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17 Essential Side-Quests To Find In Night City
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17 Essential Side-Quests To Find In Night City

Screenshot: CD Projekt Red / KotakuUnlike Panam, Judy, and Kerry, River is the one companion you have to go out of your way to meet. Finding the Night City cop and helping him sort through a local mystery that weaves in and out of his family life makes for one of the most interesting breaks in Cyberpunk 2077’s usual action. Expect a little combat and chatter, but also light adventure game mechanics and some pretty horrifying Night City lore.This questline does, however, unmask Cyberpunk 2077’s weird, inconsistent framing of cops and law enforcement, even weaponizing the ACAB saying in a particularly tacky lift that I’m not wild about. But if nothing else, these quests offer, for your inspection, a layer of the game’s inherent worldview that’s worth examining and dissecting.Available in: Ac...
Phantom Liberty Is Cyberpunk’s Only Expansion Because Of Unreal
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Phantom Liberty Is Cyberpunk’s Only Expansion Because Of Unreal

Screenshot: CD Projekt Red / KotakuCyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red says its upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, will serve as the game’s one and only expansion because of its “technological decision” to move from CDPR’s own REDengine technology to Unreal 5.Phantom Liberty Is Undoing One Key Thing That Cyberpunk Got RightDuring a Q&A portion of CD Project Red’s earnings call on Wednesday (h/t Video Games Chronicle), Michał Nowakowski, CD Projekt Red’s senior vice president of business, reiterated the developer’s previously stated stance on not making a second expansion to Cyberpunk 2077—regardless of whether or not Phantom Liberty’s sales do gangbusters—saying “the decision [not to] had already been made.”He continued:As we have announced a long time ago, we’re not going to mak...