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BBC News By Vikki Blake image copyrightIRON GATE STUDIO image captionAt one stage Valheim could boast 500,000 concurrent players, despite being released in an incomplete "early access" form You wouldnt watch a film without an ending - so why do people buy unfinished video games? An incomplete version of Indie title Valheim - a Norse survival game - released to rip-roaring success earlier this year. Early access releases like Valheim are becoming increasingly common, particularly on PC shops lik...

For most communication campaigns, the holy grail is achieving cut through mainstream coverage. That fifteen minutes in the spotlight when you achieve reach beyond the boundary of your usual audience and start to entice new customers. However, for video games, mainstream coverage can often end in disappointment when an uninformed reporter asks questions like, "But what about violence in video games" or "Can you talk to me about loot boxes" or "Are video games safe"? Questions like these lead us...

BBC News By Steffan Powell Fighting to the death as poison gas encircles you and your mercenary friends. These experiences, and countless others, have been a lifeline for many in 2020. With gaming being so important this year, the Press X To Continue podcast team had a real challenge putting their awards of 2020 together. We wont give away the winners just yet - you can find them on BBC Sounds - but here are the contenders. The best game youve never heard of As well as the big guns like FIFA,...

BBC News Published image copyrightGetty Images Its safe to say things havent gone smoothly for the makers of Cyberpunk 2077. Probably the most anticipated release of 2020, its a game that took years of work and millions of Euros for CD Projekt Red to get onto shelves and into online stores. It even stars Keanu Reeves. And, if youve played the game on a good PC, then youve probably had a pretty sweet time. But for a lot of people jumping into the Cyberpunk 2077 world on older consoles, they foun...

The actor tells BBC Sounds podcast Press X To Continue about his role in Cyberpunk 2077.

BBC News Published image copyrightcdprojektred When Mike Pondsmith was writing the first Cyberpunk game back in the 1980s, he didnt think hed predict as much of the future as he has. "From cyberware to instant communications and massive corporate control, weve got it all now," he says. "The only thing we dont have is flying cars, which is really what I was hoping for. "But we do have an awful lot of Cyberpunk stuff going on in the real world and thats why I think the genre is popular again tod...