Late to the party: The Witcher — A Man Chooses
I should have known The Witcher wasn't going to have a happy ending. It's a dark fantasy world where the greatest threat to the world might not be an evil wizard, but the bigoted resentments of your neighbors. Squalor of every kind is omnipresent, and every good deed seems to go unnoticed.
And still I was surprised as the credits rolled. In the last few minutes of the original Witcher, everything I'd spent the past thirty hours trying to avoid seemed to happen anyway. I'd saved the world, maybe, and then watched it trip headlong into the gutter.
So what was the point of it all? Answering that question made me realize just what a singularly strong start The Witcher was for a new series, and why it holds up as a narrative experience even if the game itself is over the hill.
Payday 2 is holding a Christmas Heist. Join in for free guns and snowy rescues
Payday 2 developer Overkill has got itself all festive and produced a new update for the game that brings the true spirit of the holidays to the heist simulator.
The White Xmas Heist asks you to help rescue Vlad’s brother from his plane wreckage, and secure a few bricks of not-snow white powder before anyone else gets their grubby mitts on them. Oh, there’s a novelty Christmas carol involved, too.
Final Fantasy 13 is finally getting boosted to 1080p with new patch
Final Fantasy 13 finally made its way to the PC last October, but the port wasn’t everything it should have been. Locked at a fuzzy 720p, it was up to modders to release it from its low-resolution prison.
Square Enix have finally got round to rectifying this mistake though, and will next week ship out a patch that upgrades the visuals to HD and beyond.
Paradox’s procedural RPG Runemaster has had development put on ice
Early this year Paradox announced that it would be developing a new fantasy RPG game called Runemaster. Unfortunately work on the project has stumbled, and the dev team have made the decision to “freeze development” of Runemaster.
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