The Witcher 3 ‘is not untouchable,’ story director says of changes in the upcoming remaster: ‘I still find some places that I think maybe nowadays, I would do it differently’

The Witcher 3 is the perfect videogame. Is that hyperbolic? Maybe a bit. But it’s unquestionably one of the greatest RPGs of all time, a game that arrived with a 92% review score and somehow got better through years of fixes, upgrades, and expansions, the last of which provided a perfectly satisfying conclusion to the…

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If you need proof The Witcher 3’s new expansion is in safe hands, its lead writer literally wrote her thesis on Hearts of Stone: ‘To probably prove to some of my professors that games are worthy’

If you need evidence that the team behind The Witcher 3’s upcoming expansion, Songs of the Past, is composed of Bonafide Witcher Sickos, try this: the expansion’s lead writer wrote her bachelor’s thesis on Hearts of Stone almost a decade ago. Fool’s Theory’s Paula Mejsner took a comparative literature scalpel to The Witcher 3’s first…

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No, AI, you are not human: Microsoft’s code of practice for artificial intelligence actually gives me some hope for the industry

Believe it or not, I don’t actually like to be all doom and gloom about new technologies like AI—it’s just that’s what the world keeps handing me. So I’ll be damned if I don’t take the time to report on something actually positive about it when I can, and I’m hesitantly optimistic that Microsoft’s newly-published…

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The Witcher 3’s story director says an ideal quest is ‘constructed in such a way that the player puts the controller away, stands up, and starts walking’

The Witcher 3, being one of the best RPGs of its era, naturally has a lot of very good quests—quests with weighty, significant choices that give you pause to think. In speaking with PC Gamer’s Joshua Wolens, story director Marcin Blacha says that pause is a sign that he and his team have done something…

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Serial numbers on RTX Founders Edition graphics cards, including PC Gamer’s very own, are fading and apparently it’s causing a problem with RMA requests

As GPUs continue to increase in price, it also, of course, becomes increasingly important to feel that those purchases are secure from leaving you with a very expensive paperweight. This is doubly so for the RTX 5090, which now costs upwards of $5,000. Given this, it’s important that RMAs go smoothly, but judging by recent…

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The best Total War game is getting a remaster with 50 newly playable factions, modern visuals, and a full Japanese voiceover

Total War fans are eating good recently. Lovers of fantasy have the Lords of the End Times DLC for Total War: Warhammer inbound, historical fans have Medieval 3 on the distant horizon, and even enjoyers of grim dark sci-fi have Total War: Warhammer 40k likely dropping next year. Well, it gets even better. Today, Creative…

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CDPR wants to make The Witcher 3 Remastered feel like any other game released today: ‘It’s so easy to get used to these new improvements that it’s hard to go back’

As if September wasn’t busy enough, The Witcher 3 is calling us again. CDPR’s remaster will be launching as a free update on September 29. The studio’s goal with this new version is to make it feel like a 2026 game, rather than a 2015 game that’s been dusted off. And while this is the…

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Blizzard finally told players where the big sword in WoW went after 8 years, and I’m just bummed out a reveal this cool was in an interview somewhere

It’s been a meme for eight years—where’s the sword, Blizzard? At the end of World of Warcraft: Legion, the big bad Sargeras tried to punch a big, corruptive sword into the heart of Azeroth. For years—eight years and nine months, to be exact—it’s been a big, hanging question mark over the game’s lore. Especially given…

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