Today, Atari announced that new content for the PC RPG, The Witcher, will be arriving this week.
This first piece of content will be the Djinni Adventure Editor, a program that allows player to create mods and new adventures. Atari is also releasing the first official new adventure. Named “The Price of Neutrality”, the new adventure grants players a glimpse at the other witchers that are introduced at the start of the game. The last piece of content to be released is the 1.3 patch. The patch adds more polish to the game by adding more dialogue options, NPC models, and new character animations.
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Valve is now adding many of Atari’s PC titles to its digital distribution service, Steam. The current list of titles include:
- Act of War: Direct Action
- Act of War: High Treason
- ArmA: Combat Operations
- Atari 80 Classics in 1
- Death to Spies
- Desperados 2: Cooper’s Revenge
- Indigo Prophecy
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 3: Platinum
- Tycoon City: New York
Valve mentioned that The Witcher, Neverwinter Nights 2 and its expansion Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, will also be coming online shorty.
I have to give my props to Valve. Every time a new company teams up with them to release its games via Steam, I feel that we as PC gamers are moving on to a new era. Keep up the good work.
Read: Atari uses Steam for digital distribution.
The Witcher is getting an upgrade this May, thankfully, since the year has been fairly slow in terms of RPG releases.
Dubbed The Witcher Enhanced Edition, the new version will feature upgraded character models, and numerous bug fixes including improved loading times (thank god). Also in this package will be a soundtrack, a mod editor, a game guide, and two new adventures. Unfortunately no price has been announced yet.
For those of you who have already bought The Witcher, you will be able to download an update and get all this content for free. This might just motivate me to play through it again.
Read: The Witcher gets ‘completely finished’ version in May.
From Atari, The Witcher is a PC-only RPG that is not only trying to redefine the hack-and-slash generation of role-playing games, but also bring a truly engaging story to a truly generic genre. From the mind of Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski, The Witcher is looking to do what every new game does, standout. I spoke with one of the game’s producers here at PAX and got a personal demo to find out just what this title is trying to deliver.
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