Board game version of THE WITCHER in development

Having started out as a series of best-selling novels and short story collections before becoming a series of multi-million-selling video game RPGs, The Witcher franchise is now set to become a board game.

The game is being developed by Fantasy Flight in conjunction with CD Projekt Red, the developers of the video games. Its main designer is Ignacy Trzewiczek, whose track record in board games and RPGs is fairly impressive.

The board game is expected to be released later in 2014, possibly to tie in with the release of The Witcher III: Wild Hunt (expected around August).

WITCHER 3 announced, will be final game in the series

CDProjekt have confirmed that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is in development and will be released in 2014. In a major break from the structure of the first two games, The Witcher 3 will be an open-world game similar to Bethesda's Elder Scrolls game (with Skyrim name-checked several times). The game world will be 30 times the size of The Witcher 2's, and about 20% larger than the setting of Skyrim and Oblivion.

Confirmed: The Witcher 3 will have beards, horses and trees.

CDProjekt have also confirmed that this will be the last game set in The Witcher universe. The games are based on Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, though they are not considered canon (as Sapkowski rather brusquely confirmed a few weeks ago) for the future books in the world that Sapkowski is planning. CDProjekt are also working on an RPG based on the Cyberpunk pen-and-paper system, with their first game in the setting, Cyberpunk 2077, expected to be released in 2015.

The Witcher 3 will be released in 2014 on PC and (almost certainly) next-generation consoles.

CDProjekt on CYBERPUNK 2077 and THE WITCHER 3

CDProjekt have released a CGI trailer for their upcoming SF RPG, Cyberpunk 2077 (based on the classic 1980s pen-and-paper RPG, Cyberpunk). It features lots of bullets and a woman in unseasonal garb:

Meanwhile, CDProjekt have also revealed that they have another game much closer to release and that everyone can guess what it is. There'll be more on this - almost certainly The Witcher 3 - next month.