We apologize for the lack of information for months, but we have been very busy on many fronts: development, holidays, personal situations being a few reasons. However, with some time opened up now, we have much to tell.It is with a heavy sadness that we will be ceasing development on Arena and Strands of Destiny indefinitely. There is a possibility of restarting this in the future, but with development of other projects, our time has become extremely limited. The scope of the project, as well, is vastly large and without a central location to build it, as well as a full dedicated team, it would take far too long.However, there is always the good with the bad. Since September of last year, we have had a team working on a gaming system, called RiSE. RiSE is a network that will allow independent developers (and naturally modders) to have all the resources and tools necessary to design, development, and distribute commercial-level games. On the gaming community side, it will be a downloadable software package that puts you in touch with the greatest games, and consolidates your life. From support of all major IM services worldwide (AIM, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, GG) built-in, to a monthly online magazine, to an achievement system that has real-world rewards for high scores, and much more, you will be able to do everything you dreamed of for games in one simple location. We will have a splash page detailing the major features shortly, and launch is expected within two months.All of our work for Deception, Arena, and Strands of Destiny will be content available in RiSE, either as a base for other projects, or if someone wished to continue the projects. Arena itself, in terms of content, was nearly done. The Arena model will be available to download. We will also have a very detailed section about all game engines and tools, including Djinni, that will also be available.In other news, we have taken down our SoD forums at http://www.witchermod.com as the project has been shut down, and have disabled comments on this site as both systems have been abused heavily by spammers. Witchermod-related forums will be consolidated into RiSE once it goes live. For now, you can always send an email to info@risegaming.com to find out more about RiSE and our current development projects. Also community links are still setup for The Witcher's main site, forums, and major fan sites.We thank everyone who has watched SoD for the year it was in development, and the many people that tested and played Deception. We hope to have more fun in The Witcher world in the future, as it is an amazing world that has really changed the CRPG genre.