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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red is celebrating International Women’s Day by showing off an updated depiction of the feminine version of the protagonist, V. The new art is also Cyberpunk 2077’s reversible box art.

CD Projekt Red shared the new look from the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account. V still looks like the hardened citizen of Night City we’ve seen in other trailers and screenshots, with a few key differences. This feminine version of V now has much brighter red hair, pierced ears, and some minor changes to her face. It appears some of the smokey eyeshadow is gone, and the lines in her face (we assume an indicator of some past bodily modification or repair) swoop a little lower on her cheeks now.

Here's an older look, for reference.

The official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account confirmed in multiple tweets that this new image (the first on this page) will be the reverse box art cover, so you can decide whether you have a masculine or feminine V gracing your game.

Doom Eternal fans have been ready to rip and tear since the game was announced at E3 2018. There’s just one last question for those of us who prefer to slay our demons on PC: What are the PC system requirements? Bethesda has finally revealed what minimum and recommended settings you’ll need to play Doom Eternal at its best.

Doom Eternal can conceivably hit 1,000 frames per second. That comes with a pretty steep cost in terms of GPU power.

Minimum PC Specs for Doom Eternal

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7/64-Bit Windows 10

• Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 3.3 GHz or better, or AMD Ryzen 3 @ 3.1 GHz or better

• Memory: 8 GB RAM

• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4GB), GTX 1060 (6GB), GTX 1650 (4GB) or AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB)/RX 470 (4GB)

• Storage: 50 GB available space

• Additional Notes: (1080p / 60 FPS / Low Quality Settings)

Recommended PC Specs for Doom Eternal

• Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

• OS: 64-bit Windows 10

• Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K or better, or AMD Ryzen 7 1800X or better

• Memory: 16 GB RAM

• Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 (8GB), RTX 2060 (8GB) or AMD Radeon RX Vega56 (8GB)

• Storage: 50 GB available space

• Additional Notes: (1440p / 60 FPS / High Quality Settings)

With the improvements we’ve made to Aim Assist, we plan to remove the “Use Legacy Look Controls” setting on March 13.

The City of Austin has cancelled the March dates for SXSW and SXSW EDU. SXSW will faithfully follow the City’s directions. We are devastated to share this news with you. “The show must go on” is in our DNA, and this is the first time in 34 years that the March event will not take place. We are now working through the ramifications of this unprecedented situation. As recently as Wednesday, Austin Public Health stated that “there’s no evidence that closing SXSW or any other gatherings will make the community safer.” However, this situation evolved rapidly, and we honor and respect the City of Austin’s decision.

The premise of One-Punch Man shouldn’t work. If the main protagonist has infinite power and can defeat any enemy in one punch, how can that create a compelling story with stakes and danger? Where is the drama? And how can that possibly translate to a video game? Power fantasies are fun to control, but doesn’t absolute power get boring? The answer in the source material is to turn the whole story into a comedy that plays with the cliches established by decades of action anime, and it works well. The answer in One-Punch Man: A Hero Nobody Knows is to let you control Saitama, the titular One-Punch Man, only sparingly, and it does not work as well. But there are still some fun ideas peppered throughout.

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Craig Mazin, co-writer of the TV adaptation of The Last of Us, has promised that Ellie will still be gay in the HBO series.

After the TV series was announced yesterday, Mazin replied to some people who were asking him questions about it on Twitter, one of who brought up the topic of maintaining the characters' sexualities.

You have my word.

— Craig Mazin (@clmazin) March 5, 2020

It was first confirmed that Ellie is gay in The Last of Us DLC, Left Behind, in which she kisses her friend Riley in a flashback. Ellie's sexuality will be explored further and be much more present in The Last of Us Part 2.

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"Ellie is gay," co-writer Halley Gross said back in 2018. "Ellie was born gay. This is just who she is. And to explore who she is as a teenager and as an adult, it wouldn’t be honoring her character to hide some facet of herself. We want to engage with her as a full character."

The Wonderful 101: Remastered has surpassed $2 million in funding on Kickstarter, unlocking a new mission and extra stretch goals.

Unlocked by reaching this new funding goal is Luka's Second Mission, of which we only have a vague description to guess at what it might be: "Our young hero is back and ready for more adventure."

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Some idea might be gleaned by looking at Luka's First Mission, which was unlocked when Kickstarter funding reached $1.5 million, and is said to be a "brand new 2D side scrolling adventure starring a young hero."

Luka appears in the original game as a young, aspiring boy who encounters the Wonderful Ones several times throughout the story. He is eventually inducted into the team under the alias Wonder Googles on account of his goggles that fire laser beams.

Developer PlatinumGames has now revealed two more stretch goals as the Kickstarter enters its final hours. The first, unlocked at $2.25 million, is orchestral recordings for the songs "The Won-Stoppable Wonderful 101" and "Tables Turn."

The second new goal, unlocked at $2.5 million, is new languages added to the game. No specific languages are mentioned by Platinum asks for fans to let the studio know which languages they most want the game to support if this stretch goal is reached.

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• Lifeline - Connect a lifeline to an ally. Mekko takes 40% of their incoming damage. Press the mapped button again to wind the ally in. With Power Orb: Grant the target a shield.
• Safety Zone - Mark out a Safety Zone that grants Mekko and his allies armor and lifesteal. With Power Orb: Reduces healing received for enemies inside the area.
• Surge - Surge forwards, knocking enemies in your path.

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I can finally say that I've spent the last 3 months getting FONT SCALING into @OuterWorlds! You can get your hands on it very soon! I'm about to drop some GIFs of my work in game! pic.twitter.com/oVweRmg6Bt

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It’s strange to think that an office as small as this houses the developers behind two of my favorite games ever made.

Despite holding the same group of people who made Celeste and Towerfall, the sparse walls and humble layout of EXOK Games’ two-room studio could fool anyone into thinking they’re just starting out. And even though working here is business-as-usual in some ways for a team that’s been making smash hits together for nearly decade, in many others they are just getting started.

When I went to visit the newly formed Extremely OK Games (EXOK for short) in Vancouver, Canada late last year, it felt like the plastic had only just been peeled off the screens. But the developers’ recent move into this space (half of them from nearly 7,000 miles away) didn’t mean they weren’t already busy. At the time, Towerfall had just launched on Switch, Celeste’s free Chapter 9 DLC had recently come out, and designer Matt Thorson told me Celeste itself finally passed a whopping one million copies sold – not to mention they were already hard at work on their next game.

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EXOK is technically a new studio, but as I sat on a beanbag chair in that modest office, speaking to its team of five while they gathered their desk chairs in a semicircle around me, it became clear that founding an actual company together was almost a formality rather than some huge, life-changing decision.