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Rather than hit the ground running after The Witcher, CD Projekt was about to fall flat on its face.

"Then there is my daughter and then my son. "The company is my baby, is my first baby," he tells me. It was the scariest moment in Marcin Iwiński's 20-year career. Elsewhere, the publishing-distribution business CD Projekt was founded on had become a black hole, sucking money away, and GOG was barely big enough to sustain itself. The money from the first game had been burned trying to clear up the mess of The Witcher: White Wolf, the console game that never was. It was 2009, two years after the first The Witcher, and the global economic crisis had CD Projekt on its knees. I travel to Warsaw in Poland to visit CD Projekt, celebrated house of The Witcher, and there's one thing I discover that I can't stop telling people: The Witcher 2 was very nearly canned, and the entire company almost collapsed. Here, Robert Purchese reveals the story of Witcher developer CD Projekt in an article first published in November 2013. Keep Circulating the Tapes: In addition, due to the dispute between Raven Software (the developers, a subsidiary of Activision), Activision, and Bethesda themselves, the game is unavailable on all forms of digital distribution, making it impossible to obtain other than buying a physical CD-copy (which includes a now no longer working disc-check method you could obtain a no-CD crack, but that's of questionable legality), so the console ports on Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 will probably be your best bet to play the game legally.The Witcher 3 comes out on Tuesday, 19th May, and so we've hauled an exciting Witcher-related article out of the Eurogamer archive for you to read again or enjoy for the first time if you missed it.Screwed by the Network: id Software, the company which owns the Wolfenstein license, was bought out by Bethesda Softworks (a competing publisher to Activision) before the game was released, causing the game's publisher to not try its hardest to market the game.Sequel Gap: Eight years from Return to Castle Wolfenstein in 2001 to this game (shortened to 6 if you count Splash Damage's Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory from 2003), and then five years from this to MachineGames' Wolfenstein: The New Order.Blazkowicz is now voiced by Peter Jessop, taking over for Matthew Kaminsky from the console ports of Return to Castle Wolfenstein.