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About 100 employees will lose their jobs. Gaming 

CD Projekt Red to reduce workforce by nine percent

Febin Mathew, ,

CD Projekt Red, the developer of the popular Witcher video game series, is reportedly facing a situation where it has more employees than available work. Consequently, the company has recently revealed plans to reduce its workforce by approximately nine percent, resulting in around 100 job cuts. This announcement comes after previous rounds of layoffs in May and June, which saw 29 employees being let go from The Molasses Flood (a subsidiary of CD Projekt Red), followed by another 30 individuals who were working on a downsized Witcher card game. “To…

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Cyberpunk maker CD Projekt sued by investor for botched launch

Nitin Misra, ,

CD Projekt SA, the Polish video game publisher Cyberpunk 2077, has been sued by an investor who claims the company has misled them about the potential of the error-ridden game whose botched release this month made plunge stocks. Andrew Trampe sued Thursday in federal court in Los Angeles and is seeking to represent other investors who have purchased the company s securities. CD Projekt did not disclose that Cyberpunk 2077 was “virtually unplayable on current generation Xbox or Playstation systems due to a huge number of bugs,” according to the…

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The highly anticipated RPG Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10 (CD Projekt Red) News 

Cyberpunk 2077 game sales reach 13 million after refunds

Nitin Misra, , , , ,

Polish game studio CD Projekt Red sold 13 million copies of its troubled Cyberpunk 2077 game on December 20, a figure that takes into account the number of refund requests the company has received. The studio’s expected sales update does not include information on the extent of reimbursements, only net sales figures. Cyberpunk 2077 was so plagued by problems that Sony pulled the title off its PlayStation Store while Microsoft offered a full refund to Xbox users. This figure represents the estimated volume of retail sales across all hardware platforms…

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Karolina Kaluzynska, 28, plays CD Projekt's Cyberpunk 2077 game in Warsaw, Poland on December 14, 2020. REUTERS / Kacper Pempel (REUTERS) News Reviews 

Sony is removing Cyberpunk 2077 from PlayStation Store after public outcry

Febin Mathew,

Sony Corp. has removed CD Projekt SA’s Cyberpunk 2077 from its PlayStation Store and is offering full refunds, taking unusual steps to appease customers enraged by bugs affecting one of the most anticipated gaming blockbusters of the year. The sweeping move came after the console version of Cyberpunk 2077 launched on December 10 – after several delays – to mostly mediocre reviews and an online outcry from gamers frustrated with its poor performance. Warsaw-based developer CD Projekt has offered refunds to all disappointed gamers, but Sony is going one step…

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Players have gone online to report huge issues, frame rate issues, and more. on Cyberpunk 2077 while playing it on the PS4 and Xbox One consoles. (Cyberpunk 2077) News 

Cyberpunk 2077 console version faces low reviews

Nitin Misra

The console version of Cyberpunk 2077 mostly receives negative user scores, confirming previous concerns about technical issues that can appear when running the video game on less powerful platforms. CD Projekt SA’s futuristic new role-playing game is now rated an average of 2.1 out of 10 on the Metacritic review aggregator website by 2,161 players playing it on Sony’s PlayStation 4. Microsoft’s XBox One version got a score of 2.6 based on 732 users. The combined scores of journalists’ reviews are not yet available. Ahead of its premiere on December…

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