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May 5th. Two weeks before The Witcher III hits the shelves! That's a nice target (if you're a gamer). Just to throw an ot into the works (And congrats on not having cancer, Sam. I got lucky and my first...and hopefully only...dance with the big C was in the prostate, and it was caught early enough for surgery. 1 year with a 0.0 PSA, only nine years to go), anyone who likes crpg's should check out the videos they have released...including the 35 minute playthrough. This is the last Witcher game they are doing (it was meant as a trilogy), and they have pulled out all the stops. The game footprint on the PC is going to be 50gigs. The largest city in the game has 2,000 npcs with their own schedules. And it is open world (no more invisible walls) and dream mechanics such as swimming, climbing, sailing, etc. Basically, take everything that Bethsoft tried to do in 95 with Daggerfall, move it to modern HD capable hardware and 64 bit address busses. There are three seperate endings, and your ingame actions affects what other quests become available, or how they play out. And if you are into the series, the devs claim you can import your game conditions from Witcher II and pick up where you left off (and bless them, they learned from II, and the interface is less I-dumb and more classical, like the first game). PC and PS4 both run it 1080; they're still optimizing for Xbox-1. It's only at 990. Just remember its for big kids who don't mind blood and guts and boobs and such..... CD Project Red also plans a bunch of free dlc; if they charge, it would be for something big, like adding a new area to the already massive world. Personally, I'd love to see that game hit 100 gigs of footprint. The world shown in the demo play was large enough that a trip from the port city to the southern swamps would have taken 15-20 real-time minutes on a horse at full gallop...with three fordings of a river or an inlet large enough to need a boat or ferry. And for those who despaired at Skyrim....the monsters do NOT scale. You go after the gryphon you see in the game play before you are ready, it will kill you. You can stick your head in the wrong cave and lose it if you don't run fast enough. And hop over to Amazon to see what their collector's edition will have in it...

Gary, AS, good luck getting your respective monkeys off your backs and out of your wallets.