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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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