Hannelore Thayer

Now, CD Projekt Red has to deal with the repercussions of its morbid marketing campaign. Besides a landslide of refunds of the game being doled out by Sony, Microsoft , and GameStop , CD Projekt Red may have some legal trouble on its hands as well. A Manhattan-based law firm filed a suit last week against CD Projekt Red on behalf of anyone that bought stock in the company. Part of the press release regarding the lawsuit explicitly cites the "defendants' (CD Projekt Red) statements about its business, operations, and prospects," calling them "materially fal The archetypical solarpunk city seen in paintings and speculative books mixes advanced technology and sustainable urban ecologies with design motifs from centuries past: Art Nouveau buildings with stained-glass windows and rooftop gardens, bio-engineered tree-buildings, old-fashioned electric trolley cars and blimps, a revival of hand-crafted goods, augmented reality networks, and, of course, solar panels everywhere. Nearly all of these snapshots of solarpunk scenery take place on sunny days, also featuring solar symbolism and bright primary col This ending is somewhat bittersweet, as if players have been paying attention to Johnny Silverhand throughout Cyberpunk 2077, they will learn of his character's hopes fears, and regrets. His time in the grave and in the backseat of V's mind show how flawed he is, but how he's trying to do better. By giving him V's body, he's allowed that second chance, and with V being his most trusted friend, they live on in his memory every time Johnny looks in the mir Ever since the 1960s, science fiction authors like Ursula K. LeGuin and Norman Spinrad have been writing books set in proto-solarpunk societies, where technological progress is balanced with renewable energy and communal living. Writer Jay Springett traced solarpunk's origins, as a term, to an obscure 2008 blog post, but he attributes the movement's true beginnings to a 2012 Brazilian short story anthology titled S olarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World . Solarpunk stories consciously reject the neon grime of classic Cyberpunk 2077 News and the white sterile corridors of classic sci-fi settings in favor of futures that are vibrant and hopeful, while still feeling tantalizingly plausi The pranked sister was supposed to show up at the wedding and get upset, leading to juicy on-screen drama. However, the military cyberware implants turned her into a cyberpsycho, so when she walked into the café and sees her fiancé marrying her sister, she goes insane and brutally murders every One other contingency factor that Cyberpunk 2077 throws out of the left field is V or Johnny Silverhand's decision to return to V's body. What the community believes to be the good and best endings can only surface if V returns to their own body rather than Johnny when Alt Cunningham tells the pair to make a decision. If the player chooses to let Johnny live in V's body no matter which mission route was chosen, they'll be given a somber scene where the Samurai guitarist leaves Night City behind . It's bittersweet, depending on how the player looks at it, so it's more middle of the road rather than fully "bad" or "go In short, solarpunk worlds are both colorful and alive - more down to earth than the sleek futures seen in Star Trek , but less grimy and commercialism-saturated than games like Cyberpunk 2077 . In an industry where eye-catching graphics are vital to marketing, the visuals of a solarpunk video game would stand out among its less colorful and gloomier competitors. Hints of what a solarpunk game could look like can be seen in Pokémon games like Pokémon Sun and Moon , where urban communities fueled by renewable energy (and Pokémon ) are surrounded by shires, parks, and wild places (and wild Pokémon ). A few gritty dieselpunk games, like Final Fantasy 7 or The Outer Worlds , also betray elements of solarpunk when examined more closely. In the lawless places outside the control of corporations like Shinra or Spacer's Choice, ecological-minded visionaries are building new societies in places like Cosmo Canyon or the Botanical Labs that are based not just around sustainable technology but sustainable ways of l Cyberpunk 2077 _ 's release and current plans have become akin to those of a pre-release version of a title. CD Projekt Red's ambitious follow-up from _The Witcher 3 has seen scrutiny for numerous aspects of its development, but the criticism has reached a fever pitch as it relates to the state of the game's launch. Numerous bugs, glitches, and problems with the game's programming have led to CD Projekt Red reevaluating its release schedules, delaying DLC and multiplayer content drops while promising fixes for these critical iss Video game marketing is already tricky for consumers to navigate. They, and even I, sometimes have to parse out what is true and what is too good to be true. There are very few AAA games that keep all their promises and live up to their marketing materials. Figuring out where the scripted trailer ends and the real gameplay begins is key to being an informed consumer in the gaming indus