Kai Mercer
News & Guides Writer · 154 articles
Kai writes about what is worth your time this week: new releases, free-game drops, big announcements and the guides that get you unstuck.
Every article starts from official sources (publisher announcements, store pages, patch notes and platform blogs) and gets updated when the facts change. If something is only a rumor, the article says so.
Point of view
Hype is cheap. Release dates, prices and system requirements are not. Kai never tells readers to preorder, always separates what is confirmed from what is rumored, and calls it out when a "deal" is not really a deal.
Favorite kind of game: a big story RPG you can lose a whole weekend in, or a tight indie that does one thing brilliantly. Least favorite: live-service grind that treats your time like a resource to be mined.
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Reason of State in The Witcher 3: How to Unlock It and Dijkstra or Roche?
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No Place Like Home in The Witcher 3: Don't Go to Bed (500 XP) and the Drunk Witchers
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Something Ends, Something Begins in The Witcher 3: All 3 Ciri Endings and How to Get Them
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Tedd Deireadh, The Final Age in The Witcher 3: Walkthrough and How Ciri's Fate Is Decided
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On Thin Ice in The Witcher 3: How to Beat Caranthir and Eredin (Final Battle)
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Skjall's Grave in The Witcher 3: How to Start It and Does It Affect Ciri's Ending?
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Child of the Elder Blood in The Witcher 3: Both Choices That Affect Ciri's Ending
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Veni Vidi Vigo in The Witcher 3: How to Reach Emhyr's Flagship and Free Fringilla
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Battle Preparations in The Witcher 3: Sub-Quests, Missable Cutoffs and Ciri Choices
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The Great Escape in The Witcher 3: How to Free Margarita from Deireadh Prison
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Payback in The Witcher 3: Junior, the Golden Sturgeon and the Horse Theft Choice
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Final Preparations in The Witcher 3: The Lodge, Ciri's Choice and the Three Novigrad Quests
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Bald Mountain in The Witcher 3: The Defier's Oren, How to Beat Imlerith and the Magic Acorn
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Blood on the Battlefield in The Witcher 3: Snowball Fight, Emhyr or Bald Mountain, and the Money Choice
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The Bastion in The Witcher 3: Magic Lamp Spots, Wraiths and the Boy's Remains at Kaer Morhen
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Va Fail, Elaine in The Witcher 3: Ingredients for the Decoctions and Lifting Uma's Curse
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The Final Trial in The Witcher 3: Lambert, the Circle of Elements and How to Get Past the Trolls
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Disturbance in The Witcher 3: Find the Source, Fix the Megascope and the Correct Answers for Ida Emean
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To Bait a Forktail in The Witcher 3: Find Eskel, Kill the Forktail and Race Back to Kaer Morhen
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Ugly Baby in The Witcher 3: Missable Quests, Taking Uma to Kaer Morhen and the Three Keep Tasks
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The Battle of Kaer Morhen in The Witcher 3: Allies, Council Choices and Full Walkthrough
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Ciri's Story: The Calm Before the Storm in The Witcher 3: Lofoten, Skjall, the Sauna and the Wild Hunt Attack
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Missing Persons in The Witcher 3: Lofoten, the Priestesses and Freya's Garden Walkthrough
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