Cyberpunk 2077

has finally arrived, but as several members of the RPS Treehouse have been finding out today, some of our creaking PCs just aren’t up to playing CD Projekt Red’s latest particularly smoothly. It’s the kind of game that might make you consider playing it through the cloud instead (especially while we wait for new hardware prices to calm down a bit), so how about this for a silver lining? If you buy Cyberpunk 2077 on Google Stadia before December 18th, then Google will give you a Stadia Premiere Edition absolutely free.

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Fancy your RPGs a little slower, a little fiddlier, and a little more isometric than today’s big release? Two stellar Obsidian adventures, Pillars Of Eternity and Tyranny, are this week’s free giveaways on the Epic Games Store. So if you’re not feeling up to jacking into your cyberware just yet, there’s a good week of free high-fantasy plundering and moustache-twirling villainy ahead before the free games lineup rolls over once again next Thursday.

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This week sees the triumphant return of Nate – or should I say The Electricity Cop, as this episode of the Electronic Wireless Show podcast goes down to Cyberpunk 2077 town. Matthew has played 70 hours of that game that everyone is talking about, so we ask him 20 questions about it (or, well, like, ten-ish, probably). These range from “what games is it most comparable to?” to “what about the performance issues?” and also “have you been watching The Mandalorian?”

Plus, we get the thrilling conclusion to Matthew’s ConeGate aka Game Of Cones aka the Conetto Trilogy, and a Cavern Of Lies that has to be heard to be believed.

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Back when I was studying George Orwell’s Animal Farm in school, I would not have believed anyone who told me it would get a video game adaptation – and yet, one came out today. Orwell’s Animal Farm is a point and click game made by the creators of Reigns, along with Failbetter’s Emily Short. It’s based on the 1945 book, which tells a story about farm animals who revolt and overthrow their human farmers. So, uh, maybe not the cheeriest game for the holidays, but I’m pretty interested in seeing how well it works as a game.

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You can hear sinister whispering through this door of the calendar; skullduggery is afoot. Whoever is back there, you are fairly sure, is arranging for mortal harm to befall you. A believer in doing unto others before they can do unto you, you surge through the door with a dagger in hand, only to find yourself plunging into the breast of your uncle, the nine foot tall devil-worshipper who raised you. He had been praying to Satan, it seems, for your success in the upcoming war against Moravia.

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The Geocities-esque internet of Hypnospace Outlaw is silly fun until you see the tragedy beneath the surface, so it’s fitting that the game produced one of the all-time-great Christmas heartbreak songs. Last year its washed-up rocker, The Chowder Man, gave us the present of Christmas Pain In Christmas Town – a straight banger with a delightful music video. I wept, and vowed to listen every Christmastime. I guess I’m not asking you if it’s too early in the Christmas season to cry to this song as much as I’m telling you I already have.

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You won’t want to be walking around Night City with your weapon drawn all the time in Cyberpunk 2077. Problem is, the game doesn’t really explain how to holster your weapon. So we’ve decided to explain how to do so in this guide. We’ll take a look at holstering your gun on PC, so that you can be a little less threatening to those around you.

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In Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most annoying features many players have found is the mechanic of double-tapping a movement key in order to dodge in that direction. This leads to lots of accidental dodging while you’re shimmying in a direction.

By default, this option cannot be changed to a dedicated dodge key. Which is stupid. This quick guide looks to fix this issue by showing you how to disable double-tap to dodge in Cyberpunk 2077, and assign your own dedicated key for dodging.

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Cyberpunk 2077

is out. Cyberpunk 2077 is buggier than an ant farm. If you’ve played it yourself it’s entirely possible you’ve come across some sort of graphical glitch, crash, or strange wardrobe malfunction. Fortunately, new graphic cards drivers can help with some issues on PC, though players are still reporting a whole lot of glitchiness elsewhere – including crashes, broken level decorations, stuck missions, and even disappearing penises.

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As American Truck Simulator continues to expand the map eastward across the United States with new DLC, the next stop will be in Wyoming. Ah, the Cowboy State! The tenth-largest state in the contiguous US yet the least populous. Gonna be so long lonely days on the trail, partner. But they might be lovely days, seeing as Wyoming includes parts of the Rocky Mountains and Yellowstone national park. Not that I expect to be doing deliveries directly into hot springs. That would be an environmental disaster.

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