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Call of Duty: Warzone now includes 30 new weapons from Black Ops Cold War and players are having trouble adapting to them. They've found that the new weapons are at a disadvantage compared to ones that have been in Warzone since March.

"These guns cannot and will not be able to compete with the current Modern Warfare guns," said Redditor ruckh in a thread about the new update. "It boils down to the attachments--specifically the barrel, the suppressors, and the grips."

Black Ops Cold War weapons were brought to Warzone with all of their original attachments and stat types--which are different to the ones used in Modern Warfare and Warzone. The attachments they do have can't compete with ones that were available before the update.

Epic has kicked off its annual Holiday Sale, which includes big discounts on a wide variety of PC games. Not only can you get games like Immortals Fenyx Rising, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, and others for their lowest prices yet on PC, but you can also save even more on your purchases thanks to nifty, unlimited coupons. The Holiday Sale runs until January 11, so you have a few weeks to take a look around.

Like other big sales at Epic, the extra promotion make the discounts even more enticing. If you have an Epic Games Store account (which is free), you simply need to sign in to claim a $10 off coupon. The coupon works on all games priced $15 and up. Best of all? You'll get a new coupon with every eligible purchase. This means every game on the Epic Games Store priced above $15 is effectively $10 cheaper than the advertised discount. Coupons will expire at the end of the sale.

Bravely Default II has received a second--and final--demo, allowing players interested in the RPG sequel to check it out ahead of the Switch title's 2021 release. The demo is available now on the Eshop through the game's store page.

The Bravely Default II final demo features the game's four main characters some way into their adventure, meaning that many of the systems introduced early in the game are available to demo players from the start. Jobs and Abilities can be used and swapped, for instance.

Players who download the demo ahead of the game's launch will also be able to nab 100 My Nintendo Platinum Points, which can be redeemed for rewards through the My Nintendo portal.

The demo weighs in at 3.3GB. The game releases on February 26, 2021, and is available to preorder now.

Bravely Default II is, somewhat confusingly, the third game in the Bravely series. The original Bravely Default on 3DS was followed by a direct sequel, Bravely Second. This Switch game has a new cast of characters and setting, though.

Developer Spry Fox has announced Cozy Grove, a new game set on a haunted island that's giving off some serious Animal Crossing vibes. But whether or not this game has taken inspiration from Nintendo's massive series, Cozy Grove's big difference is that the island is swarming with ghosts.

The game, which is coming to Switch, PS4, Xbox One, PS5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC in the first half of 2021, casts players as a "Spirit Scout". It's up to them to seek out the ghosts of the island and help them, building up a camp and crafting new materials as you go.

You'll also be able to go fishing, as the trailer below shows.

Spry Grove's earlier games include Road Not Taken and the Alphabear series.

Big Pixel Studios, the developer behind the popular Rick & Morty mobile RPG spin-off Pocket Mortys, is shutting down. The studio, which was bought by Adult Swim in mid-2018 after making the Pokemon-like adventure, will be shuttered at the end of 2020, leaving is employees out of work.

According to a report from Gamesindustry.biz, around 40 people are affected by this closure.

Developer Laurie James announced the news on Twitter, saying that the team's next game won't be released. "Some hella good people here, who made something proper cool," he said. "Unfortunately you'll never get to play it, because capitalism."

The PlayStation 5 released worldwide in November, but right now it's very difficult to buy one, with stock in short supply. One issue since preorders opened has been the prevalence of scalpers, including bots that automatically buy systems to then resell at a higher price. Now, figures out of Japan suggest this might be an even more severe problem than first thought.

Bloomberg reports that strong console sales are not necessarily translating into software sales. Figures they've taken from Famitsu show that the system has sold 213,000 units in Japan since launch, but the sales for physical releases of the system's top 3 games (Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Demon's Souls, and an unnamed third-party title) come to just 63,000 units.

Comparably, the Switch sold 525,000 units in its first month, and saw that almost matched with 509,000 sales for its top 3 games.

There are numerous caveats here--because of forwards compatibility, it's likely that many customers have bought PS4 versions of certain games for less money, and digital sales figures have been on the rise. The PS5 also has a digital only version, which would drive down physical sales, too. But the disparity is great enough to signal an issue, and because the PS5 is sold at a loss--as most consoles are at launch--Sony is reliant on software sales to make money.

Nintendo's most recent Indie World showcase was a big one, and while we were busy watching it, an exciting new game dropped on the system. Dicey Dungeons, the latest game from VVVVVV and Super Hexagon creator Terry Cavanaugh, is now available on the Nintendo Switch.

In Dicey Dungeons, players choose from numerous playable dice characters, all of which have unique abilities. As you move between the nodes of each level, you'll come up against various enemies. Combat is based on dice rolls, with Yahtzee-like rules: you can play a rolled number on a corresponding attack, or you can re-roll dice several times to try and get numbers that better suit your abilities. As you go, you can power up and re-spec your dice, and if you die you need to start over.

The game costs $15 on Switch, with a 10% discount currently active for launch.

Call of Duty: Warzone is never gonna let you down. New songs, including Rick Astley's classic Never Gonna Give You Up, have been added to the game as vehicle tracks.

One of the most exciting things you can do in Warzone is hop in a vehicle and soar through Verdansk while blasting the horn. Players can customize what sound they make when they honk their car horns--those options now include the infamous rickrolling song. They better hope that someone isn't hiding on a nearby rooftop with an RPG.

If you don't know what it means to get Rickrolled, this link should be a good explainer.

Hades players can now access their save files on both PC and Nintendo Switch. Supergiant Games released an update that added the cross-save feature earlier today, December 16.

Cross-save functionality was originally promised alongside Hades' launch on Nintendo Switch, but Supergiant Games decided to push the feature to focus on the game itself. The studio said it delayed the feature so it wouldn't have to delay the full release of the game.

Other improvements that had already been released on PC were also added to the Nintendo Switch with the update today. You can download it by launching Hades from the Nintendo Switch menu. Full patch notes for the update can be found on Supergiant's website.

Over the next week, we will be posting features for what we've nominated to be the best games of 2020. Then, on December 17, we will crown one of the nominees as GameSpot's Best Game of 2020, so join us as we celebrate these 10 games on the road to the big announcement. Be sure to check out our other end-of-the-year coverage collected in our Best Games of 2020 hub.

Who would have thought that 11 years after its initial launch, Demon's Souls--a game described by a current senior PlayStation executive as "crap" and an "unbelievably bad game" when he played it during development--would be the showpiece for a new generation of PlayStation console.

From Software's PlayStation 3 original was, at the time, something that felt harsh and alienating to many. But for those who clicked with it, the game was a wholly unique experience that offered rewarding challenges with a palpable sense of self-improvement, a thoughtfully constructed world to explore and unpack, and a fascinating narrative that rewarded those willing to piece it together.

Blizzard has gone mostly quiet regarding Overwatch 2 this year, especially with the cancellation of BlizzCon. We know now when we'll be hearing more from the team, though, as game director Jeff Kaplan outlined upcoming plans in a year-end developer update video.

Kaplan said that we'll be hearing more details on Overwatch 2 in February at BlizzCon Online. That event was announced as a substitute for the in-person event that was canceled this year, and it only made sense that we'd hear more about Blizzard's upcoming slate of games and big game updates there.

The developer update also detailed a new free-for-all map, Kanezaka, coming to the original Overwatch, and recapped the game's updates throughout this year. Kaplan also mentioned that the team is mostly focused on Overwatch 2 right now.

Rocket League is getting official NFL decals of all 32 teams starting tomorrow, December 17. Psyonix announced the news on its official Twitter account.

The decals place the logo on the hood of each car, alongside a special color palette that matches each team. You can even get the logo for the Washington Football Team, the temporary team name for Washington DC's club. The team changed their name from the Washington Redskins before the 2020 season due to backlash from fans.

"The NFL Fan Pack comes with slick new Octane Decals for all 32 NFL teams," the studio wrote on its official site. "Check them out in the slideshow below! The Pack will be available for purchase in-game until December 28 for 800 Credits. Look out for the pack as its own tab within the Item Shop."

Call of Duty: Warzone players have been anticipating the big update that would bring the battle royale together with Treyarch's Black Ops Cold War. However, many players were disappointed to find that the XP tokens they saved have been removed from Warzone completely.

"Did you guys notice that they took all our XP tokens from MW?" said Redditor IzNotorious. "I've been stacking them for a long time and I thought I could use them to level up my weapons in Cold War, only to notice that they took them all? Do you guys have the same problem?"

XP tokens help players level up faster by giving them double or triple the experience for a short period of time. Many players were saving them to level up the Black Ops Cold War weapons that were just added to Warzone. Now they're finding that they can only be used in Modern Warfare's multiplayer.

Sephiroth became the second Final Fantasy character to come to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate when he was announced at The Game Awards. Players can get a deeper look at him with game director Masahiro Sakurai's special presentation on December 17.

The presentation will be on December 17 at 2 PM PT / 5 PM ET. Players can watch the 35-minute stream on Nintendo's YouTube and Twitch pages. Nintendo's Facebook and Twitter feeds will be updated regularly with info from the stream if you're unable to watch it live.

Season 1 of Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War has officially begun. As part of its first season, a wealth of new content is now live in Cold War, as well as Warzone, including new weapons, maps, modes, and more. Developer Treyarch has outlined all the new additions in its Season 1 patch notes, which you can learn more about below.

On the Warzone side, the new Rebirth Island map is now available. This stage is much smaller and denser than the game's Verdansk map, supporting up to 40 players and emphasizing close-range firefights. Alongside the map, a Rebirth Island seasonal event is also now live. It includes 16 new challenges that will net you calling cards, charms, emblems, the Noxious LMG blueprint, and other rewards.

Rebirth Island also features a new mode: Resurgence. Here, the gulag is disabled, and eliminated players will respawn every 30 seconds until the match reaches the final circle or only one team remains. On top of that, killing enemy players will reveal where the rest of their teammates are currently located.

The technical issues surrounding the launch of Cyberpunk 2077 have had an impact on CD Projekt Red's stock value, and that in turn is reportedly hitting its founders' net worth. Bloomberg reports that the company's founders have cut the value of their joint stake by $1 billion in only a matter of days.

The joint 34% stake in the Polish company is co-owned by three executives--Marcin Iwinski, Adam Kicinski, and Piotr Nielubowicz--along with a fourth owner, Michal Kicinski. Those four have become the among the wealthiest Poles in recent years as anticipation grew for Cyberpunk. But as the stock has been dropping, so has their wealth. Their stake was reportedly worth about $3 billion on Tuesday.

Perhaps more importantly, analysts say this launch has cost the studio significant credibility. Average analyst forecasts for 12-month sales dropped from 30 million copies before the release to 25.6 million copies now.

Cyberpunk 2077's Night City is massive and dense, and it can be pretty easy to lose your bearings while moving through the environments and talking to the various people you encounter. Especially early on, you may feel overwhelmed, but Piggyback's interactive map will help to make things a whole lot easier.

Available in a basic version for free and a premium version that includes progress tracking custom notes, and more, the Piggyback map provides you with icons for nearly everything there is to find in Night City, including vendors, missions, drop points, fixers, and more. You can zoom in to look at certain streets or buildings more closely, with the high-res version being locked being the premium version.

Tis the season for Christmas and winter-themed in-game events, and the latest to drop is Overwatch's Winter Wonderland. Players can now load up the new 4v4 Freezethaw Elimination game mode or get started on weekly challenges to unlock Christmas-themed epic skins and other rewards.

The biggest mix-up Winter Wonderland brings is the new game mode, Freezethaw Elimination, which joins Mei’s Snowball Offensive, Yeti Hunt, and Snowball Deathmatch. In the new mode, four players must work together to freeze all four players on the other team. Players will become frozen instead of dying, and can be thawed with the help of a teammate.

Weekly challenges will reward players who win at least nine games per week. The weekly rewards are all epic skins: Elf Junkrat in the first week, Gingerbread Ana for week 2, while the week 3 reward is Frosty Roadhog.

After Sky: Children of the Light was announced for the Nintendo Switch in March this year, the release had to be delayed into 2021 due to work changes caused by COVID-19. Now, Thatgamecompany has confirmed a new release window of Spring 2021, after the game was featured on Nintendo Japan's Indie World presentation.

Sky first launched for iOS in July 2019, followed by an Android launch in April this year. The game has since racked up over 50 million downloads across both platforms, and won awards such as Apple's 2019 Game of the Year and Best Gameplay and People’s Choice in the 2020 Games for Change awards.

For most of Cyberpunk 2077, you'll have free rein to take on activities in Night City in any order you please. Much of the main story is divided into parallel investigations as V tries to find people who might know about the biochip in their head, and at any point, you can wander off and work your way through a variety of side missions. At some point, though, you'll hit the end of the road. From here, the main story continues on to its conclusion, leaving you with no opportunities to do any more side content until you've reached the end.

Cyberpunk 2077 politely marks this point in the story for you, flashing a big "Point of No Return" message on your screen so you don't bumble into the game's finale before you're ready. But at the same time, Night City is absolutely overwhelmingly flush with things to do, from side jobs to Fixer gigs to question marks and NCPD scanner hustles. And if you're not interested in completing everything, or if you find yourself impatient to know how it all ends, you might be asking how much of all that side material you absolutely need to do.

The good news is that there's a lot of side quests you can ignore without consequence. The bad news is that a few of them can be pretty important to how the game shakes out, even having an effect on the ending. Here's a complete rundown of everything you should scratch off your list before you pass the Point of No Return in Cyberpunk 2077 so you can be in the best possible story shape for the endgame. It's worth noting, though, that you can continue to level up your character and earn some extremely powerful weapons through additional side quests, and pursuing that stuff might not be a bad idea. Although we tried to limit them, there are SPOILERS beyond this point!

After a long, slow rollout, Halo: The Master Chief Collection is fully available on PC--but it's not done with major updates yet. Halo 1-4, plus 3 ODST and Halo Reach, will receive more features in 2021, developer 343 Industries has promised, with many big features currently in active development.

As part of the MCC December 2020 Update, 343 Industries' "farn" has outlined some of the improvements coming to the six Master Chief Collection titles coming next year, including various quality-of-life changes and new options.

Here's everything that the team is actively working on right now, with most of these updates planned for early 2021.

There are a lot of perks you can buy for your character in Cyberpunk 2077, allowing you to customize your version of V to fit your play style and the ways you want to approach the game. There's one perk, however, that you should absolutely avoid--at least in the early part of the game when you're trying to earn money. That perk is called "Scrapper," and it will rob you.

You'll find the Scrapper perk under the Technical Ability attribute, on the Crafting skill tree. At first, it sounds useful enough. Scrapper allows you to automatically break down junk items into crafting components. Cyberpunk 2077 is littered with things that are considered "junk," like old vinyl records, ashtrays, packs of cards, lighters, and dildos. (It's worth noting that a recent update seems to have drastically reduced the number of dildos appearing in the game. For a while, though, there were so. many. dildos.)

Most of the junk items you find in Night City really are junk, and if you check them out in your Backpack, you'll find that they're pretty worthless. Most junk items will net you about 3 Eurodollars (or "eddies" in Night City parlance), so they're basically not worth the effort you'd expend in picking them up and lugging them to a vendor to unload them. Along that line, you might think Scrapper sounds great, since you can instantly break down junk you don't actually want, and that way it's not littering your backpack, weighing down your character (in a literal sense, because if you become over-encumbered by the stuff you're carrying, you won't be able to move quickly).

At this point, it's well-documented that the Nintendo Switch has had an incredible year, with sales of the console up across 2020. Now, Nintendo of Canada has announced some sales milestones the Switch has achieved in the country this year, and they're very impressive.

So far, the system has sold 790,000 units through the end of November. In that last month alone, the system sold an incredible 148,000 units. In 2019, the Switch sold 628,000 units in total in the country. Canada has a total population of 37.5 million, and now a lot of them are Switch owners.

These figures include the combined totals of the standard Switch and the portable-only Switch Lite.

Cyberpunk 2077 doesn't just have a massive arsenal of weapons and cybernetics to acquire; it also has an enormous suite of vehicles to drive. With more than 30 cars and bikes to find throughout your career as a Street Samurai in Night City, you have plenty of options when it comes to getting around town in style and with astonishing speed.

However, Night City and its surrounding areas also hide some vehicles that will take some effort to find and acquire. In this quick roundup, we pulled together a list of some of the more iconic cars you can see in the game. While most vehicles in the game can be stolen or bought, we've rounded up the ones you can find by doing quests or just by heading to the right part of town.

Jackie's Arch (Motorcycle)

This motorcycle will be one of the first bikes you'll add to your catalog of vehicles. Custom made for Jackie, this souped-up and well-designed motorcycle--with some fantastic decals--is an excellent pick for anyone looking for a reliable bike to cruise Night City.

Hitman 3, the conclusion to the current Hitman trilogy, releases on January 20, and now the first cinematic has been revealed. If you didn't finish the first two games, you might want to do so before watching it, though.

The trailer shows Agent 47 teaming up with Lucas Grey, the Shadow Client, as they go after Providence together. The organization has been pulling a lot of strings behind the scenes across the entire trilogy, and while Grey was an enemy for much of the first two games, things changed at the end of Hitman 2.

You can watch the full cinematic above, and get excited for Hitman 3's release early next year. The trailer also gives us a brief glimpse of the outside of the Dubai map building, which will be the first mission.

Gnosia was announced for an English language release on Switch during the latest Nintendo Indie World Showcase, and it looks very interesting. This is a social deduction game about figuring out which members of a spaceship crew are alien invaders disguised as other crew members. It's a similar premise to Among Us, except that this is a single-player visual novel game.

A round of Gnosia lasts only 5-15 minutes, with the player losing if the number of Gnosia on board overtakes the number of humans. Each time you play, which characters are human and which aren't changes, so you'll need to make fresh deductions each time.

Over many games, you can learn some of the secrets of the Gnosia.

Best Buy had some excellent PC gaming deals during Black Friday, and now just before the holidays, two of Razer's best products are discounted: the Razer DeathAdder V2 gaming mouse for $50 (was $70) and the Razer Huntsman Tournament Edition gaming keyboard for $90 (was $130). The DeathAdder V2 deal is only available to those with a My Best Buy account, which is free to sign up for. All you need to do is sign into your account and the discount will be available. Both deals are available until December 17.

The DeathAdder V2 and the Huntsman Tournament Edition make for an excellent PC gaming setup and will work perfectly for everything from RPGs like Cyberpunk 2077 to competitive shooters like Fortnite and Rainbow Six Siege. It's also possible to customize both products' Chroma RGB lighting with the Razer Synapse software and sync them together so they match and alternate at the same time.

You can see both products below, but if you're interested in more recommendations, check out our guides to the best gaming keyboard and best gaming mouse. We cover a slew of products from Corsair, SteelSeries, HyperX, Razer, and more.

Fortnite's new mode, The Spy Within, recreates Among Us in the third-person shooter. It's now available in-game as a special limited-time mode. A Twitch stream featuring Sarah Silverman will showcase the mode and Fortnite's Houseparty video chat system today.

The mode is featured in a playlist with several different takes on the murder mystery formula, each made by a different Fortnite creator. The playlist will feature maps from DolphinDom, KKSlider, Bunni_, Wert, Blanky, jstKamui, MackJack, Ritual and Snownymous.

The mode has 10 players broken up into two teams: eight agents and two spies. The agents must try and complete their objectives before getting killed by the spies. The spies need to eliminate agents while remaining undetected. Sound familiar?

Over the next week, we will be posting features for what we've nominated to be the best games of 2020. Then, on December 17, we will crown one of the nominees as GameSpot's Best Game of 2020, so join us as we celebrate these 10 games on the road to the big announcement. Be sure to check out our other end-of-the-year coverage collected in our Best Games of 2020 hub.

Spiritfarer is a cozy resource management and farming sim with a dreamy, colorful art style and adorable talking animals. It's also a game about death, grief, and the process of letting go. Though these two aspects may seem at odds, Spiritfarer finds a delicate balance between its lighthearted adventure gameplay and the heavier themes woven throughout, offering a large, intriguing world to explore and characters you'll come to love along the way.

Just a few days ago, The Game Awards 2020 revealed a battery of trailers for highly-anticipated games, like a new Perfect Dark, the Left 4 Dead-like Back 4 Blood, and the dreamy Open Roads. However, for some, the most notable game barely made an appearance at all. Despite receiving the Most Anticipated Game award, From Software's latest project, Elden Ring, didn't receive any new details or trailers, which caused the game's community to explode in a memetic meltdown that still shows no signs of stopping.

To be clear, the Elden Ring subreddit is a surprisingly non-toxic environment compared to other video game spaces on the internet, and most of the memes and posts in the community are all in good fun. Still, there was definitely a sense of deflation in the subreddit when The Game Awards ended without an update on the game. One of the top posts all-time on the subreddit came just moments after the event ended, and it speaks for itself:

Very Very Valet is a new cooperative game about parking cars in zany ways. The game, developed by Los Angeles-based studio Toyful Games, debuted during Nintendo's Indie World broadcast on Tuesday.

"One to four players control an 'elite' team of puppet valets, working together to overcome any and all valet-related challenges," reads Toyful Games' official site. "It's going to take teamwork and a certain 'just park it anywhere' mentality to save the world from a severe parking crisis! It's not enough to just be a valet - be a VERY VERY VALET."

Very Very Valet will include more than 20 levels, including city streets, cliffsides, bowling alleys, airports, and trainyards. Toyful Games will also offer "accessible driving controls" for easy pick-up-and-play fun.

During the December 2020 Nintendo Indie World livestream, developer Playfellow Studio and publisher Rogue Games revealed the very cute and very vicious cat brawler Fisti-Fluffs

The game is a 3D action-brawler with up to four-player local and online multiplayer featuring fighting cats. Players can create their feline fighter and dress them with an assortment of accessories while clawing at their friends. There are six fully-destructible stages to play on with five different game types, including a cat food defense mode called Kibble Defense.

A demo of Fisti-Fluffs is available on both itch.io and Steam for Windows PCs, with a release planned for early next year. The game hits Nintendo Switch early next year as well. It's also coming to Android and iOS devices, though a release date for those has not been specified. Check out some screenshots, as well as the system requirements for Fisti-Fluffs, down below.

There are many engineers out there who solve problems that the vast majority of people can't even properly comprehend, and there are others who go the extra mile to find problems that most of us aren't even aware of. A software engineer and game developer named Ben Carter has figured out a way to get ray tracing working on an SNES, and the results are pretty incredible.

As any hardcore SNES fan knows, several of the console's most popular games relied on a chipset that was included as part of the cartridge itself in order to help the SNES achieve certain technological goals. The best-known example of this is the Super FX chip that powered the original Star Fox. Carter has designed a chip in that mold that he calls the SuperRT that allows the SNES to perform ray tracing.

Carter's video shows off what the SuperRT is capable of, and it includes all of the very finicky details on how he got it to work. Essentially, however, it works on the same principle as the Super FX chip: the SuperRT constructs the scene and feeds it to the SNES's processor in language it can understand. The nest of cables shown in the video isn't due to any particular technical wizardry on Carter's part; most of them are level shifter cables that allow the SuperRT's field-programmable gate array board and the SNES to run at the same voltage.

Over the next week, we will be posting features for what we've nominated to be the best games of 2020. Then, on December 17, we will crown one of the nominees as GameSpot's Best Game of 2020, so join us as we celebrate these 10 games on the road to the big announcement. Be sure to check out our other end-of-the-year coverage collected in our Best Games of 2020 hub.

Your first trip through Hades, like most, will end in death. But that first run is an exciting one, revealing an evolution of the isometric action-RPG combat that Supergiant has been mastering since 2011's Bastion. You'll see how you can utilize your dash to avoid danger or press the attack; discover how positioning matters due to dangerous traps littered throughout levels and the bonus damage you can deal to enemies from behind or by knocking them into walls; and get a taste of the upgrades that you'll be able to encounter and equip to ensure each run feels distinct.

It all makes for an immediately satisfying combat system. Then you die, maybe after encountering a boss or, more likely in those early runs, by falling prey to a seemingly innocuous foe or a trap you set off. Whatever the case, you head back to the House of Hades, chat up some of the residents--including your father, Hades--and set out again. You'll die once again, maybe after making it a bit further, or perhaps even sooner due to overconfidence or sheer bad luck. However you earn your trip back to home, you'll again speak with Hades and others, and the true core of the game will begin to reveal itself.

Gaming peripherals brand SteelSeries has announced the acquisition of KontrolFreek. The KontrolFreek name will live on after the sale, with the company continuing as a wholly owned subsidiary of SteelSeries.

KontrolFreek are best known for their controller-augmenting thumbsticks and controller grips, with themed products allowing for gamers to customize their controllers after their favorite games. The company targets console players, with accessories available for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch, as well as PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. They also sell a range of cables, along with RGB lights for customizing gaming stations.

With much of SteelSeries' existing product range focusing on PC gamers, the KontrolFreek acquisition will give them an edge with console players, right when four new consoles are being released onto the market.

After years of anticipation, the release of Cyberpunk 2077 has been soured by bugs ranging from funny graphical glitches to game-breaking crashes. The bulk of these are occurring for players on PS4 and Xbox One, which led CD Projekt Red to suggest that players who are unhappy with the game should seek refunds.

Depending on what country you're in and where you bought the game, however, this might not be the easiest task. In a tweet, CD Projekt Red admitted that the game had performance issues on PS4 and Xbox One, and recommended seeking a refund at your point of sale. "For copies purchased digitally, please use the refund system of PSN or Xbox respectively. For boxed versions, please first try to get a refund at the store where you bought the game."

As Lifehacker reports, online retailers like Amazon and Walmart have extended their returns periods for the holidays, which may be a bonus for unhappy Cyberpunk 2077 players. However digital storefronts like Steam, the PSN Store, and Microsoft store often have more restrictive refund policies.

The Hong Kong Massacre, a stylish, brutal, difficult top-down action game that hit PS4 and PC in early 2019, is coming to Switch. The shooter, a tale of revenge that wears its Hotline Miami influence on its sleeve, will release on the Nintendo Switch Eshop on December 26.

The reveal trailer below shows off how the game looks on Switch--and it looks very much like the PS4/PC versions of the game. The game will cost $20, but it can be preordered at a discounted price of $16.

Warning: the trailer below is very violent, as is the game itself.

Cyberpunk 2077 is a huge game, and part of what makes the size of Night City compelling is the number of options you'll have to go through many of its missions. When working your way through the territory of gangs, corps, or other enemies, you can go in guns blazing, pick a stealthier approach, or even often talk your way out of conflicts altogether. Having more options allows you to tune Cyberpunk 2077 to your playstyle.

Apart from the character attributes you choose to invest in, one of the biggest ways you'll unlock new paths for yourself is through your cyberware. These are the cybernetic augmentations you can install in your body, enhancing your strength, vision, hacking capabilities, and more. But there's one piece of cyberware you should absolutely get, even if you ignore all the others--it'll change the way you play Cyberpunk 2077 and open up a whole lot of possibilities, from how you approach missions to how you get around the world.

That piece of cyberware is the Reinforced Tendons upgrade for your legs, and it unlocks an extremely useful ability: double jump.

There are many ways in Cyberpunk 2077 to deck out your V and improve their capabilities. Along with a massive arsenal of guns, including a talking gun that fancies the songs of Rhianna, there is also an extensive array of cybernetic upgrades for you to acquire. Given the scope of the game's Cyberware system, we wanted to single out some of the best upgrades in the game that you should invest in.

Along with breaking down some of the most powerful upgrades, we also explain where to find them in the game. We also highlight some notable upgrades that you might be better avoiding in order to save time and your hard-earned eddies.

Night City's Best Cyberware

Reinforced Tendons (Double Jump): Biomechanical connective tissue supporting leg muscles.

These leg upgrades will allow V to perform a double jump, a video game staple across many different action games and platformers. If your character is particularly agile, this upgrade is a must if you want to reach some of the harder reach areas around Night City, or just want to put some extra finesse into different combat encounters.

Fans of the Donkey Kong Country trilogy on SNES, rejoice--Donkey Kong Country 3 is joining the Nintendo Switch Online collection this month. The third game in the trilogy--which is not quite as beloved as the first two, but is still well-regarded--arrives on December 18, alongside four other games.

Donkey Kong Country 3 features Dixie and Kiddy Kong, on a quest to rescue Donkey and Diddy. The game introduced overworld vehicles and some new moves, and it still looks great in 2020.

There are three more SNES games and a NES game coming on December 18, too. The other SNES games are a bit more obscure, and you can check them out in the trailer below.

The Ignition Factor is a game about fighting fires, Super Valis IV is a scrolling action game, and Tuff E Nuff is a fighting game. While these games are unlikely to stir up as much nostalgia as Donkey Kong, there's still bound to be some love for them among players.

Nightshade on the NES is an interesting choice, too--it's an adventure game, developed by Australian Beam Software. The 1992 game was criticized for poor controls at the time, but it's an interesting curio, and definitely a title that few players have had a chance to experience.

The NES/SNES library on Nintendo Switch Online now features over 90 games.