The Witcher Confirmed for North America
Excellent news for PC RPG fans as Atari announces an agreement to publish CD Projekt's fantasy role-playing game The Witcher in North America. The Witcher is based off of an extremely popular series of books by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, featuring a monster hunter named Geralt gifted with strange powers. The series has been turned into a movie, a television series, and a pen & paper role-playing game in already in Europe, and a short story collection is due to be published in English in April.
The game is being built with a modified version of Bioware's Aurora Engine, seen in Neverwinter Nights 2, though adjusted for single-player gameplay. The game is looking rather sweet, and after reading some of the background info on the series while writing this, I eagerly await the chance to delve deeper into the storyline. The Witcher is scheduled for a Spring release in Europe, with Atari aiming for a Fall release for North America. More details, coming right up!
Atari and CD Projekt Sign Publishing Agreement for 'The Witcher'
Highly Anticipated PC Role-Playing Game Confirmed for Fall 2007 North American Release
NEW YORK, Feb. 5: Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR), one of the world's most recognized brands and a third-party video game publisher, and game developer CD Projekt Sp. z.o.o. today announced that the companies have entered into a publishing agreement for The Witcher, whereby Atari will market and distribute CD Projekt's upcoming fantasy role-playing game (RPG) throughout North America. The Witcher is scheduled for release on Games for Windows, the new brand optimized for Windows XP and Windows Vista, in North America in Fall 2007.
The Witcher transcends traditional fantasy role-playing by throwing players into a unique world rife with political intrigue, in which the lines between good and evil are blurred. Based on the world created by best-selling Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, The Witcher casts players as Geralt, a legendary monster slayer and master swordfighter with supernatural abilities and reflexes. The Witcher presents a fresh approach to traditional role-playing, blending an expansive, twisting plotline - in which the impact of individual decisions can drastically alter the outcome of the game - and fast-paced combat against a wide variety of foes. Using advanced graphics and physics systems, The Witcher delivers brutal action, multi-faceted RPG options and an intriguing story to engulf all players who dare.
"The Witcher is a tremendous game that has been on everyone's radar since CD Projekt began development," said Jeremiah Cohn, Product Manager, Atari, Inc. "With this publishing deal, Atari continues its quest to bring highly impressive titles to North America and we have our sights set on making The Witcher one of the most anticipated RPGs of the year."
"We are delighted to begin a mutually beneficial relationship with Atari, a publishing partner that shares our commitment to delivering a top-quality role-playing game," said Michal Kicinski, Joint CEO of CD Projekt. "We are very much looking forward to working with Atari to bring this distinctive fantasy world that we love to a broad audience."
For more information about The Witcher visit www.thewitcher.com and for more details about Atari's entire product line up visit www.atari.com.
About CD Projekt
Founded in 1994, CD Projekt is one of Eastern Europe's largest game distributors, with offices in Warsaw and Prague. The company specializes in localization and publishing role-playing games, having brought such hits as Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Neverwinter Nights and The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind to the Polish market. In September 2003, the company's development branch, CD Projekt RED, announced its first internally developed game, The Witcher®. More information about CD Projekt can be found online at www.cdprojekt.com.
About Atari
New York-based Atari, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATAR) develops interactive games for all platforms and is a third-party publisher of interactive entertainment software in the U.S. The Company's 1,000+ titles include hard-core, genre-defining franchises such as The MatrixTM (Enter The Matrix and The Matrix: Path of Neo) and Test Drive®; and mass-market and children's franchises such as Dragon Ball Z®. Atari, Inc. is a majority-owned subsidiary of France-based Infogrames Entertainment SA (Euronext - ISIN: FR-0000052573), one of the largest interactive games publisher in Europe. For more information, visit www.atari.com.
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