The Witcher 2: Assassin's of Kings' hero doesn't get laid all the time for nothing. In this launch trailer for the Xbox 360 edition of the game, Geralt of Rivia warns of mature content in a way that'll have your parents purchasing the game for themselves.

I vote we have Geralt's voice actor Doug Cockle do all of the ESRB ratings announcement for game trailers. I bet his "E for Everyone" is downright smoking.

Titled "Vergen by Night," it's the music that plays when… exploring Vergen, by night. It was composed by Krzysztof Wierzynkiewicz, and has a sort of Thomas Newman-ish vibe that I really dig.

Even cooler? Depending on some of the choices you make, you might not get to hear this song at all.

Hmm. I feel a full replay coming on...

The Witcher 2, one of the most visually impressive PC games going around, is getting an Xbox 360 port. If you were wondering how many corners needed to be cut to get the game running on a six year-old console, here's your answer.

There's a lot of fog, and the lighting effects have been all but turned off, but does that really matter? The game seems to be there, running, and The Witcher 2 was a pretty damn good game, even without the fancy visuals.

Perhaps you have heard that The Witcher 2 is really good? Because you know what, it really is!

And even better, the version that's coming out for the 360 is still very much the same game that PC gamers fell in love with last year.

The trailer above breaks down all of the updates and improvements in the 360 version, and does a very good job of selling the game. It also contains a fairly hilarious sex-euphemism—as Geralt slides his hand up Triss Merigold's naked thigh, the words "No Quality Compromise" flash across the screen.

It sounds like the console port of The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings, one of the top-role playing games as a PC-only release in 2011, will need a hard drive installation. Otherwise, well, enjoy the slow loading times and janky visuals, says the game's studio.

"If it's possible to install the game [then do so], because the streams will be faster, you'll experience some better visual quality, because the hard drive is much faster than any media," Marek Ziemak, a level artist for CD Projekt RED (the game's studio) told Eurogamer. "It will improve loading times, it will improve the quality of the meshes, probably also because we have faster streaming means faster movement between memory and hard drives, so you'd be able to load the good chunks and then just change them directly from your hard drive."

The Witcher 2, the first console release for the series, arrives in the middle of next month.

CD Projekt recommends installing Witcher 2 360 to hard drive [Eurogamer]

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The latest trailer for the coming Xbox 360 "Enhanced Edition" of The Witcher 2 is a percussive lil' thing, featuring lots of intercut action, as well as at least a glimpse of one of the trademark steamy love scenes and a forest tableaux that just screams "See? The game looks fine on the Xbox 360!" There's also a scene that I have to assume comes from a point in the new third-act quest, which PC gamers will also be receiving as a free download.

I played a chunk of the 360 version and liked it. It's still very much the game that PC gamers played last year, minus some of the visual bells and whistles. It releases on April 17th.

Razer's sleek and stylish Blade gaming laptop is slowly making its way into the hands of customers ballsy enough to drop $2,800 on an untested product from a company that's never made a gaming laptop before. Did their gamble pay off?

The day my Razer Blade review unit arrived I could not get over the unit's looks. Thin and deadly, with nothing but some vents and the odd stylized squid marring its sleek black exterior, this is one appealingly design machine. Upon hitting the power switch one would be forgiven for expecting it to purr to life like some exotic sports car.

Just don't expect it to drive like one.

Let's take a game-by-game look at how the machine has performed so far.

Since Saturday I've been on a mad downloading spree, attempting to fulfill all of the requests I received for games to test out on Razer's new system. At the mercy of my internet connection I managed to grab several of the most requested titles, with others still in the queue.

Before we begin, here's a quick refresher on the unit's specs:

• 2.8GHz Intel Core i7 2640M Processor
• 8GB 1333MHz DDR3 Memory
• 17.3" LED Backlit Display (1920x1080)
• NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M with NVIDIA Optimus Technology 2GB Dedicated GDDR5 Video Memory
• Built-in HD Webcam
• Integrated 60Wh Battery
• 250GB SSD Storage
• Wireless Network 802.11 b/g/n Compatible
• Battery: 6 hours idle, 2 1/2 if playing "hardcore" game.
• 16.81" (Width) x 10.9" (Depth) x 0.88" (Height); 6.97lbs (Weight)

Not exactly mind-blowing specs, but then that's not what the Razer Blade is all about. As the company likes to point out, the Razer Blade is about portability and convenience more than it is about power. At less than an inch thick and weighing in at around six pounds, this is the most portable 17 inch gaming laptop around.

Now let's see how the most portable 17 inch gaming laptop around performed, shall we?

League of Legends: The Razer Blade is a monster when it comes to Riot Games' ridiculously popular multiplayer online battle arena game. Then again so is my $500 Best Buy laptop — League of Legends isn't exactly a resource-intensive title. It just looks much better on the Blade's large and lovely screen. With settings maxed and shadows on high I got a uniform 60 frames per second, by far the best performance of all the games I tried. It's also one of the only games I could recommend using the Blade's built-in Switchblade touchpad user interface to control — anything more action-intensive cries out for an external mouse. Luckily the Blade comes packed with one.

Battlefield 3: I was frightened about running Battlefield 3 on the Blade, worried I might hurt its delicate innards. Indeed attempting to run it on Ultra settings was like transforming the beautiful black box into the world's most expensive slide projector. Thankfully the issue righted itself with one simple step down to High settings, running at a relatively constant 30 frames per second, more than enough for me to get my ass shot off.

It bears noting that running anything more demanding than League of Legends generated a fair amount of heat under the unit. I've not had any problems arise from rising temperatures yet, but it does get quite uncomfortable when attempting to play with the unit in my lap. Well, first it gets nice. Then it gets uncomfortable. Or maybe it's just uncomfortable for everybody now. MOVING ON...

Star Wars: The Old Republic: BioWare's massively multiplayer game in a galaxy far, far away seriously stuttered on any setting greater than Low. Mind you it plays like a dream on Low (or as much like a dream as The Old Republic can get), and is certainly good for a couple of quick quests or a flashpoint or two while sipping your coffee at Starbucks, where America goes to tech new technology.

The Witcher 2: Here's where I was expecting the Blade to really choke. Considering the problems my high-powered gaming desktop had running The Witcher 2 at launch, surely the Blade would trip over its own sword and fall on it here. Damn CD Projekt for their patches and fixes, ruining my fun. Again the Blade managed to perform admirably under all but the highest settings, though of course the lower the graphics the better the performance.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: It was in the wintry hills of Skyrim that the Blade struggled the most, low frame rates rearing their ugly heads until I set the game to low, and even then the heads were still mighty ugly. The Switchblade touchpad also exhibited extreme amounts of lag in the latest Elder Scrolls game, scrolling a lot like one would expect an elder to scroll; incredibly slowly.

That's all I've had time to download so far, but it's easy enough to make out the general trend: Don't expect to play much of anything with the graphics settings maxxed out.

But then as Razer's director of product marketing Heathcliff Hatcher explains, that's not what the Blade was designed to do.

"We believe if performance is all that matters, then a cheaper and more powerful desktop should be the way to go. If it's a laptop, then we sacrifice some performance (but it should still play games well) but portability is just as important. 0.88" thin and 6lbs with good performance in our view is better than 2-3" thick and 12-16lbs. Again, if someone just cares about performance we think Origin makes a phenomenal laptop and they should get it. But it's just a really different product type and we didn't intend it to be a straight up head to head benchmark – how do you benchmark how someone feels when they carry a Razer Blade vs. a traditional gaming laptop all day?"

He's right, you know. Origin does make a damn fine laptop, but I wouldn't want to carry it around in my backpack all day. Someone might steal it!

Perhaps that wasn't the point.

Also keep in mind that there are video driver updates and such in the pipes that will likely render these initial impressions moot, in which case I just wasted a great deal of time.

I'll have more on the Razer Blade in the next couple weeks as I carry it about everywhere I go and fiddle about with that glowing LCD touchscreen they've placed next to the keyboard.

In case Kirk Hamilton's preview of The Witcher 2 on the Xbox left you with unanswered questions about the 360 remake, here's CD Projekt with a professionally produced video filled with colorful lights, sounds, and people talking about making the game.

Yep, nothing like a highly-polished marketing movie to show us exactly where a game stands in terms of development. This is a raw, tightly-edited look at how the game developers are working to make the Xbox 360 version of its award-winning PC role-playing game so good that even PC players will buy it again, just for funsies.

Ha! Well guess what? It'll totally work, at least in my case. Can't speak for you people, but if I could you'd all be saying nice things about my eyes.

We've confirmed that the "Dark Edition" of the Xbox 360 version of The Witcher 2 will retail for $99. There was some reader confusion about the price. Details on the Dark Edition can be found here.