Netflix releases 'The Witcher' soundtrack on Jan. 24th

About a month since the release of Netflix's The Witcher, the official soundtrack for the show will be coming to streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music starting January 24. You can actually listen to the hit song/earworm of the moment "Toss a Coin to Your Witcher" already on both streaming services. The full soundtrack includes a three-hour-plus score from composers Sonya Belousova and Giona Ostinelli.

Source: The Verge

Netflix's 'The Witcher' helped boost popularity of 'The Witcher 3' on Steam

With the recent release of Netflix's adaptation of The Witcher, the game based on the original novel experienced some record-breaking highs on Steam. Marcin Momot, global community lead of The Witcher game series developer CD Projekt Red, shared on Twitter that the four-year-old game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt surpassed 93,000 concurrent players on the platform in December. This number was a 93 percent increase from the number of players who played the game at the same time the month before. In the New Year, the game has peaked at over 100,000 concurrent players, as shared by Wario64 on Twitter. 

It's an impressive number, given how old the game is already. We also don't know how many more are playing the game on other platforms, since Steam only takes into account PC players. The Witcher 3 is also available on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch. The Witcher web series, on the other hand, is an eight-episode show starring Superman actor Henry Cavill. Both the game and the show are based on The Witcher novels by Andrzej Sapkowski.

Source: Kotaku

Netflix's 'The Witcher' drops its final trailer ahead of Dec. 20 premiere

Netflix is days away from dropping the first season of its adaptation of the fantasy series The Witcher, so the streaming service releases one last trailer ahead of the December 20th release. The eight-episode first season is based on Andrzej Sapkowski's The Witcher, a bestselling book series that also spawned the popular game franchise with the same name.

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Netflix teases its take on ‘The Witcher’

We’ve known for a while that Henry Cavill will be taking on the role of Geralt in Netflix’s live-action adaptation of The Witcher. Now, we get to see him in action. The trailer shows us that The Witcher is ready to fill take up the space fantasy series Game of Thrones has left behind with black magic, monsters, evil forces, and political turmoil. It looks to be just as graphic as GoT. Cavill plays Geralt of Rivia, the series’ central character and he stars alongside Freya Allan, who plays Ciri, Anya Chalotra as Yennefer, and Anna Shaffer as Triss.

The show is based on Andrzej Sapkowski’s novels, which has also produced the popular role-playing games from CD Projekt Red. The Witcher series is being overseen by Lauren Schmidt Hissrich, who is best known for her work on The Umbrella Academy and The Defenders. We don’t know much about what the first season will be like, but she has told Entertainment Weekly that it won’t be an adaptation of the video games.

Source: The Verge