The Witcher 3 is releasing on all platforms on May 19th 2015.

In a recent interview with VG247, Philipp Weber quest designer for CDPR introduces a new difficulty setting aptly named Dark difficulty. Not only does this setting turn it up to 11, it introduces permadeath.

Because they want a real challenge. If you die five minutes before the ending, it’s over. There are actually people who have already done it.

Not sure how this will work - unless they have disabled save games in this mode but the hardcore nature of this setting is highly intriguing.

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