All publications of the author

Industry News

CD Projekt RED doing great on Steam and Warsaw Stock Exchange

CD Projekt RED announced that the Steam version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt has generated over $50 million in revenue since October 1st 2018. Around that time, Valve’s storefront introduced a tiered revenue split system. For each title that has brought in over 50 million, Steam now takes 20% of its subsequent revenues. That means that from now on, CD Projekt RED will keep 80% of The Witcher 3’s sales on Steam.
Industry News

Rough day for E3 2020 as it leaks its own website and loses Geoff Keighley

A draft version of E3 2020 went live yesterday and was quickly made private. No sensitive information was made public, but this could just be one embarrassment too many for the ESA, E3 organizer, which leaked personal data of about 2000 E3 participants last summer. Anyway, this latest blunder was serious enough for Geoff Keighley to decide not to participate in E3 for the first time in 25 years.