A few weeks after the fantasy action RPG’s launch, free additions are still rolling in for gamers playing The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt on any platform. Last week, players saw the release of a new quest (Scavenger Hunt: Wolf School Gear) and an alternative look for Triss. If gamers missed that release during the chaos of E3, they can download the update now and jump into the new quest....
The Witcher is a Netflix Original series that premiered on December 20th, 2019 and is based on the popular Polish novel series of the same name. With the franchise being spread across so many different artistic mediums, an interview was conducted with the author of the original Witcher novels, Andrzej Sapkowski. RELATED: The Witcher Writer Explains Big Change from the Books When asked about the video game adaptations, Sapkowski stated that he was the wrong person to ask about games of any kind, since he has only ever played bridge and poker....
The outfit is based off of The Witcher 3’s design of Geralt, which includes his School of the Wolf amulet and both his steel and silver sword. The armor in particular is modeled after the Viper armor set from in-game. For those unaware, the Viper set is one of five Witcher armor sets that players can craft after completing its associated quest. Unlike the other sets, however, the Viper armor also shares the same visual design as Geralt’s default armor from the start of the game....
Gwent proved to be so popular that CD Projekt Red made an online card game of the same name back in 2018. Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is more complex than the minigame of The Witcher 3, as the latter could be cheesed fairly easily by spamming Spy cards that could fill one player’s hand at the sacrifice of some power. The standalone game still proves to be popular, with a new expansion releasing for Gwent earlier this year....
Having Geralt and Yennefer finally together seemed like it would give The Witcher Netflix series a more cohesive plot, but by the end of this episode, they’re pulled apart again. The Witcher Episode 6: Rare Species continues the show’s general downward trend, but not just because of Geralt and Yennefer splitting up. It’s yet another episode bludgeoned with silly dialogue and a “monster of the week” feel that gives the show a tone more akin to the Kevin Sorbo Hercules show than the Game of Thrones that it’s otherwise clearly trying to emulate with its gore and near-constant nudity....
The Witcher is the new series from Netflix following the journey of Geralt of Rivia and his exploits. It is based on the books of the same name written by the Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series lands in the Fantasy genre, and Star Wars falls in the Science Fiction genre. These genres are closely related and the release of the movie at the same time as the show could have impacted the show negatively, being from such closely related genres....
Hissrich spoke about a deleted scene from Episode 3: Betrayer Moon, that dealt with the transformation the sorceresses undergo at graduation. She described the scene in an interview with Pure Fandom: “We had a lovely scene in Episode 103 where Yennefer, Fringilla, and Sabrina all discussed how they felt about their transformations, and looking back, I wish we could have kept it. It was such a gorgeous example of female friendship, and it also would have served to ground Fringilla a bit more before she joined Nilfgaard....
The U.S. and others should take a page from the historic bipartisan efforts on behalf of Soviet Jewry a generation ago that successfully pressured another communist, atheistic power—the Soviet Union—to back down from its crushing repression of 3 million Jewish citizens while simultaneously negotiating trade deals and pursuing nuclear disarmament. At the outset of 2021, few Americans understand the disturbing degree to which Christians and Uighur Muslims in China are persecuted and how Beijing’s ongoing assault on these communities constitutes one of the primary human rights tragedies taking place today....
The International UFO Museum, Roswell, New Mexico Just one state over from the better-known Area 51 in Nevada is The International UFO Museum. Located at the site of a reported 1947 UFO sighting, this is the perfect stop for those looking to explore the extraordinary with updated information on all things otherworldly. Museum of the Mummies of Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico Not for the squeamish, this museum preserves and displays in glass cases the bodies of the deceased from the surrounding area whose relatives were no longer able to pay a grave tax....
Recently, Microsoft and Xbox announced and quickly walked back some changes that were coming to Xbox Live Gold subscriptions. Initially announced last Friday, Xbox Live Gold was going to increase each subscription tier nominally: monthly would rise by $1, three months would rise by $5, and six months would jump up to $20. However, as a result of significant outcry from fans, Microsoft did the unexpected: Not only did the company walk back the Xbox Live Gold changes entirely, but the company also doubled-down by not requiring Gold for free-to-play games....
MORE: Messi ties UCL goal record | Trial date set for Solo | Hottest soccer WAGs “In terms of legacy, there is a strong commitment to having a carbon-neutral FIFA World Cup, especially through the utilisation of environmentally friendly cooling technologies.” It turns out the entire idea of cooling outdoor stadiums in a desert summer with average high temperatures of 106 degrees (and a record high of 120) with technology that would delight both the Sierra Club and the American Outlaws – well, that was as fantastic as Gene Roddenberry’s United Federation of Planets....
That might be hard to believe after another dismal showing by the Blueshirts, this time a 4-1 home-ice loss to the San Jose Sharks that dropped their record to 2-6-2 out of the gate. Yet again, the Rangers surrendered a goal on the first shot against (third time this season that’s happened) and Henrik Lundqvist did not make things better when he allowed a bad-angle softie to Tim Heed midway through the first period or misplayed a puck behind his net for a Sharks gimme that made it 4-0 early in the third period....
Scientists writing in Limnology and Oceanography Letters estimate the true number of microplastics per cubic meter is 8.3 million—not ten as previously stated. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, developed a new method of counting plastic. It shows more traditional methods may be missing some of the smaller microplastics, with the effect of underestimating the degree to which plastic is contaminating the world’s oceans. These traditional methods involve trawling a mesh net below water....
But this isn’t a game show, this is college football — and the bonuses coaches can earn as the regular season winds down, according to USA Today . Of note, “The Game” not only has College Football Playoff ramifications, but also puts big-money bonuses in play. MORE: Big recruiting visits planned for Rivalry Week With a win over Ohio State, Michigan’s Jim Harbaugh would get a $125,000 bonus for reaching the Big Ten championship....
[HTML2] Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead has taken gamers on a long road with plenty of emotional battering along the way, and the second season of the acclaimed choice-and-consequence series will conclude this month in episode 5, ‘No Going Back.’ Between the cold, Rebecca’s newborn baby and the tightly wound frustrations of the group, it’s safe to say that the final chapter won’t be an easy ride for poor Clementine....
Specifically, let’s talk about video game stories. Anyone who’s taken a basic creative writing course is familiar with traditional story structure: the introduction, the inciting incident, the rising action, a climax, and a denouement. With regard to folklore, it’s called the Hero’s Journey; in film, they call it the three-act structure. The terminology might be different depending on who’s talking, but everyone’s describing the same thing. It’s just basic storytelling....
The affair between the NHL and the young right wing played out more like a summer fling than a marriage, with infrequent periods of promise that eventually proved to be more exhaustive than they were exciting. At this point, Yakupov’s zenith as an NHL player was his rookie season in 2012-13 in which he scored 31 points within a strike-shortened 48-game schedule, and his 350 games played are the least of any inactive forward picked first overall since the draft was instituted in 1963....
The study was a small one, but the authors stated that there was a “significantly higher” requirement for pain medication in the redheads. Now, keep in mind that this study pertains to true redheads, not brunettes with auburn highlights, but the natural “gingers” of the world and hair dye certainly doesn’t change one’s pain tolerance. Managing Pain Is More Challenging for Natural Redheads The study states not that redheads have more pain, but that more pain medication is required to control the pain they do have....
Freedom House’s Freedom in the World 2021 report marked a 15th consecutive year of decline in global freedom. Many countries where freedom has declined, such as Turkey and Belarus, are in Europe’s immediate vicinity; others, such as Hungary, are even members of NATO and the EU. Kleptocracy, bribery and illicit finance have been leading causes of this democratic deterioration. According to the German Marshall Fund, authoritarian regimes have “spent more than $300 million interfering in democratic processes more than 100 times and spanning 33 countries in the past decade....
