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[Vattier]

Welcome to Watson!

Watson used to have it all. Nightclubs, skyscrapers, corporate offices, a top-end medcenter — even the biggest black market in Night City. Japanese corporations competing with Arasaka invested billions of eurodollars in the district, intending to make it self-sufficient and prosperous.

Everything changed when Arasaka returned to the city after the Unification War. It bled other corporations dry and changed Watson forever. Without a stable financial sector, Watson's glory days ended: the Northside Industrial District, once a cutting edge technology park, could no longer provide jobs, leaving people out on the street. This economic vacuum allowed Arasaka to take over and make Watson its own. In the end, Arasaka got what it wanted — port-access in the Waterfront.

Today, Watson is a sad and desperate place. It's one of Night City's poorest districts and it's a battleground between Maelstrom and Tyger Claws.

Maelstrom settled in the Northside Industrial District (also known as the NID). It's filled with factories (most of them abandoned) and working-class apartment blocks. You can also find the well-known Totentanz bar here.

Tyger Claws operate from Little China and Kabuki. Little China used to be an extension of Downtown; it's a high density urban region with skyscrapers, overpopulated with Asian immigrants during the late 2040s. You can find the old Med Center here. It used to be the best place in Night City to legally spend some money on your body, but now it’s overrun by the Kabuki Market.

Kabuki is a maze of narrow alleyways located right next to Little China. At night, they turn into a bazaar for implants, organs, steroids, and much more. Legend is that you can find anything you’re looking for in Kabuki Market. This makes Watson a prime target for Scavs, a ruthless group of people who harvest peoples’ organs and implants for resale on the balck market.

The rest of Watson is the Arasaka Waterfront. An area off limits for non-employees.


NORTHSIDE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT


LITTLE CHINA


KABUKI


ARASAKA WATERFRONT

 

[Lilayah]

Unleash your creativity and design an original metal pin to be produced by CDPR GEAR!

What is it about?

We want you to get inspired by our games and design a pin that you would like to see on your backpack, bag, jacket, or any other surface.

The contest is divided into four categories, and you can submit max one design per category (up to four pins in total):

• CD PROJEKT RED
• The Witcher series of games
• GWENT: The Witcher Card Game
• Cyberpunk 2077

Four winning designs (one in each category) will be made into reality – a Limited Edition Community Pin Set, and the designers’ names will be credited on the store’s website. Winners of each category will also receive a 150$ gift card to CDPR GEAR and the set of pins they contributed to.

How to enter?

1. Prepare a .JPG file with your design (make sure to follow the technical requirements listed here in paragraph 4).
2. Send an e-mail to store-contest@cdprojektred.com with the file as an attachment.
3. Wait for the results!

Submissions are open until July 31st, 23:59 CEST. Full ruleset is available here.

We’re looking forward to seeing your creations!

 

[Vattier]

Few leave the corporate world with their lives — fewer still with their souls intact. You've been there — you've bent the rules, exploited secrets and weaponized information. There's no such thing as a fair game, only winners and losers.

 

[Lilayah]

Hello, Night City!

Check out SAMURAI's newest release: The Ballad of Buck Ravers!

It is now available on Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Tidal, Deezer, Plus Music, and Amazon Music!

SAMURAI - The Ballad Of Buck Ravers

 

[Vattier]

I don't have a screenshot with V in corpo outfit, but I do have a couple of new screens. Added to the thread

 

[Vattier]

They say if you wanna understand the streets, you gotta live 'em. Gangs, fixers, dolls, small-time pushers — you were raised by them all. Down here the law of the jungle dictates the weak serve the strong — the only law in Night City you have yet to break.

 

[Vattier]

New screenshot added!

 

[Vattier]

Roaming the Badlands, looting scrapyards, raiding fuel depots — life on the road wasn't easy. But growing up in a Nomad clan has its perks. Honesty, integrity, and a love of freedom; qualities that few in Night City possess — and no amount of money can buy.

 

[Lilayah]

Dive into the world of Cyberpunk 2077 in true netrunner style with a chair directly from Secretlab!

The Secretlab Cyberpunk 2077 Edition is inspired by visual cues from the game as well as V’s personal style. Every aspect of the chair brings to life a unique element of Cyberpunk 2077. Stunning, neon yellow, featuring bright turquoise stitching along the edges, offers a subtle-yet-brilliant contrast with electrical traces running down the backrest. On one side, it evokes a future of high technology and mechanization, and on the other — the flaming logo of legendary chrome rock band Samurai brings the fiery, rebellious energy of the dark future to the surface!

It is now available to buy in two models: The Secretlab OMEGA and Secretlab TITAN, with limited quantities at launch!

Pick your seat at: https://secretlab.co/cyberpunk2077!

 

[Vattier]

So who noticed the 3 screenshots which appeared during our pre-stream countdown on Twitch?

These and more added to the list

 

[Lilayah]

The first episode of Night City Wire is now available!

Join Hollie Bennett on a 25-minute trip to Night City involving the reveal of a brand new trailer, a fresh look at gameplay, plenty of developer discussion about the game with Paweł Sasko (Lead Quest Designer) and Patrick Mills (Senior Quest Designer), and the first look at a never-before-seen feature: braindance!

Last but not least, direct from Tokyo, Saya Elder (Producer) together with the team from Studio Trigger unveil CYBERPUNK: EDGERUNNERS — an all new story set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077.

You don’t want to miss it!

 

[Lilayah]

We're excited to announce that together with an acclaimed Japan-based animation company, Studio Trigger, and the world's leading streaming entertainment service, Netflix, we're working on a new original anime series set in the same universe as Cyberpunk 2077!

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.

Hiroyuki Imaishi (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare) will direct the series along with assistant director Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Promare), creative director Hiromi Wakabayashi (Kill la Kill), character designers Yoh Yoshinari (Little Witch Academia, BNA: Brand New Animal) and Yuto Kaneko (Little Witch Academia), and the adapted screenplay by Yoshiki Usa (SSSS.GRIDMAN, Promare) and Masahiko Otsuka (Gurren Lagann, Kill la Kill, Promare). The original score will be composed by Akira Yamaoka (Silent Hill series).

The series will premiere in 2022.

More details to come!

 

[Lilayah]

Watch the brand new trailer showcasing the world, characters, story, and action of Cyberpunk 2077!

 

[Vattier]

Join us tomorrow, June 25 at 6PM CEST, at twitch.tv/cdprojektred for the first, 25 minute episode of Night City Wire, where we are going to show you a brand new trailer, present fresh gameplay footage and chat with the devs in detail about one of the game features, braindance.

 

[Dominika]

We're proud to announce Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team, new comic series created in cooperation with Dark Horse Comics!

Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team welcomes you into a world a deceit, greed, and desolation. Nadia, a citizen of Night City and the sole survivor of a failed rescue mission for the Trauma Team International corporation. After she agrees to continue work for an upcoming extraction mission, Nadia and her new team find themselves in an even more dangerous and life-threatening situation. Soon they’ll discover Trauma Team is not what it seems.

Working on the series are writer Cullen Bunn, artist Miguel Valderrama, colorist Jason Wordie and letterer Frank Cvetkovic.

Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team #1 arrives September 9, 2020.

 

[Dominika]

We're happy to confirm that Cyberpunk 2077 will be backwards compatible with both next-gen consoles!

What does it mean? Your PS4 copy of the game will work on PS5 on launch day. And similarly, anyone who buys the game on Xbox One will be able to play their copy on Xbox Series X when the console launches.

At a later date, we'll also release an upgrade to Cyberpunk 2077, which will take full advantage of the next-gen hardware.

Both of these options apply to owners of physical and digital copies of the game, and will be available for free.

 

[Dominika]

We have an important development update to share with you:

 

[Vattier]

We decided to move Night City Wire to Jun 25th. We still look forward to sharing new information about Cyberpunk 2077, but more important discussions are happening right now and we want them to be heard. We wholeheartedly stand against racism, intolerance and violence. Black Lives Matter.

 

[Vattier]

We are thrilled to announce that the 5 finalists for our ‘Cyber-up Your PC’ contest have been chosen by our expert jury. More than 1500 Chombattas from around the world answered the call to create the Cyberpunk 2077 case of their dreams, submitting some incredibly creative designs. We’d like to thank you all for participating — deciding on just 5 final designs was an incredibly tough choice to make!

These 5 finalists will be paired with professional case modders who will turn the designs into reality, and a grand winner will be chosen during the competition finale — set to take place in the form of an online event on 17th July, 2020. More details about the finale will be revealed closer to the event.

Take a look at the 5 astonishing final designs:

BONDYE’S THRONE

FINDERS KEEPERS

MILITECH 'CURVHEAD' BOT / MAELSTROM MOD

THE NEO BLACK

YAIBA KUSANAGI AURORA

All finalists will receive prizes for making it to the finale, which include top-of-the-line PC gaming gear sponsored by our partners Alienware, NVIDIA, and SteelSeries. The grand winner will be awarded a main prize during the online finale, to mark their impressive achievement!

If you’d like to learn more about this contest, please visit the official ‘Cyber-up Your PC’ contest website.

 

[Vattier]

Maelstrom’s territory is the industrial part of Watson. Its factories, the Totentanz Club – you’ll meet them there. They are obsessed with cybertechnology, and their urge to improve the weakness of human flesh is far stronger than their fear of cyberpsychosis.