Geralt of Rivia is The Witcher.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen console preview — A new entry point for a vast world

Now that we have a couple of seasons behind us of Netflix’s The Witcher video show, I suspect there are a lot of people willing to give The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt video game a try for the first time, thanks to a next-generation console and PC update coming on December 14.

I’m one of those people who can dive in. The Netflix show with Henry Cavill proved to be a new point of entry for a franchise that has captured the attention of a lot of people, partly through a series of books written since the 1980s and partly through CD Projekt Red’s video game series which ran from 2007 through 2015.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.