Cyberpunk 2077 in its buggy state would have been disappointing enough to someone who had never heard of it and walked into a GameStop one day and bought it. But for the gamers out there that had been waiting for it for months —if not years— it was a monumental let-down. After all its hype, expectations were raised well beyond anywhere they should actually be, and in the end, Cyberpunk 2077 released in a state that was not at all what was presented. These two factors made for a perfect shit-storm. The time after its release would only serve to rub salt into the wounds of people that had looked forward to and bought Cyberpunk 20

In ‘Rancho Coronado,’ the Delamain cab is driving erratically through lawns. When V gets close enough to chat, the cab reveals that he hates the flamingo ornaments in the lawns and wants V to destroy all of them. This may be one of the most ridiculous (but also the most light-hearted) quests in all of Cyberpunk 2

The video game industry has always had a love affair with the cyberpunk genre and its aesthetics, as illustrated by games such as System Shock, Deus Ex , Shadowrun Returns , and most recently, open-world action-RPG **Cyberpunk 2077 ** . There’s potential, however, for game developers to introduce a new genre into their repertoire: solarpunk, a literary and artistic movement that defies the dystopian leanings of cyberpunk and other “punk” settings in favor of depicting decentralized, eco-friendly, and beautiful societies of the future. Designers looking to build games around the solarpunk genre have a rich array of visuals to draw from – communities with colorful, retro architecture, advanced technology co-mingling with greenery, and plausibly utopian-leaning social syst

Surprisingly, a lot of last-gen console players for Cyberpunk 2077 are taking to Reddit to post their somewhat serviceable experience with the game. That is despite all the bugs and glitches as well as the technical issues that plague the title since it was launched prematur

Now that the dust has settled for Cyberpunk 2077 it’s time to re-evaluate the current state of the game. It’s still a shiny and beautiful dumpster fire although that flame looks to be dying down gradually as the developers, CD Projekt RED, scramble to churn out updates that will fix the g

When players first begin Cyberpunk 2077 they will have access to a limited number of side gigs. Each gig is associated with a street cred level, so if players want to unlock more gigs they will need to work at raising their cred level as high as possible to unlock more tiers. The higher tiers of gigs will give players higher rewards as well, so in order to earn more money, they will need to boost their street cred as well. Players will need to keep in mind that some regions will require higher street cred levels to unlock the next tier of gigs, whereas some will require a much smaller le

The archetypical solarpunk city seen in paintings and speculative books mixes advanced technology and sustainable urban ecologies with design motifs from centuries past: Art Nouveau buildings with stained-glass windows and rooftop gardens, bio-engineered tree-buildings, old-fashioned electric trolley cars and blimps, a revival of hand-crafted goods, augmented reality networks, and, of course, solar panels everywhere. Nearly all of these snapshots of solarpunk scenery take place on sunny days, also featuring solar symbolism and bright primary col

That doesn’t matter though, because a lot of people would have still been disappointed by it. Cyberpunk 2077 patch Notes 2077 did something that all major releases try to do; it made an image of itself in the minds of gamers. And its biggest mistake, and one that rendered the marketing budget and advertising time all worthless, was setting such high expectations with its market

Now, CD Projekt Red has to deal with the repercussions of its morbid marketing campaign. Besides a landslide of refunds of the game being doled out by Sony, Microsoft , and GameStop , CD Projekt Red may have some legal trouble on its hands as well. A Manhattan-based law firm filed a suit last week against CD Projekt Red on behalf of anyone that bought stock in the company. Part of the press release regarding the lawsuit explicitly cites the “defendants’ (CD Projekt Red) statements about its business, operations, and prospects,” calling them “materially fal

Many of the problems in the modern world can be solved; brilliant scientists, activists, and social reformers across the world have been innovating practical, compassionate solutions to problems like poverty, inequality, prejudice, police brutality, and environmental damage. True, implementing these solutions on a large scale will take hard work, investment, and far-reaching changes to the structure of societies, but it can be done, as long as people believe it can. And what better way to inspire people to work towards better worlds than by creating simulations of these better worlds for them to explore and experiment w