cinematic open world
News The wrong side of history.
CD Projekt joint CEO Adam Badowski made everyone's life miserable when he pointed out if the The Witcher 3 had water, they had to add swimming and create completely new underwater locations
News Under the sea.
'He was scared s***less': Baldur's Gate director was so panicked after playing Final Fantasy 7 that it changed the entire shape of Baldur's Gate 2 (and nearly every RPG since)
News Which, hey, fair enough.
The Elder Scrolls 6 is 'Still a long ways off' says Todd Howard, but the slyboots says the Oblivion shadowdrop was 'A test run' and a select few have already played it
News More like Tease Howard.
Larian publishing director says Steam is dominant because 'It isn't providing a s*** service defined by public shareholder KPIs,' but concedes 'A post-Gabe world is a terrifying one'
News It'll be fine, right? It'll be fine.
Take-Two's big boss Strauss Zelnick says it got the 'perfect result' from slimmed-down mob tale Mafia: The Old Country, so I'd brace for more games like that if I were you
News Molto bene.
23 years later, Morrowind on controller and Steam Deck just got a million times better: The latest version of OpenMW is out now
News This is like Christmas to me.
CD Projekt Red tells Rockstar not to make the same mistake it did—posts a self-burn over Cyberpunk 2077's historically bad launch to support GTA 6's delay
News A wise man learns from his mistakes. Even wiser ones learn from other people's.
The objectively 13th best game you can play right now is free to play until November 10, so you're officially out of excuses buddy
News Unless you're playing game #1 through #12, in which case fair enough.
Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser wanted to kill Niko Bellic at the end of GTA 4, and only stayed his hand because the studio was 'Full of fear' and the game didn't quite work with it
News So he just traumatised us a few years later, instead.
'All you had to do was follow the damn law, Rockstar!': Workers are protesting outside Take-Two after GTA 6 dev's alleged 'brazen' union-busting
News "They can get used to seeing us on their doorstep."
Kingdom Come: Deliverance lead says Obsidian should use its Microsoft fortune to make games more like Kingdom Come: Deliverance—'Give me something more than... level grinding in a static scripted world'
News Obsidian's streamlined approach to its recent RPGs doesn't resonate with everyone.
Bethesda just can't help itself: It's gearing up to break some Fallout 4 mods one last time for the road—but at least it's just the main menu ones this time
News And as much as I poke fun, it has a better reason than it did for the next-gen patch.
British MPs are comparing one another to Cliff Bleszinski's dead live-service FPS LawBreakers to score points as videogame debate comes to UK Parliament
News Words hurt, you know.
EA pinky promises to 'maintain creative control' in its post-buyout era, but the list of 'cultural values' it plans to keep doesn't mean much at all
News Though I suspect the new owners care a lot more about money than anything else.
The Golden Joystick Awards has published its shortlist of 12 games that could take home its Ultimate Game of the Year trophy, and voting's open now
News You've got until November 7 to make your opinion known.
