Back in January I got an email from one of the PR reps at CD Projekt RED about a potential replica to showcase a new game from a familiar franchise. For those more into the tabletop RPG scene, the name Cyberpunk is probably an old favorite, and the guys at CD Projekt RED will be ...
so you may have heard thatCyberpunk 2077is a first-person, role-playing, cover-based shooter and not a third-person brawler. But what many writers have overlooked is how much respect CD Projekt is giving to the game’s original lore, a tabletop RPG first published in 1988. ...
Cyberpunk 2077, which was developed with the tabletop game creator Pondsmith as a story/world-building consultant, puts itself 57 years past the setting of the original, boxed pen-and-paper game, and is released in the actual year imagined as “far off and futuristic” when that game was c...
She’s a leader within the Voodoo Boys, a canonical faction from Mike Pondsmith’s original tabletop RPG, Cyberpunk 2020. Standing in the way are the Animals, a faction of muscular bodybuilders who modify their bodies with illegal drugs rather than physical augmentations. It’s interesting how...
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners doesn’t overtake Cyberpunk 2077 so much as it expands upon it. But for the best version of Night City this side of the 21st century, consider diving into Studio Trigger’s madcap vision of the famous tabletop RPG. It’s a wild ride, but worth every blistering seco...
It was only a matter of time before a new tabletop RPG would be released. Thus, Cyberpunk Red was born. Set in the year 2045, it serves both as the extension of the Cyberpunk 2020 tabletop game, and as a prequel to theCyberpunk 2077storyline. Here, after a string of disasters – ...
But considering how CD Projekt's financials have been boosted by sales of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt years after that game's initial release, it's in their best interests to position Cyberpunk 2077 as a similar product. Who knows, maybe a TV adaptation of Mike Pondsmith's tabletop RPG ...
Cyberpunk 2077 is about hedonistic excess. Much like the tabletop game that inspired the open-world RPG, everything is brighter, louder, and more in your face. Pair that with the reliance on technological interfacing, and some triggers were expected. With Cyberpunk 2077, however, there are ...
More than six years after the original announcement, CD Projekt RED finally provided us with the first look at Cyberpunk 2077, their next RPG
We recently saw the upcoming Cyberpunk RPG game:Cyberpunk Red. Now,Cyberpunk 2077has been delayed untilDecember 10thwho knows when, but the premise of the new RPG is clear: the oldCyberpunk tabletop RPG. “So why does that matter? Why is Cyberpunk 2077 being mentioned a second time in ...