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from the virtual front
- Corona
cancellations
Numerous publishers, studios, and other
gaming companies have been pulling out
of events over the past few weeks, owing
to the ongoing issues surrounding the
Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. While
Sony, CD Projekt, and others missed
out on PAX East, Kojima Productions,
EA, Unity, Microsoft, and Epic all made
it known they would not be attending
GDC, and the ultimate result has been
the event’s cancellation, with no new
dates announced at the time of writing.
Additionally, IEM Katowice – the esports
tournament – held its Counter-Strike
playoff tournament in front of a crowd of
zero, after permission for a mass event
licence was revoked by the Polish State
Sanitary Department.- Next-gen X-gen
The slow rumble of promises about the
next generation of consoles is continuing
to build, with the Xbox Series X firing the
first shots in the Teraflop Wars. Microsoft
is claiming its high-spec console (that
looks suspiciously like a desktop PC)
is aiming for 12 teraflops of GPU
performance, doubling what the Xbox
One X kicks out. Well, we don’t know
what to say. Really, because this teraflops
stuff is – aside from being a very rough
measure of what sort of power a
machine is capable of – little more than
marketing gumph. Variable rate shading,
ray tracing, SSD storage, 120fps support,
attempts to minimise latency – it all
sounds good, don’t misunderstand. But
we just want to see the games.- Take a breath
Let’s stick with that next-gen chatter for
this one – is it huge, earth-shattering
news? No. But it’s nice, and we like nice
here. Following the Xbox news (seen
slightly to the right of these words), CD
Projekt Red made an announcement of
its own about the upcoming Cyberpunk
2077. Namely: you buy it on Xbox, you
get it on all the Xboxes: “Gamers should
never be forced to purchase the same
game twice or pay for upgrades,” the
game’s account tweeted. “Owners of
#Cyberpunk2077 for Xbox One will
receive the Xbox Series X upgrade for
free when available.” D’aww.0301