These include ray tracing support, faster loading times on consoles, as well as a variety of mods integrated into the experience, among many others. Along with new additional content inspired by The Witcher series from Netflix, these will be covered next week in a dedicated REDstreams event on Twitch, where the studio will present gameplay from the next-gen version of the game.

The next-gen version of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition will be available for purchase digitally on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, featuring all free DLCs released to date, and both major expansions: Hearts of Stone & Blood and Wine. Moreover, a free next-gen update will be available for everyone who owns any release of the game for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. A physical edition will be released following the initial digital rollout, with a specific date to be announced at a later time.

In addition to the next-gen release, the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch versions of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will also receive an update featuring numerous additions and improvements, as well as the Netflix Witcher-themed additional content. Further details, including the release date, will be announced soon.

Fans now finally have the release date for The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt next-gen update. Let us know what you think and whether or not you are interested in checking it out.

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Previously referred to by the codename “Canis Majoris” during the studio’s Strategy Update earlier in October, the remake will be a modern reimagining of 2007’s The Witcher — the first game in CD PROJEKT RED’s acclaimed RPG trilogy. The title will be built from the ground up using Unreal Engine 5 technology and will use the toolset CDPR is creating for the new Witcher saga.

The project is currently in the early stages of development at Fool’s Theory — a game development studio specializing in role-playing games. The team employs numerous veteran developers who previously worked on The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, and CD PROJEKT RED is providing full creative supervision.

Adam Badowski, Head of Studio, CD PROJEKT RED mentioned the following regarding the matter:

The Witcher is where it all started for us, for CD PROJEKT RED. It was the first game we made, ever, and it was a big moment for us then. Going back to this place and remaking the game for the next generation of gamers to experience it feels just as big, if not bigger. Collaborating with Fool’s Theory on the project is just as exciting, as some of the people there have been previously involved in The Witcher games. They know the source material well, they know how much gamers have been looking forward to seeing the remake happen, and they know how to make incredible and ambitious games. And although it will take some time before we’re ready to share more about and from the game, I know it’ll be worth the wait.

Jakub Rokosz, CEO, Fool’s Theory commented as follows:

I am very happy that my professional paths have crossed again with fellow developers from the time of working together on The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3. Especially when it’s a remake of a project that is so close to our hearts. We are excited to join forces with CD PROJEKT RED, and our goal is to give players another great game from the iconic Witcher series.

Let us know what you think about the original Witcher game getting a remake and whether or not this is something that you might be interested in checking out.

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Model Builder brings the joy of scale model building to enthusiasts and novices alike with a rich and varied collection of content including vehicles, historical memorabilia, and pop culture icons. The new Model Builder: The Witcher & Cyberpunk 2077 DLC will further expand and enhance fans’ personal Model Builder portfolio with five exciting pre-built virtual models for them to paint and decorate in their own style.

There are five new virtual models released in the DLC, four from The Witcher featuring Geralt, Ciri, and Yennefer and one from Cyberpunk 2077 featuring Johnny and Alt Cunningham, all painstakingly recreated from real-life collectible statues to work on in players’ in-game model building workshops.

The models included in the Model Builder: The Witcher & Cyberpunk 2077 DLC are:

• Johnny & Alt – Cyberpunk 2077 
• Geralt Ronin Figure – The Witcher 
• Ciri and the Kitsune Figure – The Witcher 
• Ciri Character Bust – The Witcher 
• Yennefer the Kunoichi Figure – The Witcher

About Model Builder 

It’s time to get building and get creative! Join the latest trend in simulation games with Model Builder and unleash your creativity by cutting out, assembling, and painting your models including planes, tanks, figures, mechs, and more. Sell your creations for profit to expand your toolkit, or display them to create stunning and epic scenes for the whole world to see. 

• Choose your models – Choose to build vehicles, historical memorabilia, figures, and pop culture and earn experience to unlock more models, or paint your favorite models again in a different or unique style.
• Become a master builder – Choose the model you want to create, feel the satisfaction of snipping out the model parts and build your model step by step. Finally, apply the finishing touches so it’s ready for painting.
• The right tools for the job – You have a wide variety of tools available in your toolkit – everything you need to assemble your impressive models and make them shine. You will be able to unlock new tools to help with precision work and finishes, and you will feel like a pro in no time.
• Customize – Now it’s time to get creative! Do you stick to the brief, or make the model your own and pimp it up? With plenty of paint to choose from, a choice of airbrush tools as well as fine detail brushes, and impressive decals at your disposal, the sky’s the limit! 
• Showcase your masterpieces – Once your model is complete, it’s not the end! You can create stunning and exciting scenes by arranging your model (or models) or showcase them in the photo booth and share them for the world to see.
• Exciting story mode – Go on a fascinating journey in the footsteps of your grandfather Stan and his achievements by unlocking secrets of the past. Take on model-building commissions and enter competitions on your journey to become a world-class model builder. 

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Taking place from October 28th until November 1st, the Comics & Games 2022 festival will once again see the city of Lucca turned into a capital of gaming and comic book pop culture. This year, CD PROJEKT RED will be joining the event as part of the studio’s 20th Anniversary Celebration.

Activities organized by the Polish video game development company will be held at Villa Bottini. The garden will serve as a teleport to Toussaint, which players had the chance to explore in Blood & Wine, the second of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt’s expansions.

Visitors will be able to participate in an immersive Witcher-themed treasure hunt, take part in various crafting activities, as well as join in on other attractions, all brought to life with the help of experienced live-action role-playing professionals and cosplayers. Moving inside the villa, CD PROJEKT RED will be hosting a special exhibition showcasing many rare and never-before-seen artifacts spanning 20 years of the studio’s game-making history, as well as a Cyberpunk 2077 & The Witcher art gallery displaying historically inspired works from across both franchises. A variety of panels with invited guests from CD PROJEKT RED will also be taking place throughout the event. You can buy tickets for the event from the official website.

Lucca Comics & Games 2022 will also be hosting an evening filled with music from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its expansions. The concert will take place at Palazzetto Dello Sport on a technologically advanced stage, and will be conducted by Eimear Noone — the first woman ever to conduct at the Academy Awards. Tracks will be performed by musicians from the Fiesole’s Orchestra Giovanile Italiana (the Italian Youth Orchestra), accompanied by the Polish folk metal band Percival Schuttenbach.

On October 29th, CD PROJEKT RED will host an official Community Party for invited members of the studio’s community to talk, meet with REDs, and find a relaxing ending to an otherwise excitingly busy event day.

Lucca Comics & Games 2022 visitor tickets and means of acquiring media accreditation are both available via the festival’s official website. Each ticket grants access to all of the attractions hosted by CD PROJEKT RED at Villa Bottini and its grounds.

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Promised Land Open Day is an accompanying event to the creative-industry-professionals-oriented Promised Land Art Festival, which also returns this year to Łódź, Poland. The event will be fully offline and will take place in the EC1 building complex — a former power station, modernized and now serving as a center for culture and science.

A host of attractions awaits Open Day participants, including panels and lectures from industry professionals and invited guests as they share their experiences of having worked on some of the biggest video games, films, animations, and other pieces of popular culture — as well as a discussion panel from mentees who took part in CD PROJEKT RED and Perspektywy Education Foundation’s Girls in the Game! initiative. Renowned comic book artist Grzegorz Rosiński has also confirmed his presence. Participants will have the chance to meet the artist and watch his process during live illustration sessions.

Other attractions include portfolio reviews hosted by veteran artists, an excellent opportunity to glean ideas about further artistic development within the industry. Recruiters from the game development sector will also be available to discuss beginning a career in the industry, while Promised Land’s technological partners will host presentations of the latest technology powering the creative industry. Discover the full Open Day Promised Land programme here.

Open Day tickets are available at the price of 30 PLN. Anyone wishing to participate in the event can buy them through the dedicated page. Promised Land Art Festival ticket owners will be able to visit Open Day at no extra charge. While some content may be available in English, Open Day and its attractions will mostly be presented in Polish.

Promised Land Open Day and Promised Land Art Festival are organized by CD PROJEKT RED in collaboration with the city of Łódź, Poland, and EC1 Łódź — City of Culture. This year’s media partner is Polsat Games. 

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Revealed during Netflix’s Geeked Week, an event dedicated to geek culture shows, movies, and games available and set to arrive on the streaming platform, the new assets mark the first time Cyberpunk: Edgerunners has been shown off in motion — in the form of a teaser trailer as well as the first part of a series of behind the scenes videos.

n addition to commentary about the show’s development from key CD PROJEKT RED staff involved in the project, the documentary also features first-look stills and concept art as well as an exclusive clip and scene breakdown from the anime. Future behind-the-scenes videos will cover other aspects of the show, with extra insight from members of Studio Trigger.

The new key visual for Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, drawn by chief character designer of the show Yoh Yoshinari and released as part of Geeked Week, presents the show’s protagonists, David and Lucy. The pair is also shown throughout the teaser trailer and behind-the-scenes video, along with other major and minor characters of the show.

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners tells a standalone, 10-episode story about a street kid trying to survive in a technology- and body-modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an edgerunner — a mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.

The show is created by renowned game development studio CD PROJEKT RED, with Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt creative talent involved in the project. Bringing the world to life in Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is acclaimed Japanese-based animation company Studio Trigger, with Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) directing the show. Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) is assigned as chief character designer as well as executive animation director. Masahiko Otsuka (Star Wars: Visions ‘The Elder’) and Yoshiki Usa (GRIDMAN UNIVERSE series) are in charge of writing the screenplay based on the story provided by CD PROJEKT RED. The original score is composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners premieres on Netflix in September 2022.

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Aimed at professionals working in film, gaming, and other creative industries, Promised Land Art Festival is a place for the exchange of knowledge and experience, for networking, and crossing the divide between digital and traditional arts — areas of the creative process that lie at the core of CD PROJEKT RED as a game development studio.

Throughout four days of the festival, participants will have the opportunity to take part in more than 100 hours of activities, including talks, discussion panels, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, demos, as well as Q&A and networking sessions. The event will once again take place in EC1 Łódź — a former power station, modernized and now serving as a center for culture and science.

Last time around, Promised Land saw more than 600 attendees of various experience levels and from all walks of creative industry life. Speakers at the event represented some of the most recognizable names in games, films, and lifestyle such as Capcom, Disney, Pixar Animation Studios, Paramount Pictures, BioWare, MachineGames, Framestore, Digic Pictures, MPC London, Double Negative, and CD PROJEKT RED.

Harvey Newman is an Animation Director with nearly two decades of experience working in the game industry in studios such as Crytek, Lionhead, Creative Assembly, Axis, DICE, and Build a Rocket Boy. He’s helped to ship many award-winning titles from different leadership positions, including Battlefield V, Horizon Zero Dawn, Star Wars Battlefront, and Crysis 3.

Daniel Lupien has been working in both the video game and VFX industries for the past 21 years, focusing mostly on assets. He is also a practical prop maker. He specializes in texturing and for the past eight years has been working as an Asset Supervisor at Rodeo FX — where he has worked on many franchises such as Game of Thrones, Fantastic Beasts, Aquaman, WandaVision, and Jumanji.

Jordu Schell has been in the film & television industry since 1987. His talent as a designer and sculptor is world-renowned, and his credits include Avatar, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, 300, Hellboy, Men in Black, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Babylon 5, and many more.

Tickets for Promised Land are available starting today, with a special Early Bird discount available for all until June 30th while supplies last. Each ticket grants full access to the entire roster of Promised Land activities, as well as Open Day — a one-day-only, creative industry enthusiast event with its own, separate programme. Included with each main event ticket are food & drink vouchers, as well as a welcome pack of physical Promised Land goodies.

Promised Land Art Festival is organized by CD PROJEKT RED in cooperation with “EC1 Łódź – City of culture” and the City of Łódź, Poland. More details about Promised Land are available via the official website.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Braindance Sex

It was confirmed during the Night City Wire presentation that braindance is used for adult content but The World Of Cyberpunk 2077 takes things to another level by defining the different kinds of BD in the lore. Braindance sex in Cyberpunk 2077 is described as follows:

Sex braindance is a broad category that ranges from “marital aids” for traditional couples to kinky sex BD offered in cathouses and massage parlors. These productions allow for sexual partners to experience each other’s sensations in real-time. Specialized software is often used to prevent the transmission of unwanted thoughts, but some users insist on “unprotected” braindance intercourse.

All Other Kinds Of Braindance

Other kinds of braindance in Cyberpunk 2077 are Therapeutic, Religious, Club, Penitentiary and Black. Therapeutic BD is offered by clinics along with other treatments in order to treat mental illnesses. These can allow patients to face their fears and overcome them in a safe environment. Therapeutic braindance sessions are very effective but are also expensive.

Religious braindance is described as follows in The World Of Cyberpunk 2077:

Religious braindance is the perfect way to experience religious ecstasy, regardless of the dogma of your specific faith. Using braindance in association with religious worship is becoming an increasingly popular practice. Christian sects have re-created the torture and crucifixion of Christ so that their members can experience Jesus’ suffering firsthand. Conversely, Buddhists are hard at work attempting to recreate the state of nirvana. Braindancevangelists have been known to exploit religious BD to put the naive faithful in direct contact with the “Lord” (and their church’s bank account). These types of confidence tricks are illegal almost everywhere, but they’re unfortunately not uncommon.

Club braindance can be used to change the mood of a person to match the tunes and the tempo of the music in clubs. These are often used during concerts and DJ shows. Penitentiary braindance is described as follows:

Convicts who qualify for rehabilitation are often sentenced to penitentiary braindance: psychological conditioning that breaks down their will and instills a sense of cooperation and compliance. The next step is to create a nightmare-like representation of the crime for which they were found guilty, then repeatedly place the convict in the role of the victim during back-to-back braindance sessions. Given some time and additional therapy, the prisoner eventually develops a strong aversion to violence and antisocial behavior, but in most cases, this conditioning also results in the manifestation of anxiety disorders.

Black braindance referees to criminal recordings that are often full of violence and psychologically logically sexual material. Black braindance can include both these things as well. Consuming content of this variety can be very dangerous. These braindance productions have minimal editing and are raw. So the user can have psychological impacts. These are still very popular and criminal organizations use these to make money.

We recently learned about the side effects of braindance in Cyberpunk 2077 as well. All of which are pretty interesting. It will be interesting to see how all this is incorporated into the game and whether or not we will see all this in action.

If you are interested in braindance sex then you might be interested in picking up some prostitutes in Cyberpunk 2077. Check out our guide on how you can pick up prostitutes in Cyberpunk 2077 for more information regarding the matter.

Let us know what you think about braindance sex in Cyberpunk 2077 and whether or not this is something that you are interested in exploring when the game comes out in November.

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Cyberpunk 2077 Braindance Side Effects

While the braindance feature looks really cool and can be a major gamechanger it has some serious side effects according to the lore of the game. The most notable side effect is addiction. This can lead to health problems because of inactivity, bad nutrition and mental isolation.

Less dangerous side effects include emotional dependency. Braindance can make you experience other people’s emotions and which can be deliberate and powerful. Studios are racing against each other to create the best emotion packs.

People that overuse braindance can become numb and emotionless. At a point, real-life will seem dull to them and they will have the urge to use braindance over and over again as they easily get bored of the real world around them. Eventually, this becomes the only source of emotional stimulation for some people.

This is some of the lore of braindance in Cyberpunk 2077 according to the World of Cyberpunk 2077 book. We do not know how much of this is going to translate into the actual gameplay of Cyberpunk 2077 and what the player is going to experience. There could be some interesting impacts. Like in Fallout, you can become addicted and you can also be affected by radiation. Cyberpunk 2077 could have similar elements. Braindance sex and porn has also been officially confirmed.

Let us know what you think about the side effects of braindance in Cyberpunk 2077 lore and what you think the actual gameplay application is going to be like when the game comes out in November.

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The Cyberpunk 2077 game informer code has the following binary code:

01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 00100000 01100110 01110010 01101111 01101101 00100000 01000011 01000100 00100000 01010000 01010010 01001111 01001010 01000101 01001011 01010100 00100000 01010010 01000101 01000100 00100001

Every set of numbers represent an alphabet in the English language and are easy to translate. If you translate the binary code then it translates to the following:

Love from CD PROJEKT RED!

While this does not tell us anything about Cyberpunk 2077, it is still a very impressive detail hidden right into the cover of one of the most popular gaming magazines in the world.

These hidden bits and pieces are very cool when found. A fan of Assassin’s Creed Valhalla was able to decipher a secret message for that game which was very interesting as well.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed to November 19th, so there is a while before we will be able to play the game but some people were able to play the game beforehand and they seem to be very impressed with what they witnessed.

We got to see some new footage of the game including a new feature called Brain Dance. We also got to see new katana gameplay and a few encounters with enemies as part of the new footage. From what we have seen so far, the game does live up to its hype and should be a lot of fun once it comes out in November.

The game will get a free upgrade for PS5 and Xbox Series X. So you can play the game with enhanced graphics if you are interested in picking up the next-generation consoles.

Let us know what you think about this secret message found in the Cyberpunk 2077 Game Informer magazine cover.

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