The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt News

This Witcher 2 mod lets Geralt and Yennefer get married in a series epilogue

Regardless of what happens in the rest of The Witcher games, one modder has decided Geralt and Yennefer will get a happy ending. This mod for The Witcher 2 will give an epilogue to the whole series, that lets Geralt of Rivia settle down, once and for all.

Called The Witcher: Farewell of the White Wolf, the mod acts as a piece of story DLC, with three days of questing for Geralt and Yennefer's wedding. Friends and guests from through-out the RPG game's storied history will pop in to see the two find a quiet life together. "It tells about a wedding of Geralt of Rivia and Yennefer of Vengerberg, two people destined to each other, who finally found a little peace," the description on Nexus reads. "During three days (and even more than that) of adventures, you're going to see the returns of Geralt's closest friends, unexpected guests, interesting stories, and more than just one romance."

Scripting and development has been going on since 2015, three main developers, Konrad Chlasta, Kamil Leniart, and Patryk Adamkiewicz, working with several other contributors for the translations, music, and design. Six languages are available, and the Nexus page lists some known bugs in case something goes wrong.

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The best RPG games on PC

What are the best RPG games on PC? And yes, we're aware that RPG already stands for role-playing games, but apparently the wider internet isn't. Either way, it's not an easy question to answer, especially given the number of them out there and the hours required to beat them - we're talking 50+ hours most of the time...

Plus, as a stalwart PC genre that came into existence in the '70s, videogame RPGs have changed a lot over the years, with their upgrade trees and rulesets branching out into practically every other genre. Their scale and scope is massive like never before, with tech finally starting to catch up to the ambitions of developers, allowing for huge worlds and entirely new RPG experiences.

The diversity of the RPG nowadays is hard to express. Just in our selection below we've got interplanetary exploration, lightsaber duels, bloodthirsty vampires, irradiated mutants who need to be beaten with golf clubs, lizards who can talk to cats, and a whole lot of dice rolling if that's your jam.

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Henry Cavill offers first look of The Witcher Season 2's Geralt, and a potential plot clue

Fans of pictures of Henry Cavill wearing things, rejoice! The Witcher lead actor recently took some time out from his daily schedule of punching tanks to death with his bare fists and using the wreckage to build gaming PCs for orphans to take to Instagram and offer fans a look at Geralt's outfit for season 2 of the Netflix original series.

The image shows a suitably stoic-looking White Wolf bedecked in studded leather armour. The gear might be as darkly coloured as it looks, or it may just seem dull in comparison to the beams of light emanating from Cavill's magnificent chin. But wait! There's also a bit of a clue to the plot direction Season 2 might be taking.

Cavill also shared a quote alongside the picture, which the actor attributed to "the writings of [Witcher novelist] Andrzej Sapkowski." The excerpt reads as follows: "'It may turn out,' said the white-haired man a moment later, 'that their comrades or cronies may ask what befell these evil men. Tell them the Wolf bit them. The White Wolf. And add that they should keep glancing over their shoulders. One day they'll look back and see the Wolf.'"

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Zelda meets The Witcher 3 and Assassin's Creed: Black Flag in Ocean's Heart

A Zelda-style pixel art action-RPG with monster hunting contracts, conspiratorial pirates, crafting, treasure hunting, and shipfaring? Sign us all the way up. Ocean's Heart is an upcoming PC game from publisher Nordcurrent and developer Max Mraz. So far, it's ticking all the boxes, plus a few more boxes we never knew existed, possibly because those darn sneaky pirates went and buried them. Yarrr.

Chances are, you might already be familiar with developer Max Mraz's previous work. They're the mind behind the gorgeous pixel art and charming Zelda-fication of Bloodborne in Yarntown. Some of that soulsborne DNA may well have carried over, too. One of the creatures in the preview screens is part Witcher 3's leshen, part Bloodborne's cleric beast. Encountering outlandish and inventive creature designs is always a huge joy in pixel art games, and Ocean's Heart looks like it delivers with aplomb.

Protagonist Tilia's adventure will involve travelling the wilderness, taking on monster fighting contracts, discovering powerful artefacts, and, perhaps most intriguingly, unravelling pirate conspiracies. Pirates aren't generally known for their ability to play intricate games of 4D chess, as evidenced by their habit of marking all their secrets with a giant X, so this sounds captivating.

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The Witcher 3 HD rework mod is a "new visual experience"

There's many great The Witcher 3 mods, but one of the most essential is The Witcher 3 HD Reworked Project, a fan-upscale of the RPG game that's gradually overhauled the entire Continent. After nearly five years, the large-scale mod is complete, creating a "new visual experience" for Geralt's exploits.

Nothing specific is listed by creator Halk Hogan in the improvements for the latest version, 12.0, rather, it looks like a fine-tuning and last lick of paint on everything that's been done so far. A release preview, which you can watch below, shows some of the new texture and environment work, and it's night and day in some instances. Overgrown foliage has a little more life to it, old buildings look a bit more worn down and lived-in, leather and armour truer to the real-life equivalents.

Most of this is minor details, adjusting the lighting and improving the shading, but when you make enough of those tweaks, they add up. Even just from these stills, the action-adventure game has an added vibrancy to it. The Witcher 3 isn't exactly old, it only turned five this year, but the look and feel of a game can start to feel past it quickly, and this rework brings it right up to date.

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