For those yearning to get another look at CD Projekt Red’s upcoming dystopian RPG Cyberpunk 2077, the indefinite wait just got a lot shorter: The Witcher developer has assured its fans that the game will be present at E3 2019. While there are currently no new details, this confirmation has stirred an online firestorm of intrigue, speculation, and pure hype.
Cyberpunk 2077 is CD Projekt Red’s love letter to Cyberpunk 2020, the genre-defining 1990 tabletop game that set players loose upon neon-tinted Night City, a late stage capitalist urban sprawl dominated by a deep criminal underworld and corrupt megacorporations. Since it stole the show with a closed doors gameplay showcase at last year’s E3, the last anyone has glimpsed of Cyberpunk 2077 was a developer stream of the same demo in August 2018. According to CD Projekt Red, prospective players will get their annual Cyberpunk fix this summer.
In a characteristically nonchalant tweet, the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account reassures fans that the game will be at E3 2019 in some form, stating only, “For those of you asking, yes, we will be at E3 this year.” As can be expected with all official Cyberpunk 2077 tweets, fans have immediately begun voicing their collective excitement through gifs and harmlessly wild speculation. Beyond that comforting sentence, CD Projekt Red is resuming its calculated silence, and - considering the game’s so-far leak-free development - they will likely remain that way until this June.
Nothing besides a largely foreseen E3 appearance has been confirmed by this announcement, but the timing of CD Projekt Red’s cryptic message calls into question previous doubts cast upon the game’s potential to receive a 2019 release date. Though a 2020 release date is still likely, the astonishing polish flaunted by last year’s vertical slice of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay points to the possibility that the game is much closer to its finished state than expected. However, Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot of promises to live up to, such as CD Projekt Red’s assertion the game will lack loading screens and be completely microtransaction-free, so perhaps such an early release date doesn’t need to be one of them.
Gamers everywhere (or at least those few who haven’t done so already) are likely marking their calendars for this year’s E3 2019, and they can count on Screen Rant to closely watch Cyberpunk 2077’s ongoing development as it inches closer and closer to the finish line. Whether it releases this year or the next, it’s doubtless that disparate fans of CD Projekt Red, gritty sci-fi stories, and sprawling open worlds will unite when Cyberpunk 2077 finally emerges from its shell.
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