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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has seen its stock price fall in the days around the game’s launch, with a steep decline of 29%.

As reported by Gamesindustry.biz, shares are currently priced at PLN (Polish złoty) 313.9, down from PLN 443 on December 4. The decline is likely due to the release and press coverage revealing that Cyberpunk 2077 suffers from a plethora of bugs and glitches, and has notably poor performance on previous generation consoles. Such issues have spread widely via social media.

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Share prices appear to have dropped since the embargo on reviews was lifted. A few days later, the release of the game did little to counterbalance the fall, with shares on December 10 slipping from PLN 390.6 to PLN 362. That’s a 7.3% decrease.

CD Projekt Red experienced an all-time high in share price back in August, with a share price of PLN 460.8 and a total market cap of 42.5 billion złoty. Overtime that has declined around the announcement of major issues, such as the reports of the studio enforcing mandatory crunch and a delay for Cyberpunk 2077.

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While stock may have declined, CD Projekt Red has generated a huge amount of sales for Cyberpunk 2077; the game sold eight million copies before it even released. With over one million concurrent users on day one, it was Steam’s highest peak for a single player game.

If you’re starting out on your Cyberpunk 2077 journey, don’t forget that we’ve got all the help you could need; check out our Night City map to plan your missions and visit our Cyberpunk 2077 walkthrough if you need a guide for the quests.

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Matt Purslow is IGN’s UK News and Entertainment Writer. 

Cyberpunk 2077 has finally launched this week, but if you’re planning to play CD Projekt Red’s latest game on older consoles then you could be in for a shock. Digital Foundry has examined how Cyberpunk 2077’s first three hours perform on the base model PS4 and the PS4 Pro after patch 1.02 has been installed, and has detailed a compromised experience on those platforms.

On the base PS4, game performance “mostly” reaches a resolution of 720p, but the 30fps performance target is prone to dropping to 15fps during more intense sequences. “There’s just so much less detail,” Digital Foundry’s John Linneman noted of Night City’s car and NPC count. This results in Cyberpunk 2077 having frequent slowdowns, stuttering, and a messy visual presentation according to Digital Foundry’s analysis.

“It’s about 45 minutes into the game when you realize things have taken a very sour turn and this is just not playable anymore,” Linneman said. “It’s this set-piece moment where you’re driving down through the inner city and you’re in a shootout car chase and it just cannot run. It’s not just that it’s running at 20fps, under 20fps, but it stutters as well as it streams in the world.”

“For me, this is not acceptable. I would never want to play the game this way. It’s terrible,” Linneman concluded.

The PS4 Pro fares slightly better though, reaching a 1080p resolution most of the time, although it also dropped to 18fps during sequences such as an alleyway brawl. Cyberpunk 2077 is still far more playable on PS4 Pro when compared to the base PS4, and on PS5 the game is capable of reaching a 60fps presentation when run through that system via backwards compatibility. Digital Foundry also expects the Xbox One consoles to have similar results when it tests the game on those platforms.

“Cyberpunk 2077 is phenomenally buggy,” our Cyberpunk 2077 review reads. “I played a pre-release build that was updated during the review period, and there’s a day-one patch planned as well, but the scale of technical issues is too large to reasonably expect immediate fixes. I encountered some kind of bug on every mission I went on, from more common, funnier ones like characters randomly T-posing to several complete crashes. I didn’t notice much of an improvement after the update, either.”

Nintendo had a big surprise for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans during The Game Awards on December 10, announcing that Final Fantasy VII villain Sephiroth would be coming to the game. However, that wasn’t the only news the company had to share. It also announced that some of the most highly anticipated Amiibo figures will be released in a matter of months.

Starting on March 26, you’ll be able to buy Amiibo versions of Banjo & Kazooie, protagonist Byleth from Fire Emblem: Three Houses, and Terry Bogard from Fatal Fury. The Banjo & Kazooie figure includes both characters, as the name implies, and Byleth’s sword is lit aflame in his Amiibo.

Because Nintendo’s goal is to have an Amiibo released for all the game’s characters, we can expect a Sephiroth Amiibo eventually. Revealed during The Game Awards in a silly video that had us thinking Mario was no more-io, the legendary rival to Cloud Strife will make use of the superior range on his blade to keep foes at bay. Should everything be to scale, it would likely be a pretty big Amiibo, but it could help to make the wait for the next Final Fantasy VII Remake installment a little easier.

Other recent characters announced for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate include Minecraft’s Steve, along with various skins. We’re still holding out hope that Gex will slither onto the battlefield, but it’s not tail time just yet.

Award-winning comic book creator Brian K. Vaughan has been tapped to write the television adaptation of Buck Rogers for Legendary.

According to The Wrap, Vaughan, the writer behind Y: The Last Man, and more recently Saga, is developing Legendary’s new Buck Rogers TV series alongside producers Don Murphy and Susan Montford, whose credits include Transformers and Real Steel, via their Angry Films banner together with Flint Dille, the grandson of the original Buck Rogers creator, Philip Francis Nowlan.

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The project is based on Nowlan’s Armageddon 2419 A.D. novella, published in a 1928 issue of the Amazing Stories magazine. The story opens with Rogers trapped inside a coal mine, where he falls into a state of suspended animation and wakes up almost 500 years into the future. The character rose to further prominence when he appeared in a 1929 John F. Dille comic strip.

Now, Rogers is expected to make a comeback in a multi-platform sci-fi franchise at Legendary. This new deal will see the popular property branch out across various projects and platforms, starting with “a big-screen take,” which will pave the way for the “prestige television series as well as an anime series, giving audiences a 360-look at heroics sets in the 25th century.”

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The adventures of the spaceman protagonist have appeared in a variety of formats over the years, including comics, movies, radio, and television. The developing project at Legendary could lead to many more adventures with the Rogers, as Hollywood continues to revisit past properties. For more reboots and revivals, check out our rundown of the quickest movie franchise reboots.

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Adele Ankers is a Freelance Entertainment Journalist. You can reach her on Twitter.

Elden Ring, the ambitious project partnering Dark Souls director Hidetaka Miyazaki and A Song of Ice and Fire author George R.R. Martin, has been radio silent for well over a year, with that record looking set to continue into 2021. While From Software may not be ready to show us anything official from the game yet, fans still made sure that Elden Ring got a mention on the Game Awards stage after winning the award for the most anticipated game.

As a category voted on by fans, Elden Ring was up against upcoming titles including the God Of War sequel, Horizon Forbidden West, Halo Infinite, Resident Evil Village, and the Breath of the Wild sequel for the most anticipated game. Game Awards host Geoff Keighley seemed to anticipate that many fans were waiting on Elden Ring news from the event, adding “there, I said it,” after reading out the name of the game.

Unfortunately, this little tidbit was all we saw of Elden Ring from The Game Awards, which is the last big gaming event of the year. The last time anything was seen of From Software’s upcoming game was when it was announced at E3 last year.

Elden Ring was among our most anticipated games of 2020, but obviously, it didn’t come in 2020 after all. From Software recently mentioned it by name to give a sign of life, and Xbox head Phil Spencer says he’s played “quite a bit” of it.