The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt fans, you might want to stay away from the Internet for the next week.
The latest game in the popular Witcher series has leaked over a week before it was slated to launch. The game is a victim of the growing trend of retail stores breaking release dates and selling the game ahead of time. Reports of at least one store in the United Arab Emirates having sold copies early have appeared on the forums of CD Projekt RED, the developer of the Witcher series.
Multiple online streams of the game have appeared on the streaming service Twitch. Quick to strike back, Twitch made it clear that these streams would not be allowed, posting on their Twitter that streaming is not allowed until May 19.
Spoilers for the game have begun to spread like wildfire on various social media networks such as Reddit. If you’ve been counting down the days to release like the PixelClicksPodcast crew has, the already torturous wait just got much harder.