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The Witcher was an RPG in the classic PC style, and we loved that. The combat, however, felt a bit odd. Maybe it was because it was somewhere between action-focused murder and tactical thinking without being one or the other. This trailer for Witcher 2 goes into the intricacies of the combat system, and we are already liking what we see a lot more. Smooth combat, more varied moves, and a lot of information on how each skill tree affects your fighting. This is the definition of an excellent trailer.

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At least one game due in May is sticking to its proposed release date. Developer CD Projekt has just announced that its long awaited fantasy RPG title The Witcher 2 has now "gone gold" meaning that the game is completed and is being replicated onto disks that will later be shipped to stores.

That ship date is still scheduled for May 17, a date that CD Projekt announced several months ago. The game, a sequel to the million selling The Witcher, will be released in retail stores in the US via publisher Atari as well as download sites. However the CD Projekt owned GoG.com will be the only place to download and purchase a DRM-free copy of the game.

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The Witcher 2 is shaping up to be quite the third-person action RPG, and this trailer just adds to the list of things we can look forward to. Multiple play styles in a single game is one of our favorite styles of design, and the Polish developers at CDprojekt really want to impress that Witcher 2 will be guided more by the players expectations than a developer-forced linearity. There's lots of information about the three major tree here, and it shows each in action: swords, alchemy, and magic. Tons of information, a large amount of in-game footage, and plenty of combat makes this a great trailer.

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While we expected this to happen, today GoG.com announced that the DRM-free PC game download site will begin selling Enhanc Director's Cut version of The Witcher, the first game in the fantasy RPG series from developer CD Projekt. The game will go live on the site on May 10. While it will normally be sold for $9.99, the price from May 10-24 will be just $4.99.

In addition to the lower price the version of the game sold on GoG.com will come with a couple of extras not available anywhere else including a downloadable 12 month calendar featuring topless ladies (yes this game is rated "M" for a reason". The calender was only made available previously in the game's native Poland when The Witcher was first released. The GoG.com version will also include the game's soundtrack, a downloadable artbook, avatars and 30 wallpapers.

While the GoG.com version of The Witcher 2 will still be DRM free, other copies, including the retail version, of the upcoming fantasy RPG will have a DRM set-up. In a streaming press conference today, developer CD Projekt announced that they are using SecuROM for the game's DRM program However the developer also said that the game will only use the system in order to keep pirates from leaking the game before its scheduled release date of May 17.

The game will need a one-time login to the internet to start playing but will not have an "always on" set up to continue playing the game. The Witcher 2 will let PC gamers have unlimited installs on an unlimited amount of PCs and will let people play it on up to five PCs at once.

In related news, The Witcher 2 will have an optional registration that will alert players to future patches as well as give them access to free content updates.

Today's the day that the DRM-free web site GoG.com is set to reveal what it has been teasing us with for the past couple of days. However that doesn't mean it can't throw in one more final tease to make us think. Today the site is showing the above image, "What game made you afraid of the dark?"

We should learn more about what GoG.com has planned for the future at 1 pm Eastern time today as its executive hold yet another streaming press conference. It will be preceded at noon by a conference by its parent company CD Projekt where it will reveal more about its upcoming fantasy RPG sequel The Witcher 2.

A day before the latest game announcements are due to be revealed, the web site for GoG.com has posted up yet another cryptic message, asking its users, "What game made you go to the underworld?"

On Tuesday, the site posted up another teaser asking us, "What game made you dream of the stars?" Is today's teaser about the same game or something different? Just what does the sometimes tricky GoG.com going to announce when it holds its streaming press conference at 1 pm Eastern time on Thursday? Will we stop asking questions to ourselves? As always, we just have to stay tuned.

The web masters in charge of GoG.com are at it once again. The DRM-free PC gaming web site, who several months ago shut down the site completely as a ill-advised stunt to promote the web site's redesign, are making hints about a big new addition to its game library.

You can see the big hint above this post. What could the game be? You will be able to find out at 1 pm Eastern time this Thursday when GoG.com holds a live streaming press conference. GoG.com's announcement will be preceeded at noon by a streaming presentation by the web site's parent company CD Projekt.

The Witcher 2 is due out on May 17 but today developer CD Projekt has just revealed the PC exclusive RPG's system requirements for all to see and read. The time has come to see if your particular PC gaming rig can handle the new minimal and recommended system specs.

The game is still up for pre-orders at a number of sites but if you want to get the game via download without any fear of a DRM set up it's best if you go and get the game via the GoG.com download site. You can see the system requirements for the game after the jump:

While GoG.com had already announced a few months ago that the version of The Witcher 2 it would sell would be DRM-free, this week the PC game download site confirmed that it would be the only retailer to sell a DRM-free Digital Deluxe version of the upcoming CD Projekt developed fantasy RPG.

In fact, GoG.com just put in an extra incentive for pre-ordering The Witcher 2 from its site. Anyone who does do by 7 am Eastern time this Thursday will get a special code to join a live video Q&A on Ustream where CD Projekt team members will take questions about the game and also reveal some new concept artwork.