Cyberpunk 2077 Is Now Playable from Start to Finish

Cyberpunk 2077 has hit a development milestone, with CD Projekt Red explaining that the game is now playable from start to finish internally.

In an interview with Engadget, producer Richard Borzymowski explained that the game can be played through from beginning to end, with the story in place. It’s still missing assets, includes bugs and requires playtesting, but this is a major step.

“It gives you the answers to all of your doubts,” Borzymowski said. “It just feels great.”

Despite that step forward, Cyberpunk 2077’s release date remains something of a mystery – even down to what year it will arrive in. CDPR says it’s targeting current-gen consoles, which, based on recent reports, puts it at some point before the end of 2020. However, Cyberpunk creator Mike Pondsmith has cautioned that “perfection takes time”.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Makes its Mayan Apocalypse Matter

Shadow of the Tomb Raider will be the final chapter in Lara Croft’s origin story, a transformation we’ve watched over the last five years as she evolves from a budding archaeologist reacting to a series of life-threatening circumstances, to a proactive agent of change in the world.

In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara’s hunting Trinity, trying to dismantle it cell by cell and stop the organization from doing… something terrible. And that’s Lara’s problem, really. She’s so focused on the prevention of Trinity’s machinations, that she fails to fully vet her own actions. The consequence of this blind stop-them-at-all-cost motivation is her inadvertent triggering of an ancient apocalyptic scenario. Oops.

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