Tag: Cyberpunk 2077

How CD Projekt Red survived

Are you looking to showcase your brand in front of the gaming industry’s top leaders? Learn more about GamesBeat Summit sponsorship opportunities here.  The DICE Summit in Las Vegas gathers the most important creatives, game directors, and business types each year. This year’s theme is resilience. On Wednesday, Gabe Amatangelo gave a talk on lessons […]

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Honda’s CES concept cars are more Cyberpunk 2077 than the cars in Cyberpunk 2077, and I challenge anyone to convince me otherwise

Tech events aren’t always about PC components or wearable gadgets, as demonstrated by Honda’s Space Hub stand at the CES 2024. On show were two concept cars that gave me such Cyberpunk 2077 vibes that I spent an hour in the game checking out the different vehicles, before coming to the simple conclusion: Honda’s vision […]

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Attic find! 13 years later I see just how far this former world champion graphics card can go in delivering a good PC gaming experience in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, GTA 5, Baldur’s Gate 3, Cyberpunk 2077, Starfield, and other top games today in 2023

Navigate this feature quickly PC gaming never changes. Sure as night follows day, elite PC gaming hardware will, often within just a few months of release, be dethroned by something even faster and more powerful. It may, if a PC gamer is lucky, take more than a year to happen. But one thing is certain, […]

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You can almost triple your frame rate in Cyberpunk 2077 using multiple GPUs, but SLI this ain’t

Artificial frame generation technology. Even typing those words feels vaguely science-fiction, but ever since the release of Nvidia’s DLSS 3 Frame Generation (and much later, AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames), it’s become a concept that’s gone beyond the theoretical into the everyday. However, Korean technology website QuasarZone (via Videocardz) has taken things to a new extreme […]

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Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption is complete, but the future remains murky for CD Projekt

It’s official: Cyberpunk 2077’s redemption arc is complete. It feels like after three years of flagellation, CD Projekt can finally move on. But I can’t help but think the company’s future is still murky.  The Witcher 3 was a masterpiece, firmly establishing CDP’s original studio, CD Projekt Red, as one of the best RPG development […]

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My V in Cyberpunk 2077 has absolutely no game at all, and I kind of love him for it

Romances in RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 are… let’s call them awkward. Most of the time, this isn’t on purpose. We’re supposed to feel cool, like Commander Shepard the bonafide badass space ranger, not some Joe Shmuck who strikes out and uses “xD” in text messages. In reality, it’s so hard to make a game character […]

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My V in Cyberpunk 2077 has absolutely no game at all, and I love him for it

Romances in RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 are… let’s call them awkward. Most of the time, this isn’t on purpose. We’re supposed to feel cool, like Commander Shepard the bonafide badass space ranger, not some Joe Shmuck who strikes out and uses “xD” in text messages. In reality, it’s so hard to make a game character […]

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I was obsessed with real-time ray tracing in Cyberpunk 2077, until playing it on an older laptop delivered a sorely needed slap to the face

For a long time, no matter how hard I tried, and no matter how much of a performance hit my framerate took in Cyberpunk 2077, I just couldn’t bring myself to play without real-time ray tracing toggled on. It got even worse when Overdrive Mode arrived. What’s that?! Even more pretty lighting effects with an […]

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You can already hack Ray Reconstruction into Cyberpunk 2077 without the path tracing limitation, but Nvidia promises to open it up officially soon

Ray Reconstruction is the latest shiny ray tracing feature Nvidia, it’s come along as part of DLSS 3.5 and it’s made the Cyperpunk 2077 2.0 update look absolutely gorgeous. On Nvidia graphics cards only, of course. And only for Nvidia graphics cards that are capable of delivering a decent frame rate in the incredibly demanding […]

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Cyberpunk 2077 2.0’s new Edgerunners easter eggs just hit me with an existential crisis all over again

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is fantastic, and—like Cyberpunk 2077 itself—it’s something I hadn’t engaged with until recently. I’m new to the post-corpo war hellscape of this setting, but I figured after sinking about 20 hours into the game itself I might as well check out this anime everyone’s been raving about. Spoilers ahead for Edgerunners, obviously. I […]

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I’m so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal

I’ve never played Cyberpunk 2077 until recently. I didn’t have this job when it came out, I didn’t have a PC that could run it, and its massive bug baggage gave me pause. Add in some (well articulated) critiques about how the story handles its punk, anti-establishment roots, and I felt better off. Well, now […]

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You can do sick motorcycle rocket jumps in Cyberpunk 2077 with a gun that takes 5 minutes to find, and it’s nearly impossible to control

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out next week, but you can play the 2.0 update now. It’s added a whole host of tune-ups like vehicular combat, new skill trees, balance tweaks to the RPG system, and a revamped police force—but who cares about that? You can do cool rocket jumps on your motorbike now, which […]

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You can do sick motorcycle rocket jumps in Cyberpunk 2077 with a gun that takes 5 minutes to find, and it’s nearly impossible to control

Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty is out next week, but you can play the 2.0 update now. It’s added a whole host of tune-ups like vehicular combat, new skill trees, balance tweaks to the RPG system, and a revamped police force—but who cares about that? You can do cool rocket jumps on your motorbike now, which […]

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You can prep for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and get a preem free gun on launch day—all you have to do is download Gwent

CD Projekt Red has this whole rewards system thing going on with Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Jumping through a few simple hoops will net you some pretty cool rewards—like a snazzy pistol that sets people on fire—and all it’ll cost you is your time. As outlined on the My Goodies page, registering for the My […]

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You can prep for Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty and get a preem free gun on launch day—all you have to do is download Gwent

CD Projekt Red has this whole rewards system thing going on with Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty. Jumping through a few simple hoops will net you some pretty cool rewards—like a snazzy pistol that sets people on fire—and all it’ll cost you is your time. As outlined on the My Goodies page, registering for the My […]

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I’ve tested Nvidia’s latest ray tracing magic in Cyberpunk 2077 and it’s a no-brainer. At worst it’s just better-looking, at best it’s that and a whole lot more performance

The new Cyberpunk 2077 2.0 update is out and, as part of CDPR and Nvidia’s long-standing effort to make it the new Crysis, it features an entirely new take on ray traced realism. Called Ray Reconstruction, this new DLSS feature literally grounds everything in the game, and makes the previous Overdrive ray tracing mode look […]

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Creator of radical Starfield stealth kill montage talks virtual choreography and Cyberpunk 2077—’regarding combat and stealth … Cyberpunk takes the cake’

I love a good choreographed kill video. There’s something so crunchy and satisfying about seeing someone elevate a game like Starfield—similar to the rush you get watching your favourite wrestler or a movie like John Wick. You know it’s all been pre-planned, you know there’s some kayfabe involved, but it’s sick enough that you don’t […]

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