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CD Projekt expects “between 350 and 500” developers for Cyberpunk 2

This week vague but big CD Projekt news was revealed , with five Witcher games and a Cyberpunk 2077 sequel. Project Orion is the code name for the latter. It will have multiplayer and the development will mainly take place in the USA. Many, many people will be working on the game. Piotr Nielubowicz, CFO of CD Projekt, estimates that it could be up to 500 people. "As for the total headcount required for such a production, I believe the best reference is Cyberpunk 2077, our most recent r
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CD Project Red celebrates its 20th anniversary

July 1st this year, the Polish company CD Project Red celebrated 20 years as a company. A few days ago, the company released an 18-minute video on the history behind everything. In the video, Adam Badoski, Piotr Nielubowicz and Marcin Ivinski talk about the company's journey from the first Witcher to today. There is also a website dedicated to the celebration where you can read about the games and the company's history. They also encourage readers to share screenshots, selfies and more to p
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Canada, New World Update for Microsoft Flight Simulator

There have been quite a few world updates to Microsoft Flight Simulator . Right from day one, we could fly all over the world. However, the team is working hard to spruce it up – and now the turn has come to Canada. It is revealed via the official news page from Xbox. Canada is filled with a plethora of sights to explore from the air: magnificent urban architecture, wave-battered northern coastlines, and vast sweeps of tundra, glaciers and towering peaks. That sounds like quite a fligh
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Blizzard investigates Overwatch 2 bug that shuts down PCs

Overwatch 2 is not even ten days old and has already managed to acquire a rich list of problems - which players will be compensated with via various cosmetic tinkering and double xp weekends. Now Blizzard is investigating another bug, which some PC players are forced to deal with. Blizzard reports computers shutting down or restarting when players play Overwatch 2. They encourage affected players to submit their DXDIAG, which you can do via Blizzard's forums. Blizzard has released seve
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Blizzard apologizes for Overwatch 2 release

Overwatch 2 was released a couple of days ago, and some really lucky players have actually been able to play it. The usual server problems that appear at most releases of online games have been present, and Blizzard says that the game has been subjected to DDoS attacks. Now Blizzard has come out and apologized for the release, which they say did not meet the expectations of the players or their own. Regarding actually getting into the game, they say they’ve updated a server to make the logi
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BHVR ignoring the major problem of hackers in Dead by Daylight

So, this is nothing new by now, that cheaters are a problem in Dead by Daylight. What is sad though is that it's nothing new that Behaviour ignores the problem effectively ruining the game for its player base, streamers and content creators. In fact the problem is so bad right now that big name streamers are coming out of their silence and recognizing the problem. Streamers like Otzdarva and Spookyloopz, who by the way are in the Fog Whisperer program are now opening up. In the video below (spoi
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Bethesda support confirms - Starfield will be released in the first half of the year

It was recently rumored that Arkane's co-op vampire game Redfall has been pushed back a few weeks due to unspecified issues. It raises concerns that Starfield will also be affected, as both titles will be launched before the end of the year and Redfall will be first. But when Bethesda now threw up a support page for Starfield, it gives reassuring news: it says in black and white that the launch will take place in the first half of 2023. "Starfield arrives exclusively on Xbox Series X|S and
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Battlefield 7 Leak: Battle Royale Mode Planned For Launch & Specialists Returning

A new Battlefield 7 leak has just emerged that claims the game is in active development. Apparently a Battle Royale mode is planned for launch and the infamous Specialist's system is returning. The following text is a direct copy/paste from Reddit. You can read the post here. I am just putting it here to keep it from being deleted. What are your thoughts?
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Battlefield 2042's second season, Master of Arms, releases next week

EA has pulled the wraps off the next content update for Battlefield 2042 . The name will be Season Two - Master of Arms and already on August 30 it will be released. On Tuesday next week, that is. In terms of content, a new map, Stranded, is offered. There is an oil tanker stranded on the dried-up seabed, and there malevolent forces have established a weapons depot. A short film shows a stranded freighter on a dried-up lake bed in Panama. Tight battles indoors, waiting behind boxes and
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Assassin's Creed Valhalla: The Last Chapter concludes Eivor's story this fall

Almost two years old, Assassin's Creed Valhalla has received a bunch of updates and three expansions since its premiere. The latter in particular have moved Eivor's story forward, so while tonight's Ubisoft Forward broadcast focused primarily on the future of the series - we've also been told how this part ends. Sometime this fall, Assassin's Creed Valhalla will receive a final free expansion aptly named The Last Chapter. Here, Eivor's connection to Odin will be further explored as he/she l
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Assassin's Creed Mirage, formerly Rift, is said to be ready for release this spring

Rumors of a smaller, more traditional (a.k.a. more stealth, less action RPG) Assassin's Creed have been rife for a while, and we're allegedly set in Baghdad. The rumor mill picks up speed when Youtube profile j0nathan claims that the game we previously knew as Rift will be called Assassin's Creed Mirage. The release for the game, which "goes back to the origin", is due sometime this spring. Rumors are always rumors and should be taken at face value, but they are persistent in this case. The
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Amazon Games loses another heavy name

In March last year , Mike Frazzini stepped down as head of e-commerce giant Amazon's gaming venture. Now John Smedley, studio head of Amazon Games San Diego for the past six years, is doing the same. In a letter to employees, according to Bloomberg, Smedley writes that after much thought he decided to try something new. Smedley has previously worked with and for Everquest, Daybreak Games, Sony Online Entertainment and Planetside. In 2015, he stepped down as head of Daybreak, in part after r
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A Plague Tale: Requiem is 15-18 hours long

A Plague Tale: Innocence was a pretty big adventure that took most players 10-12 hours to run through, but the sequel seems to be a completely different beast. A Plague Tale: Requiem not only looks absolutely state-of-the-art and appears to have much deeper gameplay - it's also 50% longer. This is revealed by Lead level designer Kevin Pinson from Asobo Studio in an interview with Play Magazine (issue 19), where he tells us that the title will take 15-18 hours to play through. And he adds th
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A first look at The Division: Heartland

Ubisoft has released a first gameplay trailer for The Division: Heartland , the free-to-play game announced for spring 2021. In the film, we get a glimpse of Silver Creek, a small town in rural America where you fight against pandemics as well as human opponents in this team-based shooter. "This standalone free-to-play The Division game introduces new playable characters in a rural setting, far from the events in New York and Washington D.C. Silver Creek was once a pleasant town in the Amer
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7 minutes of gameplay from the Monster Hunter-like Wild Hearts

Dynasty Warriors developers Omega Force, together with EA, will enter the monster hunting genre with Wild Hearts. In the announcement trailer from last month we got to see some quick glimpses of gameplay, but now they're back with a proper seven minute gameplay trailer. There we get to see the player moving around in the game world, Azuma, and emphasize how big a role building various skin pairs will play, not only for easier hunting monsters, but also for getting around. The player builds,
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5 reasons why “007 First Light” could be the best Bond game of all time

Swedish MovieZine has spoken to the developers behind the "Hitman" series and the upcoming Bond game "007 First Light", about what we can expect from their take on the iconic spy. “007 First Light” is a new Bond game by IO Interactive, known for its “Hitman” series. The game is in development for PS5, Xbox Series X/S, PC and Nintendo Switch 2 – and will be released sometime in 2026. Here we meet a young and inexperienced James Bond who is recruited by MI6 and gets to carry out his first missions
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3 million players have cleaned virtually in Powerwash Simulator

Powerwash Simulator can now join the crowd of more or less strange simulators that have become very popular. Via Twitter, they announce that over three million people have now played the game. It was released in early access on Steam in the middle of last year and launched sharply on July 14 this year for PC and Xbox. Three million in just under two months, which can be considered really impressive. However, it should be added that it is not a matter of three million games sold, as the titl
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17-year-old arrested for Grand Theft Auto leak

It has been called one of the biggest leaks ever in the gaming world. Now a 17-year-old boy from London has been arrested. A police source tells The Desk that the boy was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the server breach of Rockstar Games and Take Two Interactive, the companies behind "Grand Theft Auto",  The Desk reports. On September 18, 90 clips of what were said to be gameplay sequences from the upcoming "Grand Theft Auto" game were posted online. "Hey, here are 90
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1 million plays Cyberpunk 2077 daily, claims CD Project

It's going well now, Cyberpunk 2077. The sad release (not least on the old-gen) is well documented, but in the wake of updates, the Netflix series Edgerunners and the disclosure of a expansion have rushed the number of players. In fact, CD Projects yesterday tweeted that the game was visited by 1 million players each day this week. CD Project thanks for the support of all "Chooms". The future looks bright, with the expansion Phantom Liberty on the horizon. While it will be the only expansio
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"Florida Joker" wants Rockstar to pay him "a million or two"

The GTA VI trailer was released last week, a little earlier than planned even, and at the time of writing has nearly 140 million views on YouTube . But not everyone was completely satisfied with getting the first official look at almost part of Rockstar's hit franchise. Lawrence "Florida Joker" Sullivan is a man nicknamed for his Joker-inspired facial tattoos and (once upon a time) green-dyed hair, and now he's angry that a character in GTA VI possibly inspired by him and the "mug shot" whi
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