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The Witcher Just Released Three Mesmerizing Posters

Netflix‘s next big original series is none other than The Witcher, which arrives on December 20. Based on the Polish novels by Andrzej Sapkowski, the show will follow the characters Geralt, a witcher who hunts monsters, Yennefer, a powerful sorceress, and Ciri, a child of destiny.

While we’re still a couple weeks away from the release of the show, The Witcher Twitter account released some images from the upcoming series that are mesmerizing. Check them out below.

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Henry Cavill stars as Geralt, who was created by fear, Freya Allan plays Ciri, who was created by prophecy, and Anya Chalotra plays Yennefer, who was created by power. All of these captions allude to each character’s backstory, which we will see in Season 1 of the show.

Because the upcoming Netflix series is based Sapkowski’s works, there is a lot of ground to cover between the characters and the world they inhabit. However, that didn’t sway showrunner Lauren Schmidt Hissrich from tackling this challenge. “To me, there are challenges, and there are opportunities. And this, to me, was such a great opportunity,” Hissrich told GameSpot during a recent interview. “You have all of these short stories presented in the first couple of books, in The Last Wish and in Sword of Destiny. There is no narrative thread between them, so Geralt doesn’t grow and change that much between the stories, because that’s not how they were originally written.”

The Witcher arrives on Netflix on December 20.

Don’t Miss These Hidden Gems on Switch – NVC 486

Welcome to Nintendo Voice Chat! It’s December, and this year’s release schedule is starting to calm down. So, the NVC crew is here to add even more games to your backlog with their discussion on the best hidden gems on Switch that you shouldn’t miss. After that, the panel talks about Link joining Super Mario Maker 2 and the one year anniversary of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Finally, your listener questions are answered yet again on Question Block.

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Pathfinder: Kingmaker Dev Announces New Game In Series

Developer Owlcat Games has announced a new entry in the  Pathfinder series that isn’t quite a sequel to Pathfinder: Kingmaker.

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous is set to be a classic styled CRPG like Kingmaker. It won’t be a direct sequel, but is still based on the tabletop RPG and the developers hope to further explore elements of the previous titles.

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The new Pathfinder will feature new systems like mythic progression, which in the tabletop games allows characters to become powerful enough to change the fate of entire regions by following a mythic path and gaining mythic abilities. It’s also adding more classes such as witch and oracle character customisation options, and a new setting in the Age of Lost Omens.

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No Time To Die: Everything We Know About The New James Bond Movie

By the time the next Bond movie, No Time To Die, hits theaters, fans will have had the longest wait between 007 movies since Daniel Craig took over the role in 2006. Spectre was released in 2015, and since then, the follow-up has gone through the uncertainty of who will play Bond, a change of directors, multiple writers, and a delayed release date. But finally the movie arrives in April next year.

No Time To Die is the 25th movie in the long-running series which kicked off in 1962 with Dr. No. It’s the fifth time that Craig has played the iconic British superspy, and for many younger fans, he IS James Bond, as it’s now 17 years since previous Bond star Pierce Brosnan departed the role. While the more recent films in the series have followed much of the formula, they’ve also departed from it in numerous ways too. Craig’s movies are more personal, with Bond’s family history and tortured romantic life playing a bigger part in the storylines. There’s more of a consistent narrative between the films than there was with previous Bonds, and much of the action is more grounded, with the Jason Bourne movies a clear influence on them. No invisible cars or jetpacks here!

But they’re still Bond movies, with the girls, gadgets, and insane villains that fans have come to expect, and there’s no reason to think that No Time To Die won’t deliver on that front. When Danny Boyle was initially hired to direct, there were rumors that he would take the series in a more surprising direction. But his departure and the hiring of regular series writers Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who have worked on every Bond movie since 1999’s The World Is Not Enough), suggests that it’ll be business as usual. Nevertheless, with an exciting director in Cary Joji Fukunaga, additional script work from Killing Eve’s Phoebe Waller-Bridge, and the first female 00 agent, there’s much to be hopeful for. So while we wait for Bond’s next mission, here’s everything we know to date about No Time To Die…

Destiny 2’s Eververse Store Gets Much Better Next Season

Destiny 2‘s Eververse store has always been a contentious thing among fans, as is to be expected from a microtransaction-based store. With the launch of the upcoming Season of the Dawn update, Bungie is making some welcome changes based on player feedback.

In the latest This Week at Bungie blog post, a number of changes to Eververse are outlined. It starts out by acknowledging that certain items will still remain only purchasable with Silver–a premium currency acquired only with real-world money–as opposed to Bright Dust, which is obtainable by simply playing the game. “Offering some amount of Eververse content for Silver only is part of ensuring we are able to fund our ability to keep creating and maintaining Destiny and supporting the team that makes Destiny,” it explained.

However, Bungie is shifting the proportion of content that is Silver-exclusive. Whereas it says the current season has about 50% of its content also sold for Bright Dust, Season of the Dawn will see that figure increase to 80%. That means that only around a fifth of what’s sold on Eververse will require you to plunk down real-world money to acquire it.

In another improvement, Bungie is also going to be clearer about which items you’ll be able to purchase with Bright Dust. In the past, players have been left to guess whether they would eventually be able to purchase a given Eververse item using Bright Dust as part of the weekly inventory rotation. Going forward, it will announce on social media which items in the weekly refresh will only be sold for Silver. That way, you can confidently purchase something you’re interested in right away without having to worry about buyer’s remorse later in the season.

Additionally, Eververse will no longer allow you to buy anything you already own. In the past, you’d have to either remember or consult your in-game Collection menu to verify if you owned, say, a given shader being sold on the store.

The blog post also notes some changes to how Bright Dust is awarded. Completing Dawning weekly (200 Bright Dust) and repeatable (10) bounties will grant you just as much as Strike, Crucible, and Gambit bounties. The same will be true for Crimson Days once the Valentine’s Day-themed event arrives.

“We’re committed to continually and thoughtfully adjusting the Eververse store to ensure it’s a balanced and optional part of the Destiny player experience while also ensuring that we can support the team creating and evolving Destiny,” Bungie said. “Please keep the feedback coming, and thanks for all you do to support the team.”

These are just some of the many changes outlined the blog post, which previews the patch notes that are to come with next week’s Season of the Dawn update. That patch will bring not just a variety of new playable content (and sparrows on Mercury!), but changes to each of the three playable classes, some nice changes to Gunsmith and Crucible bounties, and much more.

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