The Latest Breaking News from Pawel Sasko

Witcher 3's heaviest scene stunned its devs into silence, but Cyberpunk 2's associate director says it was crucial for 'understanding the craft' of quest design

It sure stunned me.

PC Gamer · May 21

The Witcher 3 lead quest designer says the room fell into "wide eyes and silence" when he pitched one of the open-world RPG's biggest twists

But it's just what the plot needed

GamesRadar · May 20

"Oh my god, I can have a car in the game now": CD Projekt Red devs were thrilled at the "novelty" of modern tech after moving from Witcher to Cyberpunk 2077

Don't take your cars or phones for granted, folks

GamesRadar · Dec 12, 2025

Cyberpunk 2 associate game director reveals his greatest development secret: 10 hour loops of music like "Epic Sax Guy" that "gives me insane focus and clarity"

Some people like lofi, others prefer 15 year old memes

GamesRadar · Feb 20, 2025

Before he was Cyberpunk 2's associate director and was just "employee #86," CDPR dev says it took him 46 tries to beat an infamous boss in The Witcher 2: "I was losing my mind"

Draug is no slouch, even for the developer whose job it was to beat him

GamesRadar · Feb 13, 2025

Cyberpunk 2 director is "quite sure" people haven't found all of the secrets in The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077

There might still be Easter Eggs hiding in Night City

GamesRadar · Jul 20, 2024

CDPR vet reflects on a classic RPG problem: The stats-over-fashion "clown meta" in Cyberpunk 2077, which lots of players hated but almost nobody knew how to fix

It had to exist

GamesRadar · Jul 19, 2024

Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3 developers made "elaborate" secrets because they knew players would use guides and "share with the community"

Secrets that might have been impossible to find before the internet

GamesRadar · Jul 19, 2024

CD Projekt's Pawel Sasko tells the inspiring tale of how an Estonian beet farmer in Australia became a senior quest designer on The Witcher 4

CD Projekt really likes to hire modders.

PC Gamer · Jul 16, 2024

Years ago CDPR found a farmer who was remaking The Witcher inside The Witcher 3, brought him from Australia to Poland, and now he's working on The Witcher 4

From a beetroot farm to CDPR's Warsaw-based headquarters

GamesRadar · Jul 16, 2024