Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Video Shines The Spotlight on Monsters

CD Projekt Red has released a new developer diary delving into the creative process behind designing the fantastical creatures of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.

In the video, which you can watch below, character artist Bill Daly discusses balancing fantasy with reality in creating the game’s monsters.

Senior gameplay designer Damien Monnier, meanwhile, provides an overview of the process by which players track these monsters, while lead animator Jamie Bury details all the tools at Geralt’s disposal for fighting enemies.

The video also shines a spotlight on a few of the game's monsters, including the airborne Harpies and the swamp-dwelling Drowners, as well the complex ecosystem Geralt and the monsters exist within.

Following a three-month delay, The Witcher 3 release date has been confirmed as May 19. Nvidia has announced it will be bundling free copies of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Batman: Arkham Knight with new purchases of its GeForce GTX 980 and GTX 970 graphics cards.

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Portal, Jurassic Park, The Simpsons Coming to LEGO Dimensions

LEGO Dimensions, the upcoming Skylanders-style toys-to-life game from Warner Bros., already has an impressive lineup of franchises, including Lord of the Rings, Batman, Back to the Future, and Wizard of Oz. But now, new playsets have been revealed based on other popular series, including Portal, Jurassic Park, The Simpsons, and Scooby Doo.

That's according to Walmart listings that have now been removed, but not before LEGO fansite Brick Enquirer saw them. According to the site, LEGO Dimensions will offer Team Packs based on Jurassic World and Scooby Doo, while Level Packs for The Simpsons and Portal will be available.

Team Packs ($15) come with plastic toys only, while Level Packs ($30) offer the toys and in-game content. The LEGO Dimensions Starter Pack, meanwhile, costs $100 and comes with the game, a Toy Pad (similar to the Portal of Power from Skylanders), three minifigures (Gandalf, Batman, Wyldstyle), and a Batmobile toy.

LEGO Dimensions was announced last month. It launches in September for Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Wii U.

The game joins the growing toys-to-life category, following Skylanders, Disney Infinity, and Amiibo. Activision's Skylanders series, the first toys-to-life game, is the biggest of the bunch, with more than 240 million toys sold far, driving more than $3 billion in lifetime revenue. Activision isn't the only one seeing success, however, as demand for Nintendo's Amiibo toys has been incredibly strong.

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Rockets, flirting and bruised egos on Steam Early Access

Steam launched its Early Access program in 2013, allowing developers to publish and sell incomplete, in-progress builds of their games on the internet's largest digital distribution hub. And publish they did -- by May 2014, more games had launched on Steam that year than in all of 2013, partially thanks to Early Access. This contributed to the gaming industry's ongoing digital revolution, where publishers shifted away from shipping physical products, indies were on the rise and Kickstarter changed how everyday players interacted with game creators. The revolution continues to simmer today and developers, especially independent ones, are still figuring out what to do with all of these new tools -- including Early Access.%Gallery-slideshow284498%
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