The Witcher Series passes major sales milestone, shipping over 50 million copies
You can’t keep a good witcher down, especially when they have an ultra successful Netflix series to help punt the games.
You can’t keep a good witcher down, especially when they have an ultra successful Netflix series to help punt the games.
On the twilight of the current-gen of console gaming and on the eve of a new generation, there’s still so much to see and do. Here’s a round-up of all the events that’ll be hitting your PC and TV screens, over the next couple of months.
With Cyberpunk 2077 on the way, that drive to customise your Night City resident will involve you tinkering with the character select screen to create a persona that you can wield across multiple dialogue branches and action scenes. You’ll also get a chance to customise the most important part of your Cyberpunk character: Their upstairs bits and downstairs gentleman sausage.
Shocking news: A video game with certain risky elements within it may not be suitable for children. At least that’s the takeaway for Cyberpunk 2077, after Brazil’s advisory rating system accidentally revealed that the game will get slapped with a hard 18+ age restriction when it’s released within those festive borders.
Here’s one variant of the Xbox One X that looks smashing. After teasing some hacking, Microsoft showed off a custom bit of kit that looks both wonderfully futuristic and retro. Kind of like far-future technology in 1980s sci-fi films. The Cyberpunk 2077 Xbox One X Limited Edition console has laser etched designs, an LED light, custom panels, a custom controller and it glows in the dark. Neat!
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red latest Polish Q&A session touched on the theme of DLC, a topic where the studio revealed that they wouldn’t be deviating too much from the template set by The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt when it came down to extra content that will be rolled out in the weeks and months to come after the hotly-anticipated cybernetic sandbox arrives in September.
If you’ve ever fancied yourself a PC case designer who could put the pros out of business, then Cyberpunk 2077 wants you to send them your dream concept for the ultimate PC case themed around that upcoming game.
With video games, the flow of work seems to be one that has adapted to the new status quo, as studios quarantine their employees at home and use the power of the web to get work done on projects. Take CD Projekt Red for instance, who have introduced new measures to keep its valued employees healthy and alive.
Cloud gaming removed hardware barriers, but it replaced them with something less visible and …
A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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