These New Witcher 3 Screenshots Look Wonderful

The Witcher 3 isn’t releasing until February of next year, and in recent weeks has been a bit overshadowed by holiday releases like Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor, Forza Horizon 2, and the latest Super Smash Bros. Still, developer CD Projekt RED remains more focused than ever in its final months of development on the game, and has released some new screenshots to prove it. You can check them out in the gallery below.

In other Witcher news, IGN recently sat down with CD Projekt RED head of marketing and PR Michal Platkow-Gilewski to discuss both DRM and DLC in games. If you had any reservations about whether or not the Polish company has your back on such matters, it sounds as though you can put them to rest.

We don’t want to assault anyone. Each time we are thinking about a decision, the first rule is we have to treat gamers like we’d like to be treated. We don’t believe in DRM because we hate DRM. It also doesn’t protect, not really. Games are cracked in minutes, hours or days, but they’re always cracked. If you want to pirate you’ll find a way. But if you’re a committed gamer and are buying the game why should we place a barrier on you?

Then, with DLC, it’s small content. Like one-thousandth of the whole game. Why should you charge for that? If it’s small, give it for free. I know it’s not always possible or easy but this is what we want to give gamers; a little bit of love, which we’d like to get from other developers as gamers ourselves.

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Talk about an inspiring attitude. It’s true that not all developers can afford to be so gracious with their bonus content, but when a game is as large as The Witcher 3 (read: larger than Skyrim), anything extra is minuscule–at least development-wise–in comparison.

The Witcher 3 is coming February 24th of next year for PS4, Xbox One, and PC, so you have until then to decide from which platform you prefer to hunt otherworldly armies and save the world. Or, you know, screw around in a massive open-world sandbox.