Pokemon Go‘s Sinnoh Celebration event is underway until January 17, and it’ll be followed by a Hoenn Celebration next week. That event will kick off on January 19, and now developer Niantic has shared more details about what Pokemon and bonuses will be available.
Throughout the Hoenn Celebration event, the following Pokemon will be appearing in the wild more frequently than usual:
Treecko
Torchic
Mudkip
Taillow
Loudred
Nosepass
Aron (and Shiny Aron)
Meditite
Roselia
Carvanha
Numel
Baltoy
In addition to those wild spawns, the following Pokemon will be hatching from 5 km eggs throughout the event:
Little Nightmares 2 is less than a month away from release, and to celebrate, publisher Bandai Namco is giving away free copies of the first game on PC. From now until January 17, you can claim a free Steam code for Little Nightmares via Bandai Namco’s website. Codes will be delivered via email within two weeks, and the sign-up page says “while supplies last,” so you may want to get your name on the list quickly.
This isn’t the only way to snag Little Nightmares for free this month–Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers can claim Little Nightmares right now as part of January’s Games with Gold offerings. It’s free on Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S for members until January 31.
CD Projekt Red co-founder Marcin Iwiński appeared on a video today to apologize on behalf of the company and the leadership team over the launch of Cyberpunk 2077. Iwiński promises more updates will be regularly delivered along with free content, including the promised free next-gen upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X, now targeting the “second half of 2021”
CD Projekt never revealed when a next-gen upgrade for Cyberpunk 2077 will be released, other than that it would be released for free sometime in 2021. But now, Iwiński confirms that players will likely not see the update until the latter half of the year.
Iwiński’s video, which is nearly five minutes long, briefly touched on several questions about Cyberpunk 2077’s launch, including why there’s such a gap between PC and console versions of Cyberpunk 2077, and over how it handled review copies.
In regards to bringing Cyberpunk 2077 to consoles, especially older ones, Iwiński says “things did not look super difficult at first, while we knew the hardware game, ultimately, time has proven that we’ve underestimated the task.”
He says the main culprit was the in-game streaming system, which is “responsible for ‘feeding’ the engine with what you see on screen, as well as the game mechanics.” Iwiński cites the disk bandwidth performance on older systems as being unable to keep up with the packed city design.
Iwiński also says its internal testing “did not show many of the issues” players experienced and that each day of work “saw significant improvements” to performance.
As for early 2021, CD Projekt will push several patches regularly throughout the year. The first update will be released “in the next 10 days” and a larger “more significant update” will be released weeks after that.
CDPR’s new road map. Source: CD Projekt
There are still plans to release free DLC as with The Witcher 3, but they may not target “early 2021” as previously expected as CDPR has shifted its priority to “working on the most important fixes and updates” and DLC will follow afterward.
