Early on in Cyberpunk 2077, there's a series of side quests that has you tracking down rogue taxis run by faulty AI. You have to talk one of the taxis down from suicide as it contemplates driving off a bridge, while another needs to be brute-forced into behaving, and a third is an obvious reference to a famous video game AI that manipulates you as you chase it down. It's one of the best minor questlines in the game, an intriguing and surprisingly human substory that rewards you with lots of much-needed cash. It's also an excuse to send you to every corner of Night City, a clever introduction to all the areas you haven't yet been.I spent a lot of my playtime following side-quest threads like this one, excited about the premise and hoping to find something as interesting or fun or rewarding at the end and, in many cases, I did. But now, after finishing the main story, I can't see how most of those activities fit into the overall narrative or the character I was playing. The main story doesn't even gel with itself.Cyberpunk 2077 draws heavily from its source material, with everything from the world itself to the life and death of Johnny Silverhand coming from its pen-and-paper inspiration. But unlike in a tabletop RPG, you aren't playing a role of your own creation in Cyberpunk 2077; you're playing V, and this is V's story, not yours. I often felt like I was role-playing two different characters: one V for the side quests and one more limited V for the main story.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Oscar Isaac, best-known for his role as Poe Dameron in the latest Star Wars trilogy, has been tapped to play Solid Snake in Sony's Metal Gear Solid movie adaptation, Deadline reports. Funnily enough, Issac jokingly cast himself as Solid Snake back in March 2019 during the press tour for J. C. Chandor’s action-adventure film Triple Frontier.The movie is being helmed by Kong: Skull Island director Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who gave an update on the over six-year-long project in July 2020. Derek Connolly, co-writer of the latest Jurassic World trilogy, is penning the script. Avi Arad, one of the producers of the critically acclaimed animated superhero movie Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, is producing. Sony Pictures is overseeing the entire project, while Peter Kang severing as the executive.Vogt-Roberts confirmed the report later on December 4 with a picture of Isaac along with several emojis that should be familiar to the series' fans. He also retweeted several other posts that mentioned Isaac playing Snake.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Game Awards will be streamed this Thursday, December 10, at 3:30 PM PT / 6:30 PM ET, and it's one of the most prestigious events in video gaming. Viewership has increased every year since it began, and it looks like even more people will be able to enjoy the show this year. For the first time, The Game Awards will include a special audio descriptive mode during the stream. The show's creator and product Geoff Keighley made the announcement on December 5, adding that the mode will be available via YouTube Gaming. The mode should allow those who have low vision or no vision to still enjoy the show by detailing what is happening on the stage.I’m happy to confirm that #TheGameAwards will have a special audio descriptive mode livestream on @YouTubeGaming for the first time.Accessibility matters. — Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 5, 2020We've seen games move toward greater accessibility for players with low vision recently, offering audio description for menus and other text. In the case of Watch Dogs: Legion, the game even has a narrator say "press [X] button" by default when you start it up.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fall Guys will soon enter Season 3, bringing in new mini-games and features to its unique spin on game shows and battle royale. We'll learn more in just a few days, and developer Mediatonic is already teasing some of the new costumes prior to a larger reveal. In a post on the game's official Twitter account, we see four new costumes for the game. They show off a red-nosed reindeer, a candle, a yeti, and what looks to be some sort of ice queen. It appears there is much more in store for Season 3, and we will see the game again on December 10 at The Game Awards.Woo woo!Here's the 4 costumes of the costumes from Season 3!If you'd like to see more... make sure you watch@thegameawards with @geoffkeighley 10th December 👀 pic.twitter.com/uAZAYgXa5L — Fall Guys 👑 (@FallGuysGame) December 6, 2020Fall Guys and The Game Awards' producer Geoff Keighley worked together on the Season 2 content reveal, as well. Keighley shared new costumes during Gamescom: Opening Night Live way back in August, and the theme was medieval. With Christmas almost here, Season 3's theme certainly makes sense.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Two BioWare veterans recently left the company, but the developer continues to work on Dragon Age 4, and it won't be long until we see more of the game.A "special look" at the next Dragon Age is coming during The Game Awards this Thursday, December 10. No further details on what the reveal will entail were divulged.Don't miss a special look at the next DRAGON AGE from @bioware during #TheGameAwards next Thursday. pic.twitter.com/zPKHWroH7i — Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) December 4, 2020While we have to wait a little while longer to see more of Dragon Age 4, BioWare has just released brand-new short stories and a series of pieces of art for the RPG.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

It is a big week for gaming, as CD Projekt Red's long-awaited Cyberpunk 2077 finally releases on December 10 after many years of development and multiple delays. You can buy the game at a variety of stores, so you might be wondering where to get it. If you're after the PC edition, CD Projekt Red reminded fans that the developer gets 100% of the sales money if you buy from the company's own digital store, GOG.Planning on getting #Cyberpunk2077? Here's a small reminder: if you purchase it on @GOGcom, 100% of your money will go to the CD PROJEKT Group! Pre-order here: https://t.co/APjzqr2JsG pic.twitter.com/wegtsJLJWj — Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 6, 2020On other platforms, such as PlayStation, Xbox, and Steam, CD Projekt Red takes about 70% of sales due to the platform fees associated with each platform.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Activision has released some details on just how massive the Call of Duty franchise is, saying in a news release that the series has surpassed $3 billion in sales over the past 12 months. Additionally, the number of people playing Call of Duty and the hours spent in the games is breaking records. The milestones come after the launch of Black Ops Cold War, which one analyst believes is not selling as well as 2019's extremely popular Call of Duty: Modern Warfare.Activision's numbers state that Call of Duty sales, or "net bookings" in the company's parlance, are up 80% year-to-date, with units sold through up by more than 40%. The press release did not provide any further granularity on what the "units" is referring to.The press release also mentioned that more than 200 million people have played a Call of Duty game in 2020, across all instalments. For console and PC specifically, the Call of Duty franchise has reached the "highest number of players in recorded history" in 2020. What's more, November 2020 was the "biggest" November on record for the Call of Duty franchise in terms of monthly players and hours played.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Gaming giant Activision is taking Netflix to court over what the Call of Duty company says is a pattern of unethical and illegal behaviour on the streaming company's part for poaching executives. This is all related to Spencer Neumann, the former Activision CFO who left the gaming company in 2018 to join Netflix as its top finance executive.In its lawsuit, which was obtained by Deadline, Activision said, "Netflix unapologetically recruits talent without regard to its ethical and legal obligations. To shape its workforce to its desires, Netflix not only ruthlessly fires its own employees that it deems 'adequate,' but is engaged in a years-long campaign of unlawfully poaching executives from Netflix's competitors regardless of their contractual obligations."Activision claims Netflix is disregarding California law, including the Labor Code, with its actions. According to Activision, Netflix "knowingly induced Neumann to breach his employment contract with Activision." Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Actor Viggo Mortensen, who played Aragorn in The Lord of the Rings film series, has revealed that Peter Jackson filmed another scene with Aragorn and Arwen (Liv Tyler) that aimed to show more of their young love, but it was ultimately cut.Asked by NME if there was any part of Aragorn's story that he would have liked to explore more, Mortensen referenced a flashback scene with Aragorn and Arwen. Aragorn was dressed like an elf in this scene, he he was clean-shaven and "prettied up" for the flashback sequence."There was a scene that we shot as a sort of memory flashback. It was from the courtship days when he first met Arwen--and we shot it just before we were taking a break so I was clean-shaven and prettied up," he said. "They'd tried to make me look as young as possible. I had different hair and I was dressed like an elf."Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Xbox is gearing up for the next step in its "#PowerYourDreams" marketing campaign, which has been used throughout the launch of the Xbox Series X and S. The next ad, which is due to drop on December 7, looks like it's going to feature Master Chief in some capacity.With Halo Infinite due in 2021, any new Xbox ad that features Master Chief is likely to draw speculation and whip up excitement. Here's a teaser for what's to come, posted by the official Xbox Twitter account.This will be one of those dreams you don’t forget... #PowerYourDreams pic.twitter.com/pdFMbJDdph — Xbox (@Xbox) December 6, 2020Following this tweet, Xbox senior marketing manager John Munsee hinted at the bigger reveal on the way, promising a "full reveal" soon. Whether this means we'll actually receive new Halo Infinite news or not remains to be seen, but the game is likely to be a big part of Microsoft's marketing push for 2021.However, Halo Infinite being part of their marketing does not mean you should expect major news--Halo Infinite will be skipping the Game Awards this week, which would have been a major platform to debut important details.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red's next big game, Cyberpunk 2077, releases on December 10, but that's just the start. The game will be playable on the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S through backwards compatibility, but the true next-gen editions aren't releasing for some time longer.When Does Cyberpunk 2077 Release For PS5 And Xbox Series X|S?The bespoke editions of Cyberpunk 2077 for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S are penciled in for 2021 at the soonest. Business development boss Michal Nowakowski said of the new-gen editions, "When it comes to a proper, full-blown next-gen version, that's going to come later."People playing Cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S will see some improvements due to the power of those machines, however. "It will look better on next-generation consoles," CDPR has said.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In November, a major Super Smash Bros. online tournament was canceled after a cease and desist from Nintendo, which took issue with the tournament's use of the "Slippi" mod to play Super Smash Bros. Melee--a game released for the GameCube in 2001, and never re-released--online. Now, the controversy over that decision has spilled over into the competitive Splatoon 2 scene.Heading into the December 5-7 weekend, Nintendo was advertising the upcoming Splatoon 2 North American Open on its Twitter channels, and promising a livestream. However, on the day, the stream was canceled, with a Discord announcement (screenshotted in this Reddit thread) not providing many details for what was happening.Fans and players are pretty sure they know what happened, though. As commentator Slimy points out, about 30% of players in the competition had "FreeMelee", or similar, in their usernames. It's likely, although unconfirmed, that Nintendo canceled the livestream because of this.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for Wonder Woman 1984. The 60-second spot features a heartfelt voiceover heralding Diana's journey in the sequel.Director Patty Jenkins debuted the new trailer at the CCXP Worlds 2020 event today.After multiple delays related to COVID-19, Warner Bros. made a major change for Wonder Woman 1984 when it announced the film will play on HBO Max and in theatres on Christmas Day. After this announcement, Warner Bros. announced that its entire 2021 movie slate would be available on HBO Max and in theatres where they are open.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

After years of development and multiple delays, CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 is finally releasing on December 10. But launch is just the beginning. In addition to the expansions to the single-player campaign, which will be revealed later, CD Projekt Red has another team working on a standalone multiplayer game set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe.But when is it releasing? CDPR has not locked in a date yet, but it probably won't be soon. In terms of a release date for Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer game, CDPR says you should expect it to release in 2022 at the soonest.CDPR executive Adam Kicinski recently spoke about the game during an earnings briefing. He said it's not right to call it just a "mode" for Cyberpunk 2077.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The Game Awards will air on December 10, 2020, and voting for the Player's Choice game of the year is still open. Separate from the full nominee list, voted on by press and industry, the third and final round of the Player's Choice vote has whittled the entries down to five games, with one a clear frontrunner.The five titles, in order of votes right now, are as follows:The Last of Us Part IIGhost of TsushimaHadesDoom EternalMarvel's Spider-Man: Miles MoralesYou can vote for your favorite right here.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com