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The Witcher and it’s recent update, The Witcher - Enhanced Edition, have combined to sell over 1 million copies, making the game a HUGE success for developer “CD Projekt Red”. The reason it’s such a big deal is due to the fact that The Witcher was a new IP from an unknown developer from Poland, it’s also a hardcore RPG.

Speaking of the feat., the developers said, “Scientific research has proven that those sales numbers are quite good for a debut game based on a relatively unfamiliar IP from an unknown studio on a ‘dead’ platform,” making light of frequent claims regarding the health of PC gaming.

The announcement comes several weeks after the release of The Witcher: Enhanced Edition, a free 2GB update with improvements and new content developed according to fan feedback. The expansion also saw a retail release with several extras, such as music CDs, making-of videos, an official game guide, and a map of The Witcher’s world.

Says CD-Projekt RED CEO Adam Kicinski, “We created The Witcher with the intent of becoming an acclaimed and successful development studio that always made games for its fans; we spent more than $11 million developing The Witcher and the Enhanced Edition, and it sure is nice to make some of that money back!”

He continues, “The success of The Witcher has ensured that we’ll be able to make the games we want – and the games that fans want – for the foreseeable future, and the amazing response we had from the gaming community to the Enhanced Edition really reinforced that we’re on the right track with our development philosophy.”

The Polish publisher and developer also recently debuted GOG.com, or Good Old Games, a digital download platform offering DRM-free vintage titles, such as Black Isle’s Fallout 2, Piranha Bytes’s Freespace 2, and Bohemia Interactive’s Operation Flashpoint. The company also intends to formally announce a multi-platform project with Metropolis Software (Infernal, They), which is also based in Poland and which CD Projekt acquired earlier this year.

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The backstories for Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 have been covered in a new Fallout Retrospective from the guys over at Gametrailers.

The retrospective looks at all aspects of the first two games in the post-apocalyptic classic series that is beloved by gamers everywhere and will serve to get you amped up and well-informed (if you haven’t played the games previously) for the next game in the series, Bethesda’s Fallout 3, which is scheduled for release tomorrow in the United States and everywhere else by Halloween for PC, Xbox 360 and PS3.

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The first Fallout game from 1997 can now be played for free online via GameTap’s “play free” section.

Here’s what you do in the RPG that’s rated M for Mature with Animated Blood & Gore. “It’s the year 2161, 84 years after a two-hour-long war that destroyed most of civilization. Mankind soldiers on, living out a hardscrabble life on the surface or holing up in great Vaults built inside caves. You’re a member of Vault 13 somewhere in Southern California, and the Vault Overseer’s got a job for you: find a replacement water purification chip within 150 days, or your home is doomed.”

With Fallout 2 from 1998 also recently having been added to the service, you can play both futuristic RPG adventures to your heart’s content until Fallout 3 arrives on October 28th, 2008.