Cyberpunk 2077 News

Cyberpunk 2077 board game casually strolls its cybernetic robo-legs past crowdfunding campaign goal in about ten minutes, is now over 1000% eddied up

Cyberpunk 2077 fans, it would seem, love a good board game. They love em so much, in fact, that a new official one from CD Projekt and Go On Board - inventively dubbed Cyberpunk 2077: The Board Game - has not only surpassed the $100,000 crowdfunding goal its campaign launched with today, it's raised over 10x that much cash.

As a number of CD Projekt devs have pointed out, it took only 10 minutes and 4 seconds for the board game to raise that $100k, which is pretty damn impressive, and, as of writing, the total now sits at a cool $1,017,379.

That's over 1,000% of the funding goal - a concept which is breaking my brain a bit - from just over 6,300 backers. So what are those backers so keen to lob their eddies at?

CD Projekt Red (CDPR) co-CEO Michal Nowakowski confirmed during a recent earnings call that the team will be looking at further animation projects within the world of Cyberpunk, mostly thanks to the overwhelming success of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners...
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Wahey, The Witcher 4 has had "substantial progress" made on it, with CD Projekt "gearing up" to put the game into full production

CD Projekt has revealed that the game codenamed project Polaris - that "first instalment in the new Witcher saga" that we've all been referring to as The Witcher 4 just to make thing a bit less confusing until a proper name is slapped on it - is just about ready to enter full production.

According to joint CEO Michał Nowakowski in a press release detailing the studio's latest earnings figures and progress on its current projects, preproduction on Polaris is on track to wrap up soon, with the developers "nearing a major milestone" that'll mark this point. So, as of right now, CD Projekt is "gearing up" to launch into that next phase.

In an earnings video that adds the this smorgasbord of witchery info, CD Projekt CFO Piotr Nielubowicz added that in the first half of 2024, the Polaris development team has "made substantial progress", which will allow that step into full production to be taken "soon".

CD Projekt RED недавно разместила новые вакансии, которые могут указывать на то, что Cyberpunk 2 будет позиционироваться как экшен-RPG — специалистов с опытом работы над такими играми студия сейчас ищет.

Black Myth: Wukong is currently Steam's most played game as it continues to break records

As I write this, Black Myth: Wukong, the action adventure from China’s Game Science studio, is the most played game on Steam by player count. There are currently 1,400,932 players in-game (with a peak of 1,443,570), surpassing the likes of Counter-Strike 2, Dota 2, PUBG and all the usual games that occupy Steam’s top five.

Wukong’s launch was already predicted to be strong, with the game being Steam’s number one seller for several weeks, but the concurrent player figures are quite staggering for a single-player, offline game.