The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

How to watch WitcherCon this week

To call the 10-second Witcher season 2 video that Netflix showed in mid-June a "trailer" is generous, but at least we found out when we'd see more: WitcherCon...
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WitcherCon schedule includes pun-tastic pub quiz, Henry Cavill

When WitcherCon was first announced last month, I very much thought it would be some silly thing to capitalise on the success of Netflix's The Witcher series (and, I mean, it still kinda is). But now the full schedule has been revealed, it actually sounds like a pretty good time. On the 9th and 10th of July, the virtual Witcher-themed event will hold panels with the likes of Henry Cavill, chatting about deep lore, trivia, quizzes and updates on the upcoming Witcher TV shows.

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The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf heads up Netflix's upcoming anime plans

Way back in January last year, we reported that Netflix had even more content on the way based on The Witcher universe, inspired by the novels of Andrzej Sapkowski. We've heard almost nothing about it since then, but now Netflix has revealed that the animation - which is called The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf - will take centre stage in the streaming platform's line-up of upcoming 'anime'.

Variety reports that Netflix has outlined a selection of original animated projects it's got coming up during a panel at this year's Annecy Film Festival, with The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf leading the pack (pardon the pun). As we already knew, this animation will centre not on the most famous witcher of all, Geralt of Rivia, but instead his seasoned mentor Vesemir, who appears in both the first and third Witcher RPG games.

New details reveal that the plot will focus on the Wolf School witcher as younger man, who will have to confront a crisis of conscience when some kind of power poses a threat to his world, the Continent. He'll have to take a long, hard look at what he does for a living and why he does it.

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What if: CD Projekt Red remade The Witcher 1?

The first Witcher game is peculiar. It's clunky even by 2007 standards, with strange, point-and-click combat, shallow characters and dialogue, and very little shared DNA with its more successful sequels.

I played The Witcher for the first time last year (thank you, pandemic backlog). While the combat is jarring, there's plenty of promise in its story. With a generous dose of TLC to bring it up to the standards of a modern game, it would make for a great adventure, especially for the 50 million-odd Witcher fans who haven't had a major new game to play in this influential series since 2016. This got me thinking - what if CD Projekt Red did exactly that? How would a Witcher 1 remake look in 2021?

The plot can stay. When everything else threatened to bog the game down, the narrative and worldbuilding powered me through to the end credits. Long story short, Kaer Morhen is pillaged by a group called the Salamandra, who steal its witcher-making secrets, so Geralt - who's suffering from amnesia - and his pals split up to track them down.