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How The Witcher became a gaming smash hit

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I’m going to begin this week’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’s missive nailed down, and then CD Projekt Red went and , so now I’ve gotta talk about that. There are almost no details about the game yet – just confirmation that it’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 in total.

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