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Running a Witcher themed Dungeons and Dragons campaign is easier than you think. Many people have had the same idea, and many have created all sorts of resources to enable to people to quickly get campaigns up and running. Along with that, these things have been tested to ensure balance. But not everything is pre-made, and you’ll probably want to come up with some things yourself. But either way, you can use the things in this list as a starting point for creating your very own Witcher themed campaign....

The newest adventure for Dungeons and Dragons is Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden, and some players have already ventured into the icy climes of the Forgotten Realms’ Far North to follow in the icebound footsteps of dark elf adventurer Drizzt Do’Urden. The adventure module combines modern horror tropes with what players know of Icewind Dale from Salvatore’s Drizzt books to create a truly unique and potentially (delightfully) horrifying Dungeons and Dragons experience....

Techland releases a trailer for the upcoming expansion for Dying Light called The Following, which centers around a cult that has gained power in the zombie apocalypse. Released in January of 2015, Techland’s Dying Light is still receiving support from the developer, but what will perhaps be the game’s final big story DLC, called The Following, is set to release on February 9th. With about a month to go until the launch of the expansion, Techland has released a story trailer that offers some vague details about the plot....

As announced by the company earlier this week, Dying Light 2 is slated to get a developer update on March 17, revealing the first major news about the game since its indefinite delay last year. Fans are already speculating about what details will be divulged regarding the sequel, but it appears a release date will not be among them. Coming courtesy of Techland’s Community Manager “Uncy” on the Dying Light 2 Discord (and later reported by Idle Sloth on Twitter), it has been confirmed there won’t be a release date included in the developer update....

Use this guide for Dying Light: The Following to find the blueprint needed to create Czesiu’s Super Zombie Grenade - a weapon that causes zombies to levitate. In Dying Light: The Following, the newly released expansion to the base Dying Light game, players will be spending a lot of time killing hordes of zombies. Luckily, there are plenty of tools available to get the job done, including guns, various melee weapons, explosives, and even a dune buggy....

EA’s reveal trailer for Titanfall 2’s offline single-player mode leaks a few hours before the company’s presentation and reveals the game’s main character and release date. The Electronic Arts presentation is only a few short hours away, but a major announcement from the show already leaked. It’s no surprise that Titanfall 2 will take the stage during EA’s off-site presentation and leaked footage of the pre-recorded show offers the first look at the upcoming game’s offline single-player campaign....

Nintendo has released a trailer for a new Kirby game for the Nintendo Switch focusing on 4-Player Cooperative platforming. Friends can assist the lovable pink protagonist in a variety of ways that will affect the way he navigates a given level, from solving environmental puzzles, to rolling over enemies in a massive wheel of cooperative destruction. The trailer introduces our insatiably hungry blob hero and shows off beautifully designed levels, as he inhales foes, absorbs their powers, and unleashes insanely cute devastation on all who oppose him....

Remember last year when EA CEO John Riccitiello came out and said Battlefield 3 is better than Call of Duty in almost every meaningful way? That was one of many examples of the EA shooter franchises going to war again Activision’s Call of Duty series, even if some (including EA’s own Danger Close Games) didn’t want to partake in the shenanigans. Well, here we go again. It’s the next round of EA vs....

At today’s Stadia Connect event, the Google developer announced a number of games and updates that will come to Stadia later this year, including The Elder Scrolls Online: Stonethorn expansion pack. The Elder Scrolls Online massive multiplayer’s most recent DLC package was Greymoor, which released just last month. And despite the large update coming so recently, ESO is already planning on releasing another DLC package next month called Stonethorn, which will add on to the “Dark Heart of Skyrim” storylines, according to the ESO website....

One of many reveals shown today at the PC Gaming Show showed of developer Frontier Development’s next expansion to its popular space-sim, Elite Dangerous: Odyssey, Expected to come to PC, PS4 and Xbox One next year. Announced earlier this month, the new expansion will focus on planetary exploration on foot. No longer tied to a ground vehicle, players can exit their ships and explore all the planets within the game on a whole new level....

Amplitude Studios, a French game developer founded in January 2011 by former Ubisoft employees Mathieu Girard and Romain de Waubert de Genlis, is currently celebrating its tenth anniversary. In honor of this milestone, the studio is making its three best-selling titles, Dungeon of the Endless, Endless Space 2, and Endless Legend, free to try this weekend on Steam. In June 2016. Amplitude was acquired by Sega and is now part of Sega West, which includes Creative Assembly, Sports Interactive and Relic Entertainment....

Physical copies of video games in Europe will now feature a warning if there are in-game purchases available during gameplay. Any of you reading this aged 25 and above will know, and have likely marveled as we have, how drastically the video game landscape has changed over the past three decades. The graphics have reached a point where they are almost unbelievable, we have gone from cartridges to discs to downloads, and some gameplay is more in-depth than we could have ever imagined....

This The Simpsons review contains spoilers. The Simpsons Season 33 Episode 19 Lisa gets bumped up from first chair saxophone to high school second banana, and still is the smartest little girl in grade number two. The Simpsons’ “Girls Just Shauna Have Fun” is sweet, surprisingly sobering, and keeps its wit about. The episode opens when a double-time toe-crushing marching incident leads Springfield Elementary’s most talented musician, Lisa, to sit in with Springfield’s high school marching band....

Think you’re the toughest wanderer on the wasteland? A Twitch streamer playing Fallout 4 just beat the entire game without taking a single hit of damage. It’s safe to say that Fallout 4 is a little more forgiving than previous titles in the series. Between the prevalence of power armor frames littered through the environment, and the simplification of RPG elements like the conversation system, the game was always intended to be more accessible that earlier instalments....

For the past few weeks, Bethesda has been hosting its Beta (Break-It Early Test Application) time slots ahead of the launch of Fallout 76. With the testing period officially over before servers go live in the next few days, some players are running into issues when trying to remove the game from their systems ahead of launch. According to a report on VG24/7, PC players have been running into a problem with not being able to uninstall Fallout 76 from their hard drives....

Fallout 76 players have persisted in the face of numerous bugs since launch, but this latest one might be too much. Fans are reporting that, for reasons unknown, the game is ignoring many of the decisions they’ve made in the story. Due to this, quest outcomes will be wildly different from what they should be, leaving many fans frustrated This apparent bug is being discussed on the Fallout 76 subreddit, and players really aren’t happy that it has’t been addressed....

After Build-A-Bear showed interest in a potential Animal Crossing collaboration on Twitter, one fan has decided to create a petition in support of the idea. Mark Gonzalez’s Change.org petition highlights some of the reasons why such a collaboration would be good for the company, stating that “Build-A-Bear would receive more customers from the Animal Crossing community”. It looks like many other fans of the series agree as well, with the petition receiving more than 6,000 signatures since it was started late last year....

Far Cry 5 is the newest in the Far Cry series from Ubisoft. And for anyone who is looking to experience it, the game is free-to-play for this weekend only. While fans of the series have been closely monitoring all the Far Cry 6 leaks dropped so far, others will get to experience the crazed Hope County for the first time this weekend. The story of Far Cry 5 is filled with a cult that has bloodied the beautiful landscapes and picturesque forests of a small town in Montana....

Bungie has had a tougher week than normal after the developer found itself embroiled in controversy over the prices attached to the recently announced Destiny expansion, The Taken King and one of their developers not coming off well about it in an interview. With Bungie announcing more concrete details for the upcoming expansion and promising to make things right with their fanbase, the developer is bringing back the popular competitive event, Iron Banner, this week for Destiny players along with all new loot to earn....

Destiny fans faced off in the game’s Sparrow Racing League, creating a tournament between streamers that netted more than $15,000 for St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Over the weekend a group of Destiny streamers hosted the second ever Streamer Racing League and raised over $15,000 for St. Jude. The event, streamed live on Twitch, took advantage of Sparrow Racing League, which is currently active in Destiny thanks to the game’s December live event, The Dawning....