Cyberpunk 2077 is almost upon us, with its release date of December 10 creeping ever closer. Now, depending on what platform you plan to play it on, the game is available for preloading if you've already bought it. As the below tweet shows, you can now preload the game on Steam and the Epic Games Store, while Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S owners can also start their downloads. PS4 and PS5 owners will get in on the preloading action very soon.⏰ Pre-load of #Cyberpunk2077 on @Steam and @EpicGames is now available!⏰ — Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 7, 2020The wait is almost over!If you're looking to play #Cyberpunk2077 as soon as it's available, here's a map with global release timings. For PC and Stadia players, the release is simultaneous and scheduled for midnight GMT, and for all console players – midnight local time. pic.twitter.com/W0QLIFAhH1 — Cyberpunk 2077 (@CyberpunkGame) December 3, 2020With non-PC platforms, things are a little more complicated. According to an official release map, preloading has been available on Xbox since December 3. However, preloading won't be enabled until two days prior to the release date on PS4 and PS5, meaning that it's not available until tomorrow. The game is also available for preload on GOG, the storefront that is also owned by the publisher of the game.It's worth noting that, while the game can be played on next-gen consoles, the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S-enhanced versions of Cyberpunk aren't available yet. Those updates are without a release date, but they won't be out this year.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Update: Activision will unveil the first official gameplay look at Season 1 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone at this year's The Game Awards on December 10 at 4 PM PT / 7 PM ET.See it first.Tune-in to @thegameawards on December 10 at 4PM PT for the Gameplay Trailer World Premiere of Season One in #BlackOpsColdWar and #Warzone. pic.twitter.com/Tt0OY7D9DC — Call of Duty (@CallofDuty) December 7, 2020The original story follows below...After delaying the release of Season 1 for Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Warzone to December 16, a new trailer has unveiled what both games will get when the season kicks off.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Nvidia and GOG are finally kicking off their GeForce Now streaming partnership with one of the biggest games of 2020, with Cyberpunk 2077 being the first officially supported title from the digital storefront.GeForce Now is Nvidia's own take on game streaming. Instead of paying for games exclusive to its service, like Google Stadia, it pulls supported games from launchers where you have already purchased them, such as Steam and the Epic Games Store. Until this week GOG had not officially announced support, but that changes this week with Cyberpunk 2077."Players around the world, who own the game on GOG.COM, will be able to play the game via the cloud gaming service, exploring the streets of Night City on nearly any device including low-powered or incompatible Windows and Mac laptops, Chromebooks and more," the announcement reads.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Cyberpunk 2077 generated a lot of buzz over the past few years. From its ever-expanding file size to Keanu Reeves' involvement, the sci-fi open-world RPG sparked conversations even before anybody got their hands on it, thanks in large part to its pedigree. This is the new game from CD Projekt Red, the studio behind the acclaimed The Witcher III: Wild Hunt, often heralded as one of the best games of the last decade.So does the actual content live up to its pre-release hype? Critics offered varying flavors of: It depends on what gameplay element you're looking at. Most applauded the game's beautiful technical construction and generally engaging RPG elements, but also noted the pre-release build's many bugs. Some critics also thought Cyberpunk 2077 was very tame, as opposed to its marketed edginess. For a game with "cyberpunk" in its title, a couple reviewers thought it wasn't revolutionary nor groundbreaking, and instead felt like a knit of past cultural and gaming references.Cyberpunk 2077 is a pretty big game with a lot of side content, with some critics noting they weren't able to fully explore everything. Completion of Cyberpunk 2077's main storyline is estimated to be around 30 hours, and if you want to explore everything the game has to offer, it will be a much longer playtime.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Animal Crossing: New Horizons players dominated Tumblr in 2020. The small-town-with-animals simulator topped the video game and overall list of trendiest topics, beating out every other topic on the website.Fans of the series have flooded Tumblr with original artwork, memes, and posts about their favorite villagers. Some have used the platform to expand on the relationships of their favorite in-game characters, like Flick and CJ. Others have made simple jokes about memorable in-game moments.Flick & CJ. Credt: chicinlicinRaymond, Marshal, Poppy, and Fauna came in as the most popular Animal Crossing villagers while Tom Nook, everyone's favorite tanuki landlord, was the third most popular video game character. He was more popular than Cloud Strife, Arthur Morgan, and Link on Tumblr.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Since the disastrous release of Nvidia's RTX 30 series, many PC gamers have struggled to obtain the latest and greatest GPUs that they desire, particularly the 3070, 3080 and 3090. (We reviewed the first two of those, if you're interested in their performance.) However, some enterprising thieves in China have taken the shortages to the next level. According to MSI, 40 cargo boxes worth of top-end GPUs were stolen from an MSI factory in China.For those of you counting at home, that's over 200 RTX 3090s, which currently retail at around $1500. However, thanks to the ongoing GPU shortage--which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic--the 3090 often goes for $2000 or even more on sites like eBay.MSI Chinese mainland factory was stolen, stolen 40 boxes RTX3090, the total value of 2200000RMB ......😓MSI has been officially announced and informed to the police ,Reward of 100000 RMB for reporting effective information. pic.twitter.com/JWw8hOMioG — 夕惕若厉 (@GoFlying8) December 7, 2020According to Tom's Hardware, MSI believes that an insider stole the cards because the factory's shipping area is covered by video cameras. They're also offering clemency to those who participated in the heist, as long as they help recover the cards. There's a 100,000 Yuan reward ($15,314) for anyone who has additional information on the cards.Info from Gamespot.com

Now that the next-gen consoles are out, console manufacturers Sony and Microsoft are working hard to show off the games that will be coming to the Xbox Series X/S and the PlayStation 5 over the next year or two. A new montage from Sony has revealed some details about exclusivity periods for notable games like Deathloop, Ghostwire Tokyo, Gran Turismo 7, and more.For example, Gran Turismo 7 appears to be a true PS5 exclusive, with no apparent plans for any other releases, even on the PS4, whereas the stylish shooter Deathloop will be exclusive to the PS5 (and not other consoles) for one year after its release date. However, it will be available on PC at launch.Ghostwire Tokyo has the same deal as Deathloop, with one year of PS5 console exclusivity and a simultaneous PC launch. Project Athia will also be available for PC at launch, but it will be console-exclusive on the PS5 for two years after its release date. The montage also highlights already-released PS5 exclusives like the Demon's Souls remake and console-exclusive Godfall. For a full list of PS5 games, check out our list of confirmed and expected PS5 games.Info from Gamespot.com

Last week, Warner Bros. rocked the entertainment world with an unprecedented announcement: Every one of their 2021 releases would hit their streaming service, HBO Max, simultaneously with theatrical release. This means that in the upcoming year, major blockbusters like The Suicide Squad, Dune, and Godzilla vs. Kong will be available to watch from the comfort of your living room right away. It's a plan they're rolling out this month with the release of Wonder Woman 1984, the pilot film in the program, which will be in theatres were available and on HBO Max on Christmas day.The plan has, unsurprisingly, caused quite a stir. Designed with the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic in mind, Warner Bros. maintains that this is a temporary solution and will only extend through the end of 2021--but some of their partners in production are less than thrilled about the arrangement.Variety reports that Legendary Entertainment, the co-finaner of films like Dune and Godzilla vs. Kong are considering legal action to fight against the decision. Sources say that, while no challenge has been filed yet, a potential breach of contract may be used as grounds to take things to court. Apparently the top brass of Legendary feel as though Warner Bros was not transparent in their intentions leading up to the big announcement, leaving those with financial stakes in the films without say in how their films were distributed.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Fortnite's Season 5 added 40 non-playable characters to the battle royale. They are spread out across the map, with some spawning in multiple locations, and can give players special weapons, upgrades, missions, and bounty contracts. This guide will give you the locations of every NPC that's currently available in-game. It'll also give you tips on how to best reach all of them.Where Is Every Fortnite NPC Located?NPCs are spread across the map, some with multiple spawn locations, as detailed in the map below.Fortnite NPC MapThere are multiple quirks to how the NPC system works, including the fact that NPCs spawn at different locations from game-to-game. You may go to a specific locations to talk to a character, but you won't always find them. You'll need to visit every location that NPC spawns at in order to complete the in-game log. It might take several attempts to complete.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Battlefield 5 received a major fall update just a few weeks ago, and we're already getting another patch. However, update 7.3 is a relatively minor one, focused on fixing small but persistent bugs, such as making sure that unlockable cosmetics are actually unlocking, and fixing paint jobs for specific planes.We've got the full patch notes below, but the most notable fix is for a bug that caused EA Play users to show up as Trial Users, which caused many players to complain. The patch also updates the game's loading screen with some new artwork.Battlefield 5's fall update rolled out on November 17, and it added two new Elite soldiers to the game, as well as a panoply of cosmetic items. It also fixed the broken Globetrotter achievement, which trophy hunters certainly appreciated. The update overhauled the Community Games feature, giving players the ability to customize their own games. Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

In a collaboration with this year's The Game Awards, developer Cococucumber has released a demo of its turn-based action-adventure game Echo Generation for PC and Xbox consoles.The alpha demo, which can be played on PC via Steam and Xbox Series X|S and One, will be available to play until December 15. Echo Generation is slated to launch sometime in 2021.Echo Generation is set in a sleepy Canadian town in 1993, following a group of kids as they seek to understand and set right the otherwordly mysteries unraveling around them. It's reminiscent of recent nostalgia-trips like Crossing Souls while harkening back to classic '80s films like The Goonies. The alpha demo thrusts a brother-sister duo out into the world to talk to dastardly raccoons, fight mutated rats, and explore the siblings' small Candian settlement.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

The developers of the long-running Lord of the Rings MMO, The Lord of the Rings Online, are planning what sounds like extensive updates for the future that could include a console edition for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S.Publisher Daybreak Game Company was recently acquired by Enad Global 7, and in an investor briefing (via PCGamesN), the company said it has a number of updates for the MMO in the works. The company is investing so heavily into the game in an attempt to piggyback on Amazon's upcoming Lord of the Rings TV show, Enad Global 7 said."Planning visual and technical updates for LOTRO for PC and next-gen consoles to capitalize on Amazon's highly publicized large investment (~$500mm) in LOTR TV series," reads a line from the presentation.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Graphics in games are already impressive, and Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick believes it's only going to get even better. During the UBS Global TMT Virtual Conference (via Gamesindustry.biz), Zelnick said he expects photorealism to be possible within the next decade."And I can't quite say what that will involve, but I think what you're going to see is technology will allow our creative folks to do things they've never been able to do before, including make games that look exactly like live-action," he stated. "Some of what we do now looks a lot like live-action, but it's still animation. In 10 years, you'll have the option if you want to make things that look completely realistic, all done inside a computer, never mind all the other advances technology will enable."He also spoke with general optimism about the business side of games too, nodding to the widespread possession of smartphones as a factor that will affect future business developments. "I'm guessing [Take-Two's] business in ten years looks very different than it does today in the same way that it looks very different today than it did ten years ago when there was no mobile business and no recurrent consumer spending," Zelnick commented.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Just ahead of the launch of Black Ops Cold War and Warzone's Season 1 expansion, Call of Duty developer Treyarch has announced a new patch is coming to Black Ops Cold War very soon.This newest game update will go live around 11 PM PT on December 7, and it includes a series of quality-of-life improvements, bug fixes, stability updates, and adjustments to weapons and Scorestreaks. The patch doesn't contain any weapon buffs or nerfs, however.The big change for weapons is that there is now more polish to the "visual kickback" when firing from the hip. Additionally, the updates fixes an animation issue with the Hauer 77 and it clears out a bug that could cause thermal scopes to not work properly when riding in a vehicle.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com

Kate Bishop, Hawkeye's mentee, is coming to Marvel's Avengers tomorrow. She brings new combat abilities and a special mission to the cooperative superhero adventure."Missing since A-Day, she resurfaces after her investigation into Nick Fury’s disappearance results in her mentor Clint Barton (aka Hawkeye) going missing as well," reads a post on the official Marvel's Avengers site. "As she unravels the mystery behind the sudden appearance of time-warping Tachyon Rifts, she uncovers a twisted new plan from AIM, which pushes her to work with the Avengers once again."Bishop's character is equipped with a special arsenal of arrows that can teleport, tranquilize, and explode a target on impact. She can also teleport to different locations on the map, throw a smoke screen, and use special melee abilities.Continue Reading at GameSpotInfo from Gamespot.com