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  • All the Latest Buzz About “The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt”

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    The Witcher series has just about everything I love to see in video games: vivid characters, engaging stories, a variety of gorgeous settings, more than one possible ending, and the ability to make decisions that matter. The combat may be the only thing I don’t adore, but it’s getting an interesting overhaul in The Witcher 3: Wild…

  • “The Witcher” Series: Reading vs. Playing

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    In the 1990’s, Andrzej Sapkowski published short stories and novels set in an original fantasy setting. These center on Geralt of Rivia, a witcher who wields magic and hunts monsters. But I played The Witcher video games — well, the second one, anyway — before I ever read Sapkowski’s books. It’s only in recent months that I’ve…

  • Getting Lost in Open-World Games

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    Some people love exploring open-world video games. They even love getting lost. But some of my most hopeless Skyrim rage quits have involved me wandering around some mountain with trolls attacking me, unable to scramble up the hillside to meet my destination marker. And to me, tumbling down the mountainside — or seeing my poor horse take…