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Olympic gold medalist gets welcomed home with Russian version of 'Toss a Coin to your Witcher'

Russian Olympic sports shooter Vitalina Batsarashkina was a recent hit on social media in part due to her cool stance, but the gamers™ took a particular interest in the 24 year-old due to her wearing Witcher-themed shooting frames and a Witcher medallion, something she also did when she won Olympic silver in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. Now, people in Batsarashkina's home of Omsk have taken notice, too—the above video, which translates to "A touching meeting of Vitalina Batsarashkina in Omsk" shows the gold medallist arriving home to a very enthusiastic rendition of 'Toss a Coin to your Witcher', the song bard Jaskier sings during his first meeting with Geralt in the Netflix TV series. There's even a choir...
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PUBG studio is reportedly making a fantasy game that sounds like a Korean Witcher-like

Update - July 29, 2021: Krafton has offered comment on its 'Project Windless'

Krafton has told us that, "while [it] obviously admire[s] the multimedia success of The Witcher, it was actually select members of the media" who made the comparison between the studio's novel-inspired multimedia franchise to The Witcher. The studio also says that "The Bird That Drinks Tears is an amazing IP that features in-depth lore and an incredible new world," and that it "see[s] immense value and untapped potential in the IP, and there is ample opportunity to expand that IP through a variety of mediums - not just games". However, it still sounds like the multimedia project could still have appeal in a similar vein to The Witcher series based on what's been revealed so far. Original story follows.

Earlier this year, PUBG developer and publisher Krafton announced it was going to be expanding a Korean fantasy novel called The Bird That Drinks Tears into a "multimedia franchise", bringing renowned Hollywood concept artist Iain McCaig on board to help bring it to life. Beyond this, nothing was known about what the studio was cooking up other than its codename 'Project Windless', but now it looks like Krafton's got a fantasy game in the works that's reportedly like a "Korean Witcher".

PUBG dataminer PlayerIGN has been reporting on a Krafton press conference held today - and in the South Korean language, it seems - on Twitter, and one of the topics that seems to have been covered is this fantasy novel-inspired IP.

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Henry Cavill interrupts The Witcher chat to remind us he's a Warhammer geek too

Henry Cavill is best known as either Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's The Witcher TV series or as Superman in DC movies such as Batman V Superman, but to many fans he's also known as a massive geek - as illustrated at WitcherCon this week, where Cavill interrupted an interview to drop a nerdy Warhammer 40K reference.

The WitcherCon interview with MTV news correspondent Josh Horowitz mostly covered season two of The Witcher show on Netflix, which got revealed for a December release alongside most of the episode titles and a new trailer. The interview is a proper in-depth chat with Henry Cavill and lasts around 45 minutes, and is well worth a watch as Cavill is amusing throughout.

However, towards the end of the interview, Cavill drops the Witcher stuff and admits that there's something he's been "dying to say" about the set photo behind them. Cavill admits he's been "grinding his teeth" every day on this set because there weren't any other Warhammer fans around to get the reference he wanted to make.

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This $250 Geralt statue sure is a look

Netflix is now offering pre-orders for a 10.6-inch tall resin Geralt statue that depicts one of the first moments from its Witcher show, in which Geralt fights and defeats a kikimora. The statue is based on art by illustrator Tracy Tubera, and just 350 have been made...
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The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade will include free DLC from the Netflix series

The Witcher 3's next-gen upgrade is coming out later this year, and along with the updated visuals and possibly some popular mods, the 'Complete Edition' will include a few nods to the popular Witcher Netflix series.

Announced at 'WitcherCon', The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Complete Edition will be coming to digital shelves later this year, and as we've already learned, it's a free upgrade for anyone who already owns the excellent RPG game. Developer CD Projekt Red revealed some updated cover art in a tweet today, and hinted that it's prepared "some free DLCs" that are inspired by the Netflix series, which wrapped up filming its second season earlier this year.

So what might that DLC contain? That's an open question until CD Projekt Red decides to share more information about the Complete Edition. Could it be a set of that weird wrinkly Nilfgaard armour people complained about in season one? Maybe the various weapons Henry Cavill flings around in the Butcher of Blaviken scene in the first episode?

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