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We recently had a chance to chat with Carla Tassara to talk about her role as Judy Alvarez in CD Projekt Red’s Cyberpunk 2077. The full interview delves into the character’s history alongside how games can tackle representation and trauma in the years to come. Aside from this, Tassara also told us a few fascinating anecdotes regarding the audition process for Judy Alvarez. In the beginning, it turns out she also auditioned for the role of Sasquatch, a deadly enemy players might remember from the Pacifica Shopping Mall....

Console fans running out of hard drive space can breathe a sigh of relief when finally installing Cyberpunk 2077. Though the game will be massive in scale, Global Community Lead Marcin Momot promises the game’s installation wont take up an absurd 200 GB of space. Momot, who was teasing on Twitter that more info on Cyberpunk 2077 was coming soon, also indicated that the PC system requirements would also be released in the near future, giving fans enough time to prep as the game’s release draws near this fall....

In a particularly topical panel discussion regarding the canceled Netflix show Daredevil, actor Peter Shinkoda revealed a rather shocking bit of info given to him by former head of Marvel’s TV efforts, Jeph Loeb. According to Shinkoda, whose character Nobu Yoshioka served as one of the show’s antagonists and head of the sinister “Hand” organization, Loeb asserted candidly that the character wasn’t as developed on-screen as originally planned because “nobody cares about Chinese people and Asian people....

The next game in the Darksiders franchise has been announced, though it’s unlike any previous Darksiders game. Introducing Darksiders Genesis, a spin-off prequel to the three main-series Darksiders games that moves away from its usual play-style in favor of Diablo-like dungeon crawling and looting. Players take on the role of Strife, the fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse and the last to be a Darksiders protagonist. Darksiders Genesis will launch in 2019....

PlayStation exclusives are often well-developed and highly-praised games, but the general consensus around Days Gone is that it is the low hanging fruit. Generally speaking, it doesn’t live up to other PlayStation exclusives like God of War, but that hasn’t prevented the open world action-adventure survival-horror title from surpassing the lifetime sales of several exclusives in just a few weeks in Japan, at least. At the time of this writing, Days Gone has outsold the lifetime sales of God of War, The Last Guardian, and Detroit: Become Human in the Japanese market....

Since releasing in June 2016, Dead by Daylight has been a staple alongside games like Friday the 13th as one of the best multiplayer survival horror games currently available. While Behavior Interactive has provided players with a satisfying share of content since launch, it’s done even more by bringing the game to consoles Now, it appears there’s even more coming to the game just in time for the holidays. Teasing from the Dead by Daylight official Twitter page, it looks as though there will be a new content package coming sometime in the near future....

Find out more about the meaning of Death Stranding, the title of the new Hideo Kojima game that was officially unveiled at Sony’s E3 conference yesterday. Hideo Kojima is the rare kind of video game developer that truly does things his own way. Whether it’s the content of the games themselves or the bizarre ways he’s chosen to promote them, there’s always at least a trace of his eccentric style — and that looks set to continue with his new game, Death Stranding....

Sony is flaunting its elaborate user interface which will debut with the PS5 next week, which harbors a multitude of functions to aid player’s experience. One innovative mechanic - the system’s official Game Help - is an aid for tricky levels, and it’s been reported that the Demon’s Souls remake will have over 180 of these helpful in-game tips. In an extensive PS5 feature, the Washington Post interviewed Demon’s Souls creative director Gavin Moore, who revealed the game’s added bonuses within the next-gen system....

Destiny: The Taken King’s Creative Director, Luke Smith, discusses Bungie’s decision to nix a few of the action-RPG’s more useful items before the expansion released. Without a doubt, the sheer amount of content offered up by Destiny: The Taken King has kept plenty of Guardians busy since its release, especially now that developers have fixed Nightfall reward drops as promised. However, while the the action-RPG’s add-on has got plenty of solid loot and adventures, Bungie’s Creative Director Luke Smith recently explained that Destiny’s expansion could have contained a lot more, by revealing what happened to the Cryptarch’s corrupted engram missions....

When the Leviathan raid was first conquered, many players said there would be no way to defeat the final boss without a full fireteam. But leave it to some talented players within the Destiny 2 community to take on the challenge, with the latest feat being a successful 2-man run of Calus, the final boss, on the raid’s harder Prestige Mode. It’s another notch in the belts of prestigious raiders and Destiny challenge runners Slayerage and Epicookiez, who have previously beaten Calus and the Pleasure Gardens encounter by themselves as well....

Destiny 2’s Season of the Chosen is in full swing and players are confronting the Cabal across the system to take down Caiatl’s prospective war council members. The community response to this season so far has been predominantly positive, especially when compared to last season: Season of the Hunt. But what makes Season of the Chosen so different from Season of the Hunt? There are actually several things that Bungie is doing differently this season that many players view as a big step in the right direction for Destiny 2’s seasonal content....

For those Destiny 2 players whose clans have reached rank 4 there is another challenge available to complete in the Crown of Sorrow raid. Dubbed the ‘With Both Hands’ challenge, this latest raid objective is to be completed during the final boss fight with Gahlran. As the name implies, the With Both Hands challenge will have Destiny 2 raiders changing up their strategy when it comes to shooting Gahlran’s hands during the boss fight, specifically the damage phase....

[The following post contains SPOILERS. For those who want to go in completely fresh, we highly recommend completing the Offering to the Oracle quest for the week] A few weeks ago, a new cutscene from Destiny 2 hit the Internet, leaked by dataminers who were able to access the cutscene in the game’s files. When the cutscene was found, it was almost certain to fit in somehow to the Black Armory DLC, but fans weren’t sure exactly how....

The big day that many Destiny 2 fans have been waiting for is finally here. Today marks not only the beginning of Season 3, but the launch of Warmind, the second downloadable content expansion that adds all sorts of new content including a new campaign, a new location on Mars known as Helles Basin, the Escalation Protocol event, and a new raid as well. Warmind introduces players to Ana Bray, a legendary hunter investigating the recent activity on Mars stemming from the warmind Rasputin....

Capcom unveils a huge sale on Resident Evil games from throughout the horror franchise’s history, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the original Resident Evil’s release. Given the number of games that have fallen under the umbrella of the Resident Evil franchise, even the most determined fan of the horror series may have struggled to play them all. Now, there may be a way for those gamers to pick up a few of those missing titles on the cheap....

CD Projekt Red boss Adam Badowski recently addressed concerns of mandatory crunch on Cyberpunk 2077 by announcing that 10% of the company’s annual profit for 2020 will be split directly among the team. It was recently revealed that CD Projekt Red has ordered mandatory six-day weeks for all of its staff in the run-up to Cyberpunk 2077, which is scheduled to launch on November 19, 2020. For those who haven’t been following Cyberpunk 2077’s pre-launch trajectory, this stands in direct contrast to previous promises that mandatory crunch would not factor into development....

Cheating is a big problem in today’s gaming, and it’s one that developers are finally taking action against. Take-Two recently got a GTA Online cheat maker to shut down, while both Bungie and Riot Games are teaming up to take on Destiny 2 and League of Legends cheat providers in a joint lawsuit. But one ethical cheat maker is actually doing quite well for itself. MegaDev is a German developer that focuses on making cheats and trainers for single-player games only, and because they only let players cheat themselves, they’re actually getting big business on board....

Codemasters issued a statement yesterday, confirming that it is set to close its Guildford Studio. The Guildford Studio is known for last month’s lackluster first-person shooter, Bodycount, a game that debuted to poor reviews from critics, including a less than stellar review from our very own Rob Keyes, and peaked at number 36 on the new release chart. Codemasters explained that the closure is due to a refocusing of efforts on existing franchises such as DiRT and GRID, and a consolidation of operations within the UK to their studios in Birmingham and Warwickshire....

After 10 years hosting his late-night talk show Conan on TBS (and an additional 18 years on NBC before that), Conan O’Brien is finally emerging from the twilight and taking his talents to the streaming world. The talk show veteran has just announced that he will be ending his current show next year and moving to HBO Max to host a weekly variety show. Conan will continue running on TBS until June 2021, when its 10th season concludes....

Our quick take Corsair K70 Pro Mini Wireless - 4.0 / 5 Serious specs 8,000Hz hyper polling; 4,000Hz key scanning 2.4GHz Slipstream wireless or Bluetooth 4.2 low latency 8MB onboard memory for 50 profiles and 20 layered lighting effects Hot-swappable to a point Standard switches are Cherry MX RGB Red or Speed Silver Swappable three-pin Cherry MX switches Standard bottom row layout Include keycap and key switch puller Cherry MX RGB Red - 45g actuation force, 2mm actuation, 4mm travel Cherry MX Speed Silver - 45g actuation force, 1....