{"id":5111,"date":"2022-03-22T13:38:11","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T13:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T12:38:11","slug":"how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: there\u2019s another instalment of CD Projekt Red\u2019s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it\u2019s sure to have some bite. Time to play catch up!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/ng-interactive\/2021\/nov\/24\/sign-up-for-pushing-buttons-keza-macdonalds-weekly-look-at-the-world-of-gaming\">Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m going to begin this week\u2019s Pushing Buttons with a personal plea to game developers and publishers: could you stop announcing huge news in the hours before (or just after) my newsletter deadline, please!? I basically had this week\u2019s missive nailed down, and then CD Projekt Red went and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdprojekt.com\/en\/media\/news\/new-witcher-saga-announced-cd-projekt-red-begins-development-on-unreal-engine-5-as-part-of-a-strategic-partnership-with-epic-games\/\">confirmed the next game in the Witcher series<\/a>, so now I\u2019ve gotta talk about that. There are almost no details about the game yet \u2013 just confirmation that it\u2019s being made (in Unreal Engine 5, for the tech nerds). But this is still a big deal, because The Witcher 3 in particular is one of the most interesting and beloved (and successful) fantasy games ever made. It\u2019s sold over 30 million copies; the series has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/uk\/the-witcher-series-hits-50-million-sales\/\">topped 50 million<\/a> in total.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2022\/mar\/22\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/78888f7e767d939b0b9218313ea34d46d79cb285\/60_0_1800_1080\/master\/1800.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=16738125f6209e232573c9d007b964c8\" title=\"How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit\" \/>In this week\u2019s newsletter: there\u2019s another instalment of CD Projekt Red\u2019s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it\u2019s sure to have some bite. Time to play catch up!<br \/>\nDon\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<br \/>\nWelcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below \u2013 and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<br \/>\nI\u2019m going to begin this week\u2019s Pushing Buttons with a personal plea to game developers and publishers: could you stop announcing huge news in the hours before (or just after) my newsletter deadline, please!? I basically had this week\u2019s missive nailed down, and then CD Projekt Red went and confirmed the next game in the Witcher series, so now I\u2019ve gotta talk about that. There are almost no details about the game yet \u2013 just confirmation that it\u2019s being made (in Unreal Engine 5, for the tech nerds). But this is still a big deal, because The Witcher 3 in particular is one of the most interesting and beloved (and successful) fantasy games ever made. It\u2019s sold over 30 million copies; the series has topped 50 million in total. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week\u2019s newsletter: there\u2019s another instalment of CD Projekt Red\u2019s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it\u2019s sure to have some bite. Time to play catch up! Don\u2019t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian\u2019s gaming newsletter. If you\u2019d like to receive it in your &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/22\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}