Not long after The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt came out, we posted about a number of exploits within the game world that allowed players to quickly bulk up their bank accounts by manipulating the markets. The first method involved slaughtering countless cows in the starting area of White Orchard for their valuable hides. The second, more elaborate method entailed running around the city of Novigrad to exchange currencies, buy pearls in one place and sell them for a higher price somewhere else, in classic, capitalist fashion.
These techniques worked swimmingly for a while, but the developer eventually caught on (in some part due to the popularity of posts like ours, I would imagine) and patched them out of the game in subsequent updates. The exchange rates and what merchants carried were adjusted to nullify the pearls exploit, while the cow hide problem was handled with the addition of a vicious Chort that would come to kill you if you spent too long tormenting cows.
With the release of its first major expansion, Hearts of Stone, developer CD Projekt Red has added a sly wink to those exploits in the form of an encounter with a tax collector. When running through the streets, Geralt might now be stopped by Walthemor Mitty, Deputy Tax Enumerator representing Revenue and Customs for Occupied Temeria. This bespectacled bureaucratic functionary then proceeds to essentially audit Geralt, pointing out the apparent disparity between his profession and the rapid rise of his personal wealth.
Mitty specifically grills Geralt on whether he has been taking part in “the wholesale trade of rawhide in the White Orchard area” and “the acquisition of bivalves with the express intention of selling the pearls therein.” YouTube channel WhatsMyGame, whose videos shared the money exploits in the first place, has posted a video of the exchange, which you can see above.
The whole scene is quite funny and self-aware. Also, is Walthemor Mitty an oblique literary reference to the protagonist of James Thurber’s classic short story, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty? That’s marvelously nerdy if it is the case.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
Why does this run so well on Apple devices?
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”