Cyberpunk 2077's Microsoft Store page now has an Xbox One performance issues warning.
"Users may experience performance issues when playing this game on Xbox One consoles until this game is updated," reads the warning.
The addition of the warning came hot on the heels of Microsoft's decision to expand its refund policy to include all who bought Cyberpunk 2077, which costs £49.99, on its digital store.
CD Projekt has issued a patch for Cyberpunk 2077 that addresses a raft of quest bugs as well as crashes.
Hotfix 1.05, which weighed in at 17.358GB for me playing on PlayStation 5 via backwards compatibility, is now live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles, with PC to follow soon.
There's a long list of quest fixes. On the gameplay side of things, NPCs taking cover have improved reaction time. There are some visual fixes, including this curious tweak: "V appears more modest in the inventory preview after the half year montage ;)"
Ah, what could be more festive than getting very drunk and starting a brawl?
Valhalla's Yule Festival is now live, and brings with it some festive changes to your Viking settlement from 17th December to 7th January. You can expect lots of snow in Ravensthorpe, along with revellers and a variety of Yuletide activities to keep you entertained, including drunken brawls, archery challenges "and more". Taking part in these activities earns you Yule Tokens which can be redeemed for a range of goodies in the Festival Shop. You can take a peek at the list here.
It's worth noting, however, that this event only unlocks once you've completed one of the story arcs (such as Grantebridgescire or Ledecestrescire), and the rewards can only be redeemed during up until 7th January. The items range from 15 to 150 tokens in price, with the sum total of all the items reaching 775. Players have found that the maximum you can earn in a challenge is 70 tokens by doing a full round of brawling, so if you want everything, you could be there a while.
The Epic Games Store has launched its Holiday Sale - and also brought back its limitless £10 coupon promotion that'll save you even more money on a whole host of digital PC games.
All you need to do is log in to the EGS and claim your voucher from the store page. From there, it'll be automatically applied on any purchase of £13.99 or over (except pre-orders). And then, best of all, you'll get another coupon added to your account to use on the next game you buy. And then the next one. And the next one. And then...you get the idea.
What that means is you can get some games for ridiculously cheap, including the likes of open-world adventure Immortals Fenyx Rising, eccentric detective RPG Disco Elysium and the delightfully weird Bugsnax.
Hot on the heels of the news that Among Us is now on Nintendo Switch, another console has joined the murder party, as the game has now been announced for Xbox - and will be available on Game Pass when it launches. Oh, and if you have Xbox Game Pass for PC, you can grab Among Us for free right about... now.
The social deduction game is due to arrive on Xbox consoles sometime in 2021, although an exact date for the launch has not yet been announced. As detailed in the Xbox announcement post, it's already available if you have Xbox Game Pass for PC, so you can jump in straight away.
Among Us launched two years ago on mobile devices and PC, but it was only this year that the game took off in a big way - assumedly because people were looking for something more interesting to do on all those lockdown Zoom calls. Other than asking what you'd been up to while stuck indoors for several months.
As we inch closer to booting 2020 out the door, next-gen video game news continues its never-ending outpour. This was a week dominated by Cyberpunk 2077 and what is sure to go down as one of the most disastrous triple-A launches ever.
Not long after it emerged the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of CD Projekt's sci-fi epic were in a terrible state did reports come in that some had found success nabbing a refund. CD Projekt was then forced to apologise for not showing Cyberpunk 2077 on PS4 and Xbox One before launch and, in the same breath, suggested anyone who wanted a refund would be able to get one without bother. It turns out Sony, Microsoft and the shops didn't get the memo.
Its reputation in tatters and its share price tanking, CD Projekt held an emergency investor relations call in which the bosses of the company vowed to "rebuild trust". Updates, patches and fixes are inbound, CD Projekt said. Just give the studio time to make things right.
There are few finer pleasures than getting to see someone who's really bloody good at something doing what they're really bloody good at, which probably explains the massive smile on my face after ploughing through the first act of Turtle Rock's co-op shooter Back 4 Blood. This, quite simply, is the team behind Left 4 Dead back doing what it does best, and doing it that little bit better too. It's a return to the same concept - you and three friends against seemingly endless hordes of undead - with that same exquisite balance, and that same chunky gunplay. From the blunt borrowings of the title and beyond, it's clear that Back 4 Blood isn't shy of inviting comparisons.
"Yeah, well, I think it's fair to say for sure," says Back 4 Blood's creative director and Turtle Rock co-founder Phil Robb. "I mean, anyone who is a fan of the Left 4 Dead series will feel comfortable playing this game - but we've got a lot more stuff we've packed into it as well. There are similarities, but it's its own thing."
That's the thing that's most striking about Back 4 Blood - at first, at least, before you begin to grasp some of its own quirks and twists. There's the familiarity of it all, the heft of its assault rifle in the hands as it chugs through swarms of undead as reassuring in its own way as putting on a pair of favourite slippers, but in Back 4 Blood everything's been dialled up a notch or two.
Assassin's Creed Valhalla launched in November with a shop selling cosmetic extras for real money, but to the surprise of many, the XP boost packs sold in Assassin's Creed Odyssey were conspicuously absent. Not to worry, everyone: the controversial microtransactions have now arrived.
A recent update from Ubisoft has introduced the XP boosts to Valhalla's Helix store. The boost grants a 50 per cent increase to XP progression and can be used across all save files. It'll cost you, though: the boost can be bought for 1000 Helix credits, equivalent to £8.58. A similar pack can be bought to earn 50 per cent more silver, while a pack combining both the silver and XP boosts will cost you 1500 Helix credits (or £12.88 if you buy the 500 and 1050 packs).
The XP boost was controversial in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, not only because players felt microtransactions didn't belong in a full-price single-player title, but due to Odyssey's slow levelling process and level gates. This led some fans to claim the grind was there to deliberately encourage players to buy boost packs.
Elite Dangerous' highly anticipated Odyssey expansion isn't too far away now, and developer Frontier is continuing its pre-launch promotional blitz with a new developer video, this time showcasing the kind of combat Commanders will be able to experience when they finally receive their space-legs early next year.
Come the arrival of Odyssey, players will, for the first time, be able to leave the confines of their space vessels and stroll about Elite Dangerous' vast galaxy on-foot, exploring everything from shiny space stations to dusty desert outposts in first-person.
This, as Frontier explains in its latest video, necessitates a bit of a mentality shift when it comes to combat, with players needing to develop a whole new set of skills as they make the jump from "bold, daring star pilot to vulnerable on-foot troop".
Death Stranding now has a Cyberpunk 2077 update on PC.
The update adds six new missions featuring characters and lore from CD Projekt's game. There are new items and a new hacking function, too.
Currently, the collaboration is exclusive to the PC version, Kojima Productions said. "We'll have more announcements coming in the near future, stay tuned!"