CD Projekt winds up Cyberpunk 2077 fans with fifth anniversary post, then cruelly breaks their hearts: 'We’re not teasing anything'

CD Projekt winds up Cyberpunk 2077 fans with fifth anniversary post, then cruelly breaks their hearts: ‘We’re not teasing anything’

Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10, 2020, which means that the fifth anniversary is just over a week away. Despite that age, and the fact that it’s a singleplayer RPG with no live service grind, its peak concurrent player count today on Steam—and only Steam—was nearly 44,000. That’s genuinely astounding, especially when you consider that…

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Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites – A Major Free Update Powered by Community Feedback and Player Insights

Summary Ghost Recon Wildlands: Last Rites is out now. The free update includes a new mission, several community-requested features, and the return of the Predator mission. Game Director Benjamin Rousseau Lemaire and Live Strategy & Analytics Director Yossef Benzeghadi share their insights on the new gameplay features and how community feedback helped the Last Rites…

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Altera is a hardcore, realistic, unforgiving military survival sandbox, so of course it features penguin soldiers with reflex sights on their heads

On the face of it, Altera looks like a typical military survival sandbox. It’s a game about wandering through a massive, vaguely central European landscape in military camo, building a base, crafting useful items, and taking on missions from dead-eyed NPCs to shoot other dead-eyed NPCs in authentic ranged combat. It’s basically DayZ without the…

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Anker recalls a number of power banks amid safety fears, though it says that ‘the likelihood of malfunction is considered minimal’

Rechargeable lithium-ion cells power almost every aspect of our portable lives, as they can be found in practically every smartwatch, phone, laptop, and handheld gaming PC. We use them constantly and rarely experience problems, but given how much energy they store, when they do go wrong, you need to get them replaced pronto. That’s exactly…

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I’m not built for whatever I heard in Phasmophobia’s Chronicle update, which adds terrifying new sounds you can’t afford to run from

The big Phasmophobia Chronicle update launches tomorrow, June 24, and brings a long list of bug fixes and tool reworks with it. As part of the tool shake-up, developer Kinetic Games also overhauled the journal’s media section for capturing evidence. It’s great if you’re tired of being limited to a photo camera. But, if you’re…

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