{"id":2840,"date":"2022-03-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/uncategorized\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T14:41:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T14:41:43","slug":"how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s newsletter: there&rsquo;s another instalment of CD Projekt Red&rsquo;s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian&rsquo;s gaming newsletter. If you&rsquo;d like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below &ndash; and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m going to begin this week&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;ve gotta talk about that. There are almost no details about the game yet &ndash; just confirmation that it&rsquo;s 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&rsquo;s 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this week&rsquo;s newsletter: there&rsquo;s another instalment of CD Projekt Red&rsquo;s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it&rsquo;s sure to have some bite. Time to play catch up! Don&rsquo;t get Pushing Buttons delivered to your inbox? Sign up here Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian&rsquo;s gaming newsletter. If you&rsquo;d like to receive it in your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techsparx.co.uk\/north\/how-the-witcher-became-a-gaming-smash-hit\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit - Regional technology news - North - TechSparx - Business technology stories in the North\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In this week&rsquo;s newsletter: there&rsquo;s another instalment of CD Projekt Red&rsquo;s fantasy behemoth on the way, and it&rsquo;s sure to have some bite. 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