Elon Musk was never in Cyberpunk 2077 according to one CD Projekt Red developer, despite the Tesla and X boss demanding a cameo.
Cyberpunk 2077 senior quest designer Patrick K. Mills said the widely believed fan theory that Musk features in the corpo opening of the game is "nonsense".
This came in response to a post from Virus_Kid on X (below), who commented on a new character model which appeared in the game-changing Update 2.0. "Oh my god they removed the Elon Musk cameo from the corpo opening in Cyberpunk 2077," they said, posting screenshots of the cutscene before and after the patch.
"That wasn't Elon Musk. It looks nothing like him," Mills responded. "Who came up with this nonsense?" The developer didn't provide any further...
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Starfield Paid DLSS Mod Creator Hits Back at Pirates, Threatens to Add 'Hidden Mines' in Future Mods
Starfield is out now on Xbox Series consoles and PC, but the latest Bethesda RPG is missing a key graphics option that PC users are clamoring for. Nvidia DLSS, which stands for Deep Learning Super Sampling, is upscaling technology that's been a highly-requested feature for Starfield, and it was missing at launch.
While Bethesda has already revealed that DLSS support on PC is coming to Starfield sometime down the line, players who want to benefit from the better visuals now are turning to fan-made Starfield DLSS mods — and that's where some controversy lies.
Modder PureDark specializes in creating DLSS3 and DLSS2 mods, and he restricted access to his more advanced Starfield DLSS3 mod behind a $5-per-month Patreon subscription. The mod...
With EA Sports FC 24 launching this week, we finally have confirmed performance information from EA itself on how the football game runs on the Nintendo Switch. The Switch version is particularly interesting this year because for the first time it runs on EA’s Frostbite Engine, which is used to power the other versions. It means EA isn’t simply releasing a rebranded “legacy” version of FIFA 19 again. Instead, the Switch version is more akin to the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One version.
Switch players also get an expanded Ultimate Team mode on par with the Ultimate Team seen in other versions of the game. Ultimate Team in the Nintendo Switch version of FIFA was severely limited, so this improvement is sure to go down well with fans...
CD Prokekt Red added a reference to the late rally driving and racing game legend Ken Block in Cyberpunk 2077's Update 2.0 after he passed away in January 2023.
The reference comes in the form of a new car players can find in Night City, which is also the only weaponised vehicle available for free. The Type-66 Hoon is available through the I'm in Love With My Car quest.
Paying homage to Block, the car is a very fast, solid off-road vehicle and its name is a reference to his auto media and apparel company Hoonigan Industries. Perhaps leaning more into his video game history — as Block featured in several premier franchises including Need for Speed, Dirt, and Forza — it also comes fitted with two machine guns.
A full breakdown of how...
SXSW Sydney 2023 has confirmed that voice actors Troy Baker and Anjali Bhimani will be joining proceedings at the SXSW Sydney 2023 Games Festival, which begins on Wednesday, October 18.
Baker (best known for his roles as Joel in The Last of Us and Booker in BioShock Infinite) and Bhimani (the voice of Symmetra in Overwatch and Rampart in Apex Legends) will also be performing music from Melbourne-based Summerfall Studios’ Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical at the festival’s opening night event on Tuesday, October 17.
IGN’s review of Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical noted that while its murder mystery is predictable, it’s well worth playing through more than once for its strong voice cast and customisable songs.
Access to these...
We still have a few months until Black Friday deals start arriving, but if you're hoping to have as much money on holiday gifts as possible this year, now is the time to start preparing. Black Friday is the absolute best time to buy just about everything, including big-ticket items like TVs, gaming consoles, and PCs.
To help you save as much money as possible during the holiday season, we've gathered all of the info you need to know about Black Friday 2023 below. The deals may start earlier and earlier each year, but there are always some staple truths you can count on from the biggest sales event of the season.
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Escape from Tarkov is a game that makes you feel amazing if you win, and awful if you lose. You're likely to feel terrible again and again if you play it, but the thrill when everything goes right makes up for all of that. And while it's hard to beat that feeling of pleasure, I imagine I'm not the only person who played Tarkov and felt the pain of its hardcore difficulty. Escape from Tarkov: Arena seems like a game that even these kinds of players can jump in and enjoy. Arena retains the original Tarkov's hardcore shootouts while being a fast-paced and much more easily-digested team shooter.
What makes Arena special is that despite the different rules, the game as a whole still feels like Tarkov, including the gunplay. Between its...
It’s been nearly three years since we first entered Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City, and a lot has changed -- you can check out the full list of Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 changes here. While it may have started with a pained launch, CD Projekt Red has continued to make huge updates and improvements to shape Night City into what it is today. And now it’s received its biggest overhaul yet with the free Cyberpunk 2.0 update and the $30 Phantom Liberty expansion. If its been years since you cruised the neon-dripped streets of Night City, here’s a handy refresher. We’ll go over some of the basic mechanics of Cyberpunk 2077, and clue you in on some of the best features that have been released since you’ve been away.
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Night City and its...
Limited Run Games is releasing physical copies of Persona 3 Portable for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and Xbox One. The preorder period goes from Sept. 29 to Nov. 12.
Each platform will have standard, Grimoire, and SEES Editions available for Persona 3 Portable. The standard version just includes a physical copy of the game and costs $35. The Grimoire Edition costs twice as much at $70 and contains a few extra items in addition to the physical copy of the game, such as a steelbook, a Grimoire Book Box, and a slipcover.
The SEES Edition is the most expensive and costs a whopping $200. It includes everything from the Grimoire Edition and even more goodies. It comes with a 1:1 Evoker Replica shadow box that lights up and another 3D...
When it comes to arcade classics like Bomberman, the secret to longevity is keeping it simple. Though there have been dozens of iterations of Hudson Soft's absorbing competitive puzzler, they've all largely adhered to the same principle: blowing things (and people) up in a candy-colored paradise. Just about every one of them has a new gimmick waiting around the corner, whether it’s the spacious areas of action-flavored Bomberman Generation or Bomberman Tournament's Zelda-like Quest Mode. That's how Super Bomberman R 2 manages to keep the hits coming: with some clever modes that put a new spin on things. Of course, Bomberman has always been at its best when played with others, so it's no surprise that's where this feature-rich sequel...
Bethesda Game Studios has released a new patch for Starfield. While minor, it does improve performance and addresses an issue for some AMD GPUs not properly displaying star lens flares.
Announced on the Bethesda website, Patch 1.7.33 addresses performance and stability problems while tweaking some gameplay issues. The biggest one comes for the PC version, specifically for those with AMD graphics cards in their rigs. As pointed out by TechSpot, earlier this month, some AMD GPU users reported an issue where it was daylight, but star lens flares (aka when light is scattered or flared due to bright light) were not visible, with several people on Reddit posting reporting and/or posting screenshots of the issue.
Another standout in Patch...
Cyberpunk 2077's biggest mystery has unravelled even further in Update 2.0 and the Phantom Liberty expansion, with some fans who got too close to the truth being (politely) silenced by developer CD Projekt Red.
A series of strange letters and symbols has been at the centre of the bizarre mystery, which even seeped beyond Cyberpunk 2077 and into CD Projekt Red's other franchise with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The release of the game-changing Update 2.0 includes even more clues, however, and the incoming Phantom Liberty expansion likely has even more.
The mystery, known as FF:06:B5, began when players discovered the code on a statue worshipped by monks in Cyberpunk 2077's Night City (below). A series of other numbers hidden throughout...
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When you install a cozy life sim with crafting, farming, fishing, or other tasks, you can expect that you’ll have to do some work. A lot of these games are based around the idea of you playing a character who has to contribute to a system or community, which often involves labor. This isn’t necessarily a bad thing since the grind of a fake job can be a great way to explain why you have to gather resources, make money, form relationships, or construct buildings, but it’s up to game designers to ensure you don’t feel like you’re...
How do you break down what makes the ideal television show? It’s not easy, given the fact that each person has their own individual taste, but IGN did our best when it came to outlining our criteria for our 2023 revamp of our top TV shows of all time.
The show must have finished its run or been on the air for at least 10 years and had a significant impact on television as a whole — because how many shows make it to 10 seasons these days? While this does exclude some of our currently running faves like The Last of Us, The Boys, Squid Game and more, those shows haven’t completed their stories yet. Don’t worry — we’ll likely see them eligible by the next time we refresh this list!
Voters were asked to consider the following: How...
Controversy and upheaval around game engine Unity has forced the developer of a WipEout-style racer to cancel its planned Nintendo Switch port.
BallisticNG, which launched on Steam via PC in 2018 and currently enjoys an “overwhelmingly positive” user review rating, was set to recent a port on Nintendo’s console, but this is no more.
Explaining the decision in a post on Steam, developer Neognosis said it was moving forward after what it called the “Unity debacle”.
Last week, Unity announced key changes to its widely panned Runtime Fee policy, which spawned both derision and confusion from developers and the gaming community at large when it was unveiled earlier this month.
As originally announced, starting on January 1, 2024 Unity...
Update: Capcom has officially confirmed that the iPhone 15 Pro and iPad port of Resident Evil Village will be released on October 30.
In a press release, the company confirmed that this port will retail for $39.99 for the base game, while The Winters' Expansion will be available separately for $19.99.
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If you picked up an iPhone 15 Pro this past weekend and are eagerly awaiting the chance to play Resident Evil Village on your smartphone, you might not have to wait much longer, as Capcom has quietly revealed that the iPhone and iPad port of Resident Evil Village is out on October 30.
Spotted first by Gematsu, which reported the Resident Evil Village for iPhone and iPad release date in Japan...
Amid the many and varied documents coming out of Microsoft’s battle to buy Activision Blizzard for $69 billion are emails and strategy slides revealing companies on Xbox’s potential hitlist. It seems most video game publishers have at one point fallen under the eye of Microsoft's mergers and acquisitions team, including Square Enix, Sega, and even Nintendo.
Capcom, the company behind Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, and Street Fighter, is often mentioned as a potential acquisition target. But how would Capcom respond if Microsoft came calling?
That’s exactly what Capcom COO Haruhiro Tsujimoto was asked during an interview with Bloomberg at Tokyo Game Show 2023. His answer: no thanks.
“I would gracefully decline the offer because I...
Cyberpunk 2077's popularity has spiked following the release of Update 2.0, with the game rocketing to eighth place on Steam's most played games list ahead of expansion Phantom Liberty's launch on September 26.
Data from SteamDB shows CD Projekt Red's futuristic role-playing game has overtaken the likes of Grand Theft Auto 5 and Rust thanks to the release of Update 2.0, which completely revamps the base game with features such as a new perk system and improved AI.
Cyberpunk 2077 has a 24 hour peak of 169,711 concurrent players on September 25, with the strong figure coming even before its one and only expansion Phantom Liberty launches the next day.
Bethesda's space epic Starfield sits ahead of it with 187,483 concurrent users in...
Xbox boss Phil Spencer has revealed the one game we would love to see revived: MechAssault.
MechAssault launched for the original Xbox in November 2002, and was one of the first games to support Xbox Live online multiplayer. Day 1 Studios’ third-person action game went down well with fans, and spawned a sequel MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf, released in 2004. A Nintendo DS game, MechAssault: Phantom War, launched in 2006. Day 1 Studios is now known as Wargaming Chicago-Baltimore, and works on World of Tanks.
In 2017, Mitch Gitelman, who previously worked as the head of FASA Studio (Day 1 Studios worked with FASA on MechAssault), revealed Microsoft decided to pull the plug on the franchise after MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf didn't sell well...
CD Projekt has confirmed the global release times for Cyberpunk 2077 expansion Phantom Liberty on PC and console.
The hotly anticipated expansion, which follows last week’s release of the game-changing Update 2.0, launches at 1am CEST on September 26 on PC, and midnight local time on Xbox Series X and S and PlayStation 5. Pre-load on console is available now.
Here’s the list of Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty release times worldwide:
Los Angeles (United States) - PC: September 25 at 4pm PDT
Los Angeles (United States) - Console: September 26 at 12am PDT
Mexico City (Mexico) - PC: September 25 at 5pm CST
Mexico City (Mexico) - Console: September 26 at 12am CST
New York (United States) - PC: September 25 at 7pm EDT
New York (United...
A third game in the Star Wars Jedi series is in the works, the actor behind its protagonist has confirmed.
Respawn’s Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order launched in 2019 to critical and commercial acclaim, with more than 20 million players and over 10 million copies sold. It spawned a sequel, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, which launched in April 2023.
The series stars young Jedi Knight, Cal Kestis, who fights against the Galactic Empire in a story set in the years after Star Wars: Episode 3 – Revenge of the Sith.
Speaking during the Star Wars: Jedi Game Series Panel at Ocala Comic Con 2023 on September 16, and captured in a video published to YouTube, Cal Kestis actor Cameron Monaghan discussed the unannounced project.
“We’re working on the...
Dustborn appears to be many things. It’s a road tripping adventure across an alternate United States that involves maintaining relationships between the members of a rebel gang posing as a rock group, and staying off the radar of an oppressive police force called Justice. It’s a rhythm action game, requiring you to tap buttons in time with on screen prompts to sing along with the car radio or complete performances with your band. In some instances, it’s a Streets of Rage-inspired beat ‘em up that lets you take a baseball bat to hordes of robot soldiers. Yet all the while, Dustborn is also a comic book that your decisions are helping to shape on the fly.
In a novel twist, or perhaps a graphic novel twist, the completion of each chapter...
When it was released eleven years ago, Dragon’s Dogma stood out as a bold open-world action-RPG that didn’t conform to any pre-existing mold for the genre. From its one-of-a-kind Pawn mechanic that encouraged you to frequently swap out AI controlled companions from a network populated by creations from other players to its action centric combat that had you climbing all over giant monsters in order to specifically target weak points and bring them down to size, there’s nothing quite like it. Even to this day.
My big takeaway after playing an hour of Dragon’s Dogma 2 is that Capcom is doubling down on everything that made Dragon’s Dogma so unique, with a big focus on refining and polishing those elements to a shine. And in that regard...
At first glance Lysfanga: The Time Shift Warrior appears to be a stylish but somewhat straightforward isometric hack ‘n’ slash in the vein of Hades, but after having some hands-on time with it at Tokyo Game Show it’s clear that there’s considerably more to it. While rewinding time has become a common function in everything from platformers to racing sims over the years, Lysfanga implements its time manipulation in a surprisingly interesting way - allowing you to basically record yourself completing a series of attacks, rewind, and then fight alongside a time-shifted duplicate of yourself who serves as a sort of deadly instant replay of your previous run.
Thus each and every enemy encounter in Lysfanga quickly blossoms into an all-out...
At a special showcase for members of the press at Bandai Namco Entertainment in Tokyo, Japan, I had a chance to play an early build of Tekken 8. While renowned director Katsuhiro Harada’s latest sequel will launch with 32 characters, only 16 were available during this meeting. The roster included a blend of old and new faces, including long-established stars like Paul Phoenix and Jin Kazama alongside more recent creations like Claudio Serafino and Lars Alexandersson. However, series producer Michael Murray stated that all Tekken 8 models have been redesigned from scratch, befitting the transition from the Unreal Engine 4 to Unreal Engine 5.
With a series that celebrates its 30th anniversary next year, Tekken walks a tricky line. The...
Announced earlier this year, Bandai Namco's Sand Land looks to translate a cult Japanese comic into an open-world adventure. Playing it on the floor of Tokyo Game Show, I came away intrigued about the characters and story, but less thrilled about actually playing the full game.
Sand Land debuted in the year 2000 as a short-lived tale of a demon prince exploring a desolate wilderness – hence the title. Created by Akira Toriyama, a manga artist of major renown for his Dragonball series as well as his contributions to many games such as Dragon Quest, Sand Land remained a print-only phenomenon until 2023. A feature-length film debuted this summer, with this game serving as the next multimedia tie-in.
The demo opens on a strong note...
We live in a time of exceptional video game quality and abundance: There’s always too much to play (especially as I type this in September of 2023). So it’s all the more surprising that The Making of Karateka, which focuses on a game from nearly 40 years ago, totally captivated me. Part classic game collection and part documentary, wrapped in an interactive historical experience, The Making of Karateka follows the true story of a teenager’s path to publishing a hit video game in 1985. And the story is a good one. While Karateka is not a particularly fun 2D-fighting game to play, exploring its story in this weird and wonderful package is very much so.
What makes this story extra special is twofold: First, the surviving documentation...
If you're bummed that Starfield is not more like No Man's Sky, where you can seamlessly travel from space to planet, there's now a mod available that does just that.
Spotted by PCGamesN, modder 105gun has introduced a mod that finally adds seamless space travel into Bethesda's sci-fi RPG. As described on NexusMods, when installed, the mod Slower Than Light allows Starfield players on PC to control the speed gear of their ship using hotkeys. The maximum speed is the equivalent of "hundreds of times the speed of light," allowing players to travel between planets without fast travel and, more importantly, no load times.
As you can see from our captured footage, the mod allows for much faster traversal through space without having to...
Konami has unveiled new information about the expected resolution and framerates of the three games in its upcoming Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1. But fans aren't happy with what they're seeing, particularly regarding Metal Gear Solid being locked to 30fps across all consoles.
The table above was shared on an official Konami website for the collection earlier today, and most notably has Metal Gear Solid locked to 30fps across all platforms. Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, on the other hand, both run at 60fps on everything but Nintendo Switch. What's more, all the games are stuck at 1080p resolution on everything (except the Switch's handheld mode, which doesn't support it) and never make it to 4K.
As fans are pointing out...
The pile of squid ink spaghetti, Xûr, is now live in Destiny 2 for the weekend until next week's reset. If you're looking to get you some shiny new Exotic armor or weapons for your Guardian, look no further.
Each week, Xûr has a random assortment of Exotic armor, one for each Guardian class, as well as a random Exotic Weapon and an Exotic Engram available for purchase. In addition to his Exotic wares, he's got a random collection of Legendary weapons and armor to deck out your Guardians.
We've rounded up all the info on Xûr for the week including where to find Xûr, which Exotic weapons and armor are available, as well as which Legendary weapons you should pick up, either for PvE or PvP.
Where Is Xûr Today?
Xûr's location can be...