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This year’s Games Developers Conference Europe has added post-mortems of CD Projekt’s, The Witcher 2, and Eskil Steenberg’s indie title, Love. Cryptic Studios will also be on hand to discuss user-generated content in MMOs. Other confirmed sessions include a post-mortem of thatgamecompany’s Journey, and Rare’s N64 classic, GoldenEye.

GDC Europe takes place in Cologne from August 13 – 15, on the eve of gamescom.

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CD Projekt’s released the second developer diary for the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2. The five-and-a-half minute long video, titled, “The most complex and non-linear story ever told on Xbox 360,” shows the principle writers of the game discussing its story. Get the first dev diary for the 360 version over here. The game releases on April 17 worldwide for Xbox 360. Watch the video below.

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CD Projekt’s released the first developer diary for The Witcher II on Xbox 360 following the game’s April release announcement a few weeks back. The video details the new content coming for the story and gameplay, how its bringing over improvements from the PC version to the console version and how it’ll be an adaptation of the PC SKU rather than a straight up port.

Get the video over at Joystiq. Witcher II 360 launched on April 17 worldwide from Warner in the US and Namco Bandai in Europe.

Good Old Games has announced it’ll bundle The Witcher 2 together with the Enhanced Version of The Witcher 1 as part of the group’s Christmas sale for £14.99, saving up to 40 percent on the offering. That particular offering will begin on Thursday, and will end on Saturday. Also on offer will be multiple old PC games, including Master of Orion 1 and 2, and Realms of Arkadia 1 and 2, throughout Saturday and Sunday. Then next Monday, there’ll be a 50% off celebration on “virtually every game in the catalogue” until January 2. Hey, that’s my birthday! HINT.

Thanks, EG.

It’s a bank holiday in England and Wales, today but don’t let that stop you savouring on your daily dose of news. Sit back on your comfy-ish chair and read these snippets.

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Which Witcher is which? Well, Witcher: Versus is the Witcher bewitching your iPhone, and it’s available now. Witcherly.

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Despite coyly refusing to officially confirm a console port of the ravishing RPG, CD Projekt has confirmed that The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings was built with that intention.

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Don’t feel like paying? You’ll pay for that.

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CD Projekt has has announced its founders, Marcin Iwinski and Michal Kicinski have resigned from their positions as CEO and director of business development, respectively.

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A long Witcher 2 video’s up on YouTube. Quick. Before it gets yanked.

It’s called Assassins of Kings. The movie features documentary footage of CD Projekt’s offices.

Quick quick quick. It looks fucking awesome.

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The Witcher: Rise of the White Wolf developer WideScreen has confirmed to VG247 that the game has been suspended as CD Projekt has failed to meet financial obligations.

“After having a payment being broken by CD Projekt – a big payment that we were supposed to receive – and after having committed to the project but not being covered financially on it for three months, I hold no choice but to put the team on hold,” said Widescreen boss Olivier Masclef in a phone interview this afternoon.

Masclef also said CD Projekt’s deal with Atari was out of kilter with Widescreen’s agreement with CD Projekt in terms of milestones.

The suspension came after a meeting between the three parties, called by Masclef.

Staff have not been laid off, said the exec.

“We have be reallocating people onto other projects and work for hire jobs at the moment,” he said.

“I will try to find any solution for the fans. The Witcher on console is an extremely promising title that’s awaited by a lot of people. We have it running here, and I can tell you that if it hits the shelves one day it’s going to be great… I feel sorry for the fans and I feel sorry for Namco Bandai.”

Masclef said he “appreciated” Namco, who has signed a distribution deal with Atari of which Rise of the White Wolf formed a large part, but said he wasn’t sure if the game would ever been completed.

“I don’t know. I can’t find a financial solution by myself,” he said. “I don’t own the IP – CD Projekt owns the IP and Atari owns the distribution rights.”

First news of the game’s cancellation came from Polish site Polygamia yesterday.

For some of us, autumn, and the console versions of The Witcher, can’t get here soon enough. There’s new screens of Rise of the White Wolf after the break.

Sure, we’ve already played it on PC. Sure, it’s the same game despite a major rebuild. Doesn’t matter.

It’s Geralt. The Captain Kirk of the medieval world.

Woot.

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In an interview with Gamecyte, CD Projekt’s Tom Ohle said that the console version of the Witcher – Rise of the White Wolf – is not just your standard port, and is being rebuilt almost from the ground up.

“We’re not just slapping together a port and are actually making a game built from the ground up to be an amazing console RPG,” said Ohle.

“We’ve gone back and motion-captured a lot more combat animations for the new combat actions, like parries, counter-attacks, enhanced evasion, special attacks, etc. We’re also enhancing the enemy AI to make them more aggressive and perform a wide range of offensive and defensive actions to make the combat a bit more action-oriented.”

According to the piece, CD Projekt also confirmed downloadable content for the RPG, although there is no quote to substantiate the claim. Read all about it through the link.

Thanks, Kotaku

The first screens of Atari RPG The Witcher: Enhanced Edition were released today. See them on Shacknews.

The update will be made available in September as a patch and a disc, and will updates tons of stuff, including NPC variety, animations and dialogue translation.

Take a look.