With several years of development, hype and a commitment to creating good games as opposed to glorified adverts for microtransactions, there’s an expectation that Cyberpunk 2077 is going to do stupidly well when it arrives next year.

There’s a ton of detail in any given screenshot for Cyberpunk 2077, thanks to Night City being a den of corruption where money talks and post-human surgery is the only way to get ahead in life. That, and having a few extra upgrades along the way doesn’t hurt too much either. Over at PAX Australia, new gameplay was shown off behind closed doors, with attendees getting to see a chunk of action that made fine use of protagonist V’s new skill: Demon Software.

While CD Projekt Red have hinted in the past that they’d be open to the idea of taking their upcoming title into the online realm of PvP and other social interactions, that was just it. It was an idea, a thought that there was no real form commitment to. Until today that is, as the developer have officially announced that Cyberpunk 2077 will receive multiplayer content after launch and once the DLC has wrapped up.

Months of planning going into a trip that would most likely be over in the blink of an eye. No dice. Gamescom took its time, and it was very much worth every moment. Brad Lang and I arrived in a city that entirely shared the enthusiasm of the event it was hosting. Cologne was awash with Gamescom flags. Ads for …

Gamescom has Gamesgone and after a ferocious week of pushing through crowds, eating the cheapest food we could find and playing an unscrupulous amount of games, Sam and I sat down to shout very loudly at each other over what we thought was the dopest thing we saw all week. We took everything into account, both factoring in presentations and …

In the most dangerous megacity of the future, the real you is not enough in Cyberpunk 2077. Become V, a cyber-enhanced mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant — the key to immortality.

Not just a completely new direction in terms of genre for CD Projekt Red after they made a name for themselves with the Witcher trilogy, Cyberpunk is also the type of game whose landmass rejects sprawling acres of forests for more congested urban decay. According to CDPR, the Cyberpunk 2077 map is also just like me: Incredibly dense.

It’s all about choice. There are very few games at Gamescom that are generating the hype to match Cyberpunk 2077. Everyone knows it’s coming, and that it is a very large deal. T-shirts are everywhere. The Cosplayers are growing in number. The merchandise is flying off the shelf. CD Projekt Red know that we are waiting. We’ve been waiting patiently …