The Witcher 3 Director Says Crimson Desert Is 'Not a Copy of Other AAA Games, but Delivering Something Quite Fresh'

The Witcher 3 Director Says Crimson Desert Is 'Not a Copy of Other AAA Games, but Delivering Something Quite Fresh'

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The Witcher 3 director says Clair Obscur and Crimson Desert "delivers something quite fresh"

It's no secret that the gaming industry has had some really tough years, with extremely large and expensive games failing to sell as well as expected and the live service model failing to win over consumers to the extent publishers had hoped. Instead, this has led to many of the biggest hits in recent times coming from new or smaller developers. In an interview with The Game Business, former CD Projekt Red executive Konrad Tomaszkiewicz, now he…

The Blood of Dawnwalker: Its Director Does Not Mind the Witcher 3 Comparisons!

The comparison is no accident, because the game’s director also has deep ties to CD Projekt RED’s 2015 classic…   In The Blood of Dawnwalker, 14th-century Europe, still suffering from the aftermath of war and plague, looks exactly like the kind of muddy hell Geralt would cut his way through in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Its protagonist, the half-vampire Coen, projects a similarly almost-human-but-clearly-something-more energy – a gruff yet accept…

"We had this problem before in the games we created with CD Projekt": Blood of Dawnwalker CEO defends use of AI voice placeholders to save time

Open world vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker makes use of AI-generated voice acting, Rebel Wolves CEO Konrad Tomaszkiewicz has revealed, but doesn't actually feature it in-game. The devs deployed the soul-regurgitating tech to create placeholder voice performances early in development, in order to tinker with quests and the like without re-recording the associated dialogue. Tomaszkiewicz says this has kept costs down, citing his experience at …

Blood of Dawnwalker Dev So Confident That He Doesn't Mind The Witcher Comparisons

See full bio Avinash Jaisrani At Tech4Gamers, I contribute as a Senior News Reporter, combining my skills and gaming enthusiasm to keep our audience updated on the latest developments. See full bio Story Highlight Konrad Tomaszkiewicz states that he feels quite confident about The Blood of Dawnwalker. The developer does not mind his upcoming game being compared to The Witcher, noting that feedback so far has been incredibly positive. The Blood…

The director of sandbox vampire RPG The Blood of Dawnwalker doesn't mind seeing it compared to The Witcher 3, which he also directed: 'I feel really confident about our game'

Geralt of Styria.