This year’s ‘COD Next’ served up everything wrong with Call of Duty: Nonstop ads, manufactured hype, and a stagnant game

MORGAN PARK, STAFF WRITER (Image credit: Future) Last week: Played an irresponsible amount of Megabonk. As cameras panned around the Las Vegas venue of COD Next, I tried and failed to identify anything real. There were the LED walls, which flanked attendees on all sides with larger-than-life Call of Duty logos. There were the hosts,…

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The Witcher author Andrzej Sapkowski says one of CD Projekt’s big story points is actually based on a mistake, but ‘videogame people have clung to the idea with remarkable tenacity’

The first tease for The Witcher 4, back in 2022, was nothing but an image of a snow-covered Witcher medallion—but not a wolf. That led to an immediate question: Which school did it represent? There are several in the world of The Witcher, after all: Geralt’s School of the Wolf is the one we know…

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