Netflix has published page one of The Witcher season two script.

The page reveals the opening scene of the hotly-anticipated second season of The Witcher series.

It doesn't reveal much, apart from a rather gruesome killing of a merchant and his wife at the hands of some mysterious foe. The scene ends with their daughter heading off to a mansion, screaming for help.

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Picture it: you're in a neon-lit bar in Cyberpunk 2077, ordering a retro-future drink, when the barman says something that fires your memory. It's not the words, it's the voice, those gravelly tones, that deadpan way of speaking. It's so familiar. Where have you heard it before? Then it lands: Geralt of Rivia! The barman has the same voice as Geralt in the The Witcher video games. And - no, it can't be a coincidence - he's called Gerry?!

It seemed like a cameo opportunity too good to miss. Even Doug Cockle, the English voice of Geralt in The Witcher games, was up for it. "Absolutely!" he told me when we met a few years ago, and I wrote a piece about him.

"I have joked with [CD Projekt Red] about bringing me in as an Easter egg. I've jokingly said, 'You've gotta bring me in as a bartender the player has to interact with for at least one quest. A bartender named Gerry who has some waiting staff, Trisha or Jenny or something like that.'"

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"[Geralt] caught sight of Regis looking at him intently. 'Is that a fresh injury?'

"'Not really. But it's tormenting me. Do you have any herbs capable of soothing the pain?'"

- Baptism of Fire by A. Sapkowski, pp.128

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Amazon Prime Day 2020 has brought numerous discounts, deals and bargains across video games, with some excellent offers going even as we speak. And if you're stuck on which games to buy, then good news! Eurogamer has its own list of "Essential" games which you absolutely have to play, which we've gone through to compare with all the best deals running on Amazon.

Here's a selection of well-valued classics that you can get for cheap right now.

Of course, there's plenty more gaming bargains going right now on Amazon Prime Day 2020 for you to grab ahold of! For everything you need to know and more, including deals, dates and details, check out our comprehensive guide page right here.

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UPDATE 07/10/20: We've seen Geralt's fancy new ab armour, but the teaser images for Season 2 of The Witcher didn't stop there, as photos of Ciri and Yennefer have also been released.

The images of Ciri shared on Instagram show the character has undergone a fair transformation in the second season, with actress Freya Allan having swapped the princess robes for a sword and a rather intense look. Seems like Ciri's getting ready to begin her transformation into the fierce fighter we know her to be in The Witcher 3.

Yennefer, meanwhile, is not looking like she's not having a brilliant time, with the photos shared on The Witcher Twitter account showing her chained up and wounded from battle. Will she manage to wriggle her way out of trouble? Knowing Yen, most likely.

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The Witcher 3 is getting a new version designed for next generation consoles and PC - and it will be free to all current owners of the game on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

This next generation version will boast ray-tracing and faster load times, and come with both expansions and all extra content included.

There's no word yet on when it might release, but as you might expect, it will also be available to purchase separately for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X when that time comes.

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If you own a copy of The Witcher 3 on PS4 or Xbox One (or a different PC storefront) you can now claim a free copy of the RPG through GOG.

All you have to do is use the GOG Galaxy client to connect to whichever platform you currently own The Witcher 3 on and follow the instructions.

You should see an option in the top of the app that gives you the option to add games or friends to the client. From there, choose the connect platforms option and follow the process to pair up wherever your current copy of The Witcher 3 lives. You'll want to make sure the app is up to date with the 2.0 version first, as well.

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Recently - I say recently, it was before lockdown, so a lifetime and a half ago - I started a new game of The Witcher 3 from scratch. Not because of the Switch port; as impressive as that is, this is a big-screen game for me. A little bit because the Netflix series had pushed the game, which celebrates its fifth anniversary today, to the front of the public consciousness and so into mine. Mostly because there was nothing new I fancied playing, or rather I fancied playing nothing new - I wanted the soothing feeling of old routines, patterns of thought and movement worn smooth with use. I wanted to go on a quest and upgrade my armour, and quest again and upgrade again, like I did five summers ago. I wanted to be weak and become strong, to be drab and become stylish, to be simple and become sophisticated. I wanted a comfort game.

What I have found is a game that is just as I remembered it - of course it is, I know a lot has happened, but five years still isn't that long ago. I still love it, but I don't love it for quite the reasons I thought I did. Those are not the things that drew me back in, and certainly not the things that have kept hold of me.

I had grown accustomed to thinking of The Witcher 3 as a masterpiece of world-building and storytelling hung on a serviceable, not to say mediocre action-RPG framework. The combat was a little sluggish and lacking in refinement, perhaps, and it never seemed to matter much where you invested your skill points. The consensus - which I hardly disagreed with - had it that the game's greatest achievements were its rich, humane tapestry of questlines and the lived-in texture of its landscapes; its portrayal of a messy, complicated medieval world that was past redemption.

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The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt turns five years old today. Can you believe it? It's become so famous I can't recall a time before it. Heck there's even a Witcher Netflix series that has made the whole thing more popular still. And although it wasn't CD Projekt Red which created the Witcher fiction, the world and characters - those honours of course go to Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski - it was that game, that third game, which broadcast it to the world.

We've written a lot about The Witcher 3 over the years (I don't appear to have written about much else!) so we thought it fitting that on the game's fifth birthday we collect our work together and share it with you in one handy space. Here's to a wonderful adventure.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt review - "A majestic, earthy open-world adventure with great integrity and personality, this is the best role-playing game in years."

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Following the news that Netflix's live-action Witcher series has been a massive success, the streaming service has confirmed that it's currently working on an animated Witcher movie too.

Making the announcement on Twitter, Netflix revealed that the project - specifically described as an "anime" film - will be titled The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, and will see a currently undisclosed "new threat facing the Continent".

Netflix says its new Witcher movie will be handled by Studio Mir - the animation house behind Legend of Korra - and that Lauren S. Hissrich and Beau DeMayo, respectively showrunner and writer on the live-action series, will be involved.

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