Casting should begin “soon” for Netflix’s serialized adaptation of The Witcher, and showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich says she’s taking special precautions to keep story spoilers from making their way online. The Witcher series is set to debut with eight episodes sometime in 2020, and since its announcement, Hissrich has kept fans up to date on the pre-production process via Twitter. Friday night, she tweeted a picture of a fanned stack of scripts, one for Geralt, one for Yennefer, and one for Jaskier - a character English-speaking players may know better as Dandelion. “Casting is starting soon, and no, I can’t tell you who our top picks are so don’t ask,” Hissrich tweeted. “But. There is something very important you need to know.” While you wait for new adventures for Geralt and friends, check out our list of the best RPGs available on PC. Hissrich explained that during casting, actors will usually audition by reading their … [Read more...] about The Witcher Netflix series set to begin casting, and will use a spoiler-free process
Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition will be a significant, and free, upgrade for PC players
Divinity: Original Sin 2 is already a very good game - easily one of last year’s best, and in the running for any shortlist of RPGs. Never ones to sit on their laurels, Larian Studios has made significant improvements to Original Sin 2 to prepare for the game’s console release, and just about all of them will benefit PC players. The Definitive Edition will launch August 31st, and it’ll be a free update for everyone who owns Divinity: Original Sin on PC. In a recent Kickstarter update post, Larian have provided some details on what that includes, and it’s a substantial list. Divinity: Original Sin 2 is on our list of the best RPGs on PC. For one thing, they’re making the experience a little more welcoming to RPG newcomers by reworking the tutorial and explaining more of the game’s core concepts. They’ve also added a Story Mode, which de-prioritizes combat by making it more forgiving than the existing Explorer Mode and lets players focus entirely … [Read more...] about Divinity: Original Sin 2 Definitive Edition will be a significant, and free, upgrade for PC players
Assassin Creed Odyssey’s Female Protagonist Is Canon
Ubisoft has been generous with details about Assassin’s Creed Odyssey since its reveal at E3 2018, releasing screenshots, trailers, and gameplay showing off the new dialogue and RPG elements. Now, more details have been released via a Reddit AMA with Johnathan Dumont, the game’s Creative Director, including which character will be canon within the franchise’s lore. When asked if there would be a definitive, canon story, Dumont confirmed that Kassandra would, in fact, be the canon option, stating, “Yes there will be a canon represented in the novel. It features Kassandra and her journey.” Dumont went on to acknowledge that despite Kassandra’s storyline being canon, players will still have full control over their path and that “there is no right or wrong way” to play the game.It’s rare for an Assassin’s Creed game to feature a female in a lead role, with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate being the only main … [Read more...] about Assassin Creed Odyssey’s Female Protagonist Is Canon
Fortnite Dev Sues Leaker for Spoiling Comet Strike Surprise
A few months ago, an insider posted on Reddit claiming that Fortnite‘s season 4 meteor strike was aimed at Dusty Depot, not the then-rumored Tilted Towers. Of course, when the comets began to fall, it was revealed that Dusty Depot was actually the target and turned the area into the Dusty Divot. Now, Epic Games has filed a lawsuit against Thomas Hannah, a quality assurance contractor it blames for the leak of information. Allegedly, Hannah worked with a third party to leak the information Fortnite considered extremely sensitive. The third party Hannah is accused of providing with the meteor secret and the superhero theme posted them to the subreddit after a discussion with Hannah that violated his non-disclosure agreement. Notably, however, the third party is not named in the lawsuit.To Epic’s accusations, Hannah replied that he was pumped with a “series of questions and guesses regarding where the meteor would hit” by the third party at … [Read more...] about Fortnite Dev Sues Leaker for Spoiling Comet Strike Surprise
Imagining World of Warcraft in Jerusalem
At some point in 2007, I become hopelessly addicted to World of Warcraft. I was 24 years old, finishing art school, severely depressed and dealing with the fact that my life was just not going the way I expected. Somewhere around that time, during a drunken few hours in a restaurant in downtown Jerusalem, a friend and I created JarWow - a mod of World of Warcraft that translates the mechanics, races and areas of the game to early 21st century Jerusalem. Jerusalem seemed like a perfect stage for a complex MMO, with two culturally different factions in a bitter territory dispute. Conversely, World of Warcraft, which relies on simplification and stereotypes, cannot truly represent the complexity of modern Jerusalem. I moved to Jerusalem in 1993, when I was nine years old; I left in 2009 when I was 26. The Oslo accords, a set of agreements made by Israel and Palestine which started the peace process, had just been signed in 1993, and while Jerusalem will never be entirely calm, there was … [Read more...] about Imagining World of Warcraft in Jerusalem