The Witcher’s Geralt Teased As Cameo In Another Game Releasing In 2018

The Witcher protagonist Geralt of Rivia could cameo in another game being released in 2018, according to a tease from CD Projekt RED community lead Marcin Momot, who hinted at the possibility on Twitter.

He asked: “What if Geralt was going to step out of [The Witcher] for the very first time to make an appearance in one of the upcoming games later this year?” Of course, this isn’t confirmation, but it’d be quite the bait for him to mention it only for it not to happen.

There are some interesting possibilities for where Geralt could appear, but one that immediately sticks out is Bandai Namco’s SoulCalibur VI, which is expected to launch later this year. Bandai Namco has a working relationship with CD Projekt Red, having distributed The Witcher 3 in Europe and The Witcher 2 in Australia.

The SoulCalibur series has previously included guest characters from a wide-range of franchises, including Star Wars and The Legend of Zelda, so Geralt wouldn’t exactly feel out of place in the arena-based fighting game. There are other games that he’s well suited to, most notably Monster Hunter: World or the PC release of Final Fantasy XV.

Following the huge success of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, CD Projekt Red has moved on to working on its next title, CyberPunk 2077. There’s been very little news about the title since it was originally announced in 2012, but CD Projekt Red has confirmed it will be attending E3 2018, sparking speculation that the game will be shown there.

Although platforms for Cyberpunk 2077 have not yet been announced, the studio has said it will “probably” come to Xbox One, PS4, and PC. While you wait for news about Cyberpunk 2077, you can check out GameSpot’s feature on “Why Cyberpunk 2077 Is So Important To The Genre And Modern Society.”

Fortnite Beats PUBG as Most-Watched Twitch Game

Fortnite is now the most-watched game on Twitch, with a daily average viewership double that of PUBG.

Fortnite Intel reports that based on stats from the past 14 days – with data gathered from SullyGnome – Fortnite streams on Twitch have been watched for an equivalent of 4,882 years, 208 days, beating Twitch’s traditional king League of Legends’ 4,564 years, 190 days.

It’s also the most-streamed game over the same period, with its 246 years, 231 days beating PUBG’s 106 years, 194 days.

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Rainbow Six Siege: No ETA on Fix for Purchase Issues

Rainbow Six Siege players on multiple platforms are currently unable to spend in-game currency on new items or operators, and Ubisoft doesn’t know when the issue will be fixed.

Reports of the problem – which sees the game failing to complete purchases with either earned currency Renown or paid-for R6 Credits – began yesterday, and have continued since.

Reports have come in of the problem occurring on Xbox One, PS4 and PC – we’ve confirmed that the problem is ongoing on PS4.

Ubisoft representatives have confirmed that they’re looking into the problem, but a post on the Rainbow Six Siege Official Forum says, “Unfortunately we do not have an ETA at the moment.”

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What It Was Like to Live Through That Oscars Wrinkle in Time Screening

Host Jimmy Kimmel pulled off an epic stunt during the 90th annual Academy Awards when he and a crowd of Hollywood’s biggest stars — including Gal Gadot, Guillermo del Toro, Mark Hamill, Lupita Nyong’o and Lin-Manuel Miranda — took a break from the Oscars and headed next door to crash a screening of Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time at the TLC Chinese Theaters. The stunt might have been a surprise to Oscar viewers, but no one was more shocked by the way the events unfolded than the unsuspecting audience watching the movie. Here’s what it was like to be sitting in the front row.

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Black Panther Cracks the Top 10 Domestic Grossing Movies of All Time

With Black Panther crossing the $500 million mark this weekend at the domestic box office, it joins a select group of films to push past that milestone.

All top 10 highest grossing films domestically have made over $500 million, with Black Panther being the latest to cross this mark. Find out where it falls — and what the rest of the top 10 is — in the gallery below.

The top 10 films and their unadjusted domestic grosses:

  1. Star Wars: The Force Awakens — $936,662,225
  2. Avatar — $760,507,625
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special Is a ‘Love Letter’ to the Franchise

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special will celebrate 25 years of Saban’s Power Rangers.

A Boom! Studios press release reveals the oversized anniversary special comic will feature standalone stories of fan favourite Ranger teams including the original team, which debuted back in 1993.

Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special Main Cover by Steve Morris Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Anniversary Special Main Cover by Steve Morris

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Rainbow Six Siege Doubling Down on Banning Racist, Homophobic Language

Rainbow Six Siege is making changes to the systems in place to ban those using racist and homophobic language, as well as other hate speech, in game.

A Reddit post details the punishments, ranging from 2 days to permanent bans, which will be applied case-by-case depending on the severity of the infraction.

The post states the language taken action against is explained in the games Code of Conduct to be “Any language or content deemed illegal, dangerous, threatening, abusive, obscene, vulgar, defamatory, hateful, racist, sexist, ethically offensive or constituting harassment is forbidden.”

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The Best Of OCE Esports From The Past Week!

Some epic highlights from the world of esports this week! Overseas, IEM Katowice thrilled fans of Counter-Strike as Order did their best and Athletico repped Oceania at our first international PUBG tournament. Back home Mindfreak reasserted their dominance after a strong Six Invitational, the OPL saw ORDER and the Dire Wolves battle in spectacular fashion and the A-League E-League continued to provide FIFA fans with surprisingly close match-ups.

Be sure to head over and check out the rest of the esports hub! This week we’re hanging out for the Halo World Championships Qualifiers! Remember you can email tips to me [email protected] or you can just click to send me an email. If you want, you can tweet suggestions at me as well, my twitter is down the bottom of this article.

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