The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings: news and videos

Why is The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings free on Xbox 360 in the US? We don't know (CD Projekt Red hasn't updated its Twitter in nearly two weeks)! But you sure can mosey on to the download link and grab it! I just tested it, and can confir...   read

With The Witcher 3 not to far off and looking pretty darn impressive, now would be a good time to catch up on the earlier games in the series. Steam has you covered by making both The Witcher and its sequel, The Witcher 2: Assassins of King...   read

Eurogamer has an interesting story on the entire history of CD Projekt Red and the development of The Witcher games. One of the more noteworthy things to come out of it is how the studio almost closed before The Witcher 2 hap...   read

The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings developer CD Projekt RED has released its REDKit suite of mod tools in open beta as a free download -- you'll just need to own the game to partake. This has been a long time coming and should result in so...   read

It's reassuring to hear that the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is skipping past the crowded March release schedule in favor of an April 17th launch in North America. If you missed out on the original game for any num...   read

After word got out that CD Projekt RED was targeting individuals it believed to have pirated The Witcher 2, the company was met with resistance. Between the supposed 100% accuracy of identifying pirates and the high amount of compensation b...   read

The Witcher 2 developer CD Projeckt RED has, as promised, started going after those individuals it believes have pirated the game. According to TorrentFreak, thousands of BitTorrent users in Germany are being told by an external law firm to...   read

According to CD Projekt CEO Marcin Iwinski, optimistic estimations suggest that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings has been illegally downloaded at least 4.5 million times.  "I was checking regularly the number of concurrent downlo...   read

After a few months of legal shenanigans between Witcher 2 developer CD Projekt RED and distributor Namco Bandai, they've announced that Warner Brothers will be taking distribution duties for the Xbox 360 release of the RPG. The re-rele...   read

Get ready you silver-haired monster slayers of Temeria, The Witcher 2 version 2.0 is almost here! In preparation for its release on Thursday, CD Projekt RED has given up the details on all the features that 2.0 will contain. There will be a...   read

Do you love Geralt of Rivia? Do you love stomping through the lands of Temeria, taking on creature and thug with blazing silver and steel? Or do you enjoy chatting up the ladies? Then don't put away your wolf-head just yet, Gerry, The Witch...   read

Coming soon is the "new and improved" PC version 2.0 of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings. At least, that's what this dramatic music video tells us. What a positively amazing place for this odd bit of news to turn up. There's going to be mo...   read

Patch 1.3 for The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings is a hefty one. On top of much-needed additions (item storage, better support for aspect ratios, etc.) and fixes to the game, CD Projekt is throwing in the quest "A Sackful of Fluff" for Chapt...   read

Over the last few months, I have started to return to PC gaming -- but it isn't without its flaws, as those who follow me on Twitter are well aware from when I attempted to install The Witcher 2. However, all is not lost for those who...   read

The Witcher was an interesting little game, at once strangely compelling and pointlessly tiring. It had serious potential, but the slow pace and backtracking held it back. Still, it was something of a triumph, especially for Polish game dev...   read