Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City, a megalopolis obsessed with power, glamour and body modification. You play as V, a mercenary outlaw going after a one-of-a-kind implant that is the key to immortality. You can customize your character’s cyberware, skillset and playstyle, and explore a vast city where the choices you make shape the story and the world around you.

• A Juggler's Tale.
• Ami.
• Disc Room.
• Guinea Pig Parkour on Steam
• Olija.
• Selfloss.
• Song of Iron.

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New & Noteworthy
Many users rely on our charts for quick snapshots of what’s new and popular on Steam. These are now accessible from one menu, New & Noteworthy, which also provides direct access to the biggest events currently running Steam—including game festivals, publisher sales, and other seasonal celebrations.

My boss just revealed in the @remedygames CMD stream that the past November was Control's best selling month (15 months after launch). In total, Control has sold over 2 million copies to date.

After the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship™ went down to the thrilling final race weekend in Bahrain, Codemasters today allows players to rewrite history with a free F2™ 2020 season update as part of F1® 2020, the official videogame of the 2020 FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP™. Players can now compete with the full 2020 line-up featuring all 11 teams, cars, and drivers including the new FIA Formula 2™ Champion, Mick Schumacher.

The F2 game option replicates its real world counterpart with 12 weekends, each made up of two races. The first, known as the Feature Race, follows a standard format with drivers lining up based on their qualifying times, and points awarded to the top 10 placings. The second, Sprint Race, sees the Feature Race top eight positions reversed in a shorter race, with fewer points awarded to the top eight drivers. For both, there are two additional points available for the fastest lap.

Climbing a mountain has been the peak of my bucket list for years now, so imagine my surprise when I was finally offered the chance without ever leaving the comfort of my couch! It’s all thanks to the newest DLC for Minecraft Dungeons, Howling Peaks. For everyone with the ambition of reaching a mountaintop (but with the physical stamina of climbing over a pile of laundry) this is a perfect way to experience the summit views you’ve always dreamed of. Forget airline tickets, all you need is access to a Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, or Xbox One!

But just as a mountain range has many peaks (and just like I get endless mileage out of this metaphor), this release has even more to deliver. We’re also releasing the new Season Pass and a free update (including six new enchantments) – all available today! For more information on everything that is releasing today, please check out our previous announcement post here.

Unto The End is a challenging combat adventure game in the style of a cinematic platformer. The story is simple: get home to your family. Master read-react combat in intense sword fights. Spot opportunities to trade and use items. An adventure told through your actions, how will you make it home?

• Humble Game Dev Map & Level Creator Bundle (pay what you want and help charity).*
• Humble RPG Book Bundle: Pathfinder Monster Lore by Paizo (pay what you want and help charity).*
• Square Enix Sale at Green Man Gaming.*

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• Sea of Thieves Celebrates the Festival of Giving in December’s Free Update.
• Star Wars: The Old Republic Game Update 6.2 "Echoes of Vengeance" is live.
• Team Fortress 2 Update Released.

• Immortals Fenyx Rising - Accolades Trailer.
• How Watch Dogs: Legion's 'Play as Anyone' Simulation Works - AI and Games Documentary. Thanks Ant.

• The Emperor's Own by Volga Studios — Kickstarter. "A story-driven adventure game with RPG elements, set in an alternate universe, inspired by early 19th century Russian Empire." There's a playable alpha teaser on Steam. Here's a trailer.

• Phantasy Star Online 2 -TAILS Collaboration Edition: Is Now Available For Windows 10, Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Minecraft Dungeons- Howling Peaks DLC And Season Pass Are Now Available For Windows 10, Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.

• Twitch details overhauled guidelines for tackling harassment, sexual harassment, and hateful conduct.
• Google to lift post-election political ad ban on Dec. 10. Thanks Hypothermia.

• Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 Release Notes. Thanks ConsoleGenRL.
• Foxit Reader Version 10.1.1.37576. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• Pantone picks two 2021 Colors of the Year: 'Illuminating' yellow, and 'Ultimate Gray.'

• Facebook antitrust case: FTC and several states launch lawsuits. Thanks Acleacius.

• Realms of Genthar - Upcoming EGA inspired Dungeon Crawler coming to a browser near you…
• Steam Play will allow Linux users to play Cyberpunk 2077…

Game Ready For Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077, perhaps the most anticipated game of all time, launches later today. On PC, it features numerous ray-traced effects, and its performance is boosted by 60% or more by NVIDIA DLSS, GeForce RTX’s critically acclaimed AI-powered tech.

With the performance provided by DLSS, you can enable Cyberpunk 2077’s immersive ray-traced effects on any GeForce RTX GPU, as shown in our trailer:

Desperados III gets another free update - the Bounty Mode is now part of the game and lets you choose, which of the five Desperados you want to play in almost every major mission.* Either you make it easier for yourself or spice the mission up a bit - or you try to finish the game with Hector all over the place!
* similar to the Baron's Challenges, this mode will unlock during the second chapter

Also, the newly activated "Level Editing Cheats" allow you to create your own mission setups and share the savegames with all other Desperados III players. Basically, it's a level editor light. By using the cheat codes, players can easily clean a map and then spawn all types of enemies in any location on the map and have fun by placing different objects throughout the level. You want to use 20 dynamite crates and 10 Gatling guns in Flagstone for maximum chaos? You got it! Get creative and share your own mission setups as savegame files with other players!

The journey begins when a farmer and her son El Hijo are attacked by bandits who raze their farm to the ground. The mother decides to leave "El Hijo" at a secluded monastery in order to protect him. However, El Hijo decides that the monastic life is not for him and decides to escape. "El Hijo - A Wild West Tale" is a non-violent stealth game. Violence is instead exchanged with the mischievous, playfulness of a young child. Shadowplay is in the core of the game and "El Hijo" will often have to hide. Without needlessly adding new mechanics, the gameplay is extended naturally, as variations of existing mechanics are gradually introduced and then combined with each other to increase the challenge. These twists on familiar mechanics are often a product of the varied, increasingly dangerous environments that "El Hijo" must traverse to reach his ultimate goal.

Features:

• Survive the Wild West with the cleverness of a young hero
• Explore dark monasteries, deserts and boomtowns in a spaghetti-western world
• Merge with the shadows to hide from the lawless
• Solve playfully tricky environmental puzzles
• Use a playful arsenal of tactical toys to bypass and distract diverse desperadoes
• Inspire other children towards the path to freedom
• Enjoy the gripping storyline of a brave son searching for his mother

Learning Factory is a factory automation game where you have to build an increasingly bigger and complex factory, named KOTOVOD and located on Mars, to make goods for cats. Then you get data about sales analyzing what cats liked or disliked, and use this data with machine learning models to optimize prices and make sure you’re selling what cats really long for.

But just as with while True:learn(), there’s more to this game: backed by actual specialists in the matter and using real-world machine learning models, the game aims also at teaching how big data is collected and processed in machine learning. You will be learning about two of the most relevant technologies of our time while you play a super fun strategy game -- if you want to, that is; because at its true heart it’s above all a quirkily engaging factory automation game with lots of cats in it!

When we chose December 9th, it looked lovely and clear. Then Cyberpunk was postponed and they announced their release on December 10th. As confident as we are in Woodsalt, we can’t possibly compete for media space with that behemoth. We don’t have that Keanu money. We barely have Kevin James money (lol jk, we’re dirt poor).

To everyone who has been waiting and were aware of Woodsalt, I’m sorry if you’re deflated by this and I do totally get it, but I hope you understand that while this is our passion, we also need to keep the lights on. If this game tanks, we’re out of jobs and my choices affect our team as well as myself. Ultimately they’ve been by my side and supported me, and I can’t risk my impatience causing them to lose their future employment.

The other reason is that through testing, there have been a number of “quality of life” changes suggested that we think would really benefit the title. So far the reception has been really, really good and these little changes seem to just add a bit of intuitiveness into the gameplay.

• Space games and titles from Klei Entertainment up to 85% off - GOG.com.

• PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS -- Update 10.1 - Now on the Test Server.

• I PASSED UP THE CYBERPUNK 2077 CODE - Angry Centaur Gaming (nsfw).

• The Gayming Awards 2021 will be handed out on February 24, 2021.

• Virtual Ricochet (Oculus Rift S) - Christ Centered Gamer.

• Cyberpunk 2077 - PC versus PS5 Graphics Comparison Screenshots.

• Good luck finding a PlayStation 5- Walmart and other retailers battle ‘bots’ snatching up hot products. Thanks A51Abductee.
• How One Retailer Is Fighting PS5 Scalpers.
• Players Drive Record Engagement as Xbox Expands Cloud Gaming to More Devices in 2021.
• Xbox Owners Can Play Cyberpunk 2077 Early By Changing Console Region.
• Cyberpunk 2077 Gets 28GB Console Update Ahead of Launch.
• Unto The End Is Now Available For Windows 10, Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S (Xbox Play Anywhere).
• Solitaire 3D Is Now Available For Digital Pre-order And Pre-download On Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Do Not Feed The Monkeys Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Autumn's Journey Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.

• Spam calls grew 18% this year despite the global pandemic. Thanks Slashdot via Ant.
• Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2 Is Getting A Re-Release On Mobile.
• Apple may remove apps that track users without permission in 2021.

• YouTube will remove videos disputing the 2020 presidential election.
• Redbox Launches Free AVOD Service. Thanks Ant.
• Nic Cage To Host Netflix's "Swear Words."
• First Trailer: "Cobra Kai- Season 3."

• GeForce 457.51 Driver Performance Analysis – Using Ampere and Turing.
• What Happened Last Time AMD Beat Intel?
• 'They demolished my house for this?' Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Seagate Designs RISC-V Cores to Power Data Mobility and Trustworthiness. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Mushkin's new Alpha series SSDs pack a huge 8TB with 3.3GB/sec speeds.
• Gaming Headset - For Playstation, Xbox, PC - SCUF H1 - Scuf Gaming.

• Intel, Nvidia probed over tech allegedly used against Uighurs. Thanks A51Abductee.
• Ransomware gangs are getting faster at encrypting networks. That will make them harder to stop.
• Hackers hide web skimmer inside a website's CSS files.

• Four sentenced to prison for planting malware on 20 million Gionee smartphones.

• Call of the Sea review - eerie puzzles in paradise • Eurogamer.net.
• Call of the Sea Review - IGN (video). Thanks Neutronbeam.
• Call of the Sea Review - Call of a Great Puzzler - Wccftech.
• Godfall Review: You Probably Won't Fall In Love - USgamer.

Thanks Neutronbeam.

• Graphics Card: EVGA GeForce RTX 3070 XC3 Black - Modders Inc.
• Keyboard: Higround mechanical gaming keyboard brings sneaker culture to your keycaps - CNET.
• Headset: Audeze Penrose X Review - IGN.
• Laptop: 2020 HP Pavilion 13 11th gen Core i7 Review- It's Actually Pretty Good - NotebookCheck.net Reviews.
• Motherboard: ASRock B550 Steel Legend Motherboard Review - TweakTown.
• PC: Maingear Turbo gaming PC review- A steel and glass minitower of power - CNET.
• SSD: Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD Review - Crucial P5 1TB NVMe SSD Review - Neoseeker.

Preordered Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Breakfast Link

• 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' Replica Coming from Hero Collector.

Stories

• Gangs Are Doing Fast & Furious-Style Heists on Moving Semi-Trucks to Steal PlayStation 5s. Thanks brother19.
• 'Massive' goldfish weighing 9 pounds found in South Carolina lake.
• Mount Everest: China and Nepal agree on height after years of dispute.

Science

• Dogs don't really know what humans are saying. Balderdash.
• Strange object recaptured by Earth is 1966 booster rocket from Surveyor 2.

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• Blue Ant cyberpunk bar.

Media

• Sci-Fi story from Many Worlds interpr. of Quantum Mechanics.
• Unbreakable Ice Cream Safe.
• 10,000 Calorie FLAMIN' HOT CHEETOS Challenge.

After Reach shipped, I became a Halo fan, cheering-on 343i from the sidelines. But I’ve spent the last four months immersing myself back into the Halo universe, and it’s my honor as creative director to help our team ship Halo Infinite in Fall 2021.

Yep, that’s when the game is coming out. And from now until then, every one of us at 343i and our great partner teams will be building, testing, and polishing an experience we hope all of you love.

I joined 343i right as the team was wrestling with feedback from the July campaign demo. This discussion boiled down to one fundamental truth: we needed more time to do things right. That included pushing hard in the Fall, giving the team time to recharge over the Holidays, and then coming back in January to finish the game at a healthy pace.

Because Halo Infinite in the Fall of 2021… is just the beginning of the adventure.

Today, SQUARE ENIX® announced that the first new playable Super Hero, and star of the all-new Marvel’s Avengers Operation: Kate Bishop – Taking AIM, is now available for free download for all game owners. In addition to Kate Bishop, the new playable Super Hero performed by Ashly Burch, and the new chapter in the game’s ongoing and expanding Avengers Initiative story, Marvel’s Avengers Operation: Kate Bishop – Taking AIM also introduces a powerful new villain, the Super-Adaptoid, that will challenge players with a combination of skills and weaponry that mimic the Avengers’ own attacks.

Would you rather live in peace as Mr. Nobody... or go down for all times in a blaze of glory?

Thank you for bringing this up. We’re working on adding a separate warning in the game, aside from the one that exists in the EULA (https://cyberpunk.net/en/user-agreement/). Regarding a more permanent solution, Dev team is currently exploring that and will be implementing it as soon as possible.

During our Ubisoft Forward digital conference, we proudly announced the return of the Prince with Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.

We are excited to put this game in your hands, as we retell the story of the Prince and Farah in a reimagined 11th century Persia. However, 2020 has been a year like no other. Today we wanted to let you know that we are taking additional time to work on the game. With that, the release date for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake has been moved to March 18, 2021. We believe this is the right call to ensure we will deliver a game you will enjoy.

Thank you for your patience and continued support for Prince of Persia and we hope you stay safe and healthy this holiday season.

What else lies in store for Season 4? Here’s what you can expect:

• Season 4 – End of Watch is filled with Leagues, Global Events, Manhunt Targets, and more. Tuesday of each week will bring the beginning of a new event as we move through Season 4.
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• Seasonal Levels – As in Seasons past, 100 levels are available to earn throughout the season. Prior season experience does not count here – as all 100 levels are reset to be earned again. Season XP is earned from all activities and difficulties, so take the Season at your own pace and enjoy!
  • After reaching Season Level 100, every SHD Level increases will also yield a Field Proficiency Cache!
• Season Pass - The optional Season Pass is available for 1000 Premium Credits ($10 or your regional equivalent) in the in-game store, granting additional cosmetics and opportunities for season gear as you progress. The Season Pass also adds a Daily Project for a hard difficulty Main Mission that grants extra XP to help you get those level rewards!
• Seasonal Manhunt Targets – A new target unlocks every 3 weeks, alongside a double XP event, providing an opportunity to progress quicker for the first 15 levels gained that week. Take down all four Lieutenants, Viper, Kestrel, Magnus, and Circe, to unlock the Prime Target, Faye Lau. Upon finishing the Manhunt, you’ll earn the new unique Skill variant, the Achilles Pulse.

In Sands of Aura, a powerful spell has covered Talamhel in a sea of sand. From the depths of the dying world to the tallest spires of crumbled civilizations, those who have endured now live in the waning memories of a once lush, bountiful realm.

Armed with hope for the future and little else, navigate the sands surrounding the ruins, loot challenging dungeons, and head off evil by acquiring powerful weapons and items. You won’t be alone on your journey: Others will help you along your path, if you’ve proven yourself in their eyes.

In Luciform, a family of mythical creatures has been captured by the Red-Eyed Gorilla. To regain their freedom, they pool their energy together to summon Luci – the one individual who can rescue them. Thanks to a unique gift, Luci has the ability to change colors at will!

The game demands quick reflexes and nerves of steel. Timing jumps with the utmost precision is a must; the alternative is ... not pretty. Those who’ve mastered Super Meat Boy and Celeste will find themselves right at home :)

• Left 4 Dead Update.
• Rocket League Patch Notes: December Update. Thanks MP1st.
• Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem -- Hotfix 1.1.0.2.

• So you want a career in computer games tournaments? Thanks A51 Abductee.

• Field of view and you: How adjustable FOV affects gameplay in Destiny 2 on PS5.
• Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 Launch Edition Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Call of the Sea Now Available with Xbox Game Pass.

• Facebook's New Program Pays Black Streamers To Help Them Go Full-Time.
• HDR comes to YouTube live streams.
• Pornhub ends unverified uploads.
• Half of U.S. adults don't know Facebook doesn't do news reporting.
• Release youtube-dl 2020.12.09. Thanks Ant.

• Intel’s 9th generation “Coffee Lake” refresh desktop CPU lineup to reach End of Life status by end of 2021.
• Amazon, Amex to Fund Software Developers in New GitHub Program. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• NVIDIA Boosts Academic AI Research for Business Development. Thanks Hypothermia.
• Japan to fund AI matchmaking to boost birth rate. Thanks A51 Abductee.

• Patch Tuesday, Good Riddance 2020 Edition.
• Oblivious DoH, OPAQUE passwords, Encrypted Client Hello: Cloudflare's protocol proposals to protect privacy.
• US cybersecurity firm FireEye hit by 'state-sponsored' attack.
• Identify and Mitigate the Risk From Vulnerabilities Lurking in Millions of IoT, OT and IT Devices. Thanks Hypothermia.

• Court orders encrypted email biz Tutanota to build a backdoor in user's mailbox, founder says 'this is absurd.'

• A video game garden- the delights of virtual botany. Thanks A51 Abductee…
• Twin Mirror Vinyl Soundtrack preorders…

Seven: Enhanced Edition is an open-world, isometric stealth and action role-playing game, in which you play as Teriel, a master thief sent on a mission that will shake the foundations of the Vetrall Empire. Free roam across the vibrant prison island of Peh and explore the sea depths on board of a submarine in the Drowned Past expansion.

• Launching Today: AMD's Radeon RX 6900 XT - A Whole Lot of Radeon for $1000 - AnandTech.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review vs RTX 3090- RTX 3080- RX 6800 XT! - Digital Foundry. Video.
• First third-party gaming benchmarks for AMD Radeon RX 6900XT - DSOGaming.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Vs. Nvidia RTX 3090: And The Winner Is? Forbes.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review - Guru3D.
• Radeon RX 6900 XT Review: AMD's Most Powerful Gaming GPU Ever - HotHardware.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review - PC Gamer.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT review round-up and where to buy - SlashGear.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review - The Biggest Big Navi - TechPowerUp.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review - TechSpot.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review: Powerful and Pricey - Tom's Hardware.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT Review: Big Navi Battles RTX 3090 For $500 Less - TweakTown.
• AMD Radeon RX 6900XT Graphics Card Review - The Cherry On Top - Wccftech.

Support For

• Radeon™ RX 6900 Series
• Cyberpunk 2077™

Fixed Issues

• Gaming applications can sometimes get stuck running at lower than expected graphics clocks on Radeon RX 6800 series graphics products.
• The HP Reverb G2 VR headset may fail to sync or may have a black screen when run with Radeon RX 6800 series graphics products.
• Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six® Siege may experience corruption in Hybrid Graphics scenarios when using the Vulkan API on an extended display.
• Crossfire™ may experience issues when attempting to change the games resolution to a 16:9 ratio.
• Performance Metrics Overlay and the Performance Tuning tab incorrectly report higher than expected idle clock speeds on Radeon™ RX 5700 series graphics products.

What digital goodies and in-game items are available?
Every copy of the game, regardless of the platform, comes with a set of digital goodies, such as the original score, an artbook, a digital comic “Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice”, a Cyberpunk 2020 sourcebook, and a set of wallpapers. The GOG.COM version of the game also includes additional digital comic “Big City Dreams”, print-quality posters, and more wallpapers and avatars. And for the cool Cyberpunk 2077 in-game items there are: The Witcher-inspired Wolf School Jacket and T-shirt, GOG GALAXY t-shirt, Black Unicorn blade or Shupe the Troll Plushy. All of the above rewards can be claimed just for connecting the game with your GOG account.

“We are alarmed and saddened that a game reviewer had a seizure triggered by Cyberpunk 2077, before it was even launched,” said Louise Cousins, Epilepsy Action’s director of external affairs. “The game features rapidly blinking lights and other animations that could cause seizures in people with photosensitive epilepsy. These features are unsafe and should have been avoided to make the game more accessible. With huge demand and excitement building for its release, it may pose a serious risk to people with photosensitive epilepsy. The developers CD Projekt RED should consider how they can update the game to make it safer. A disclaimer warning at the beginning isn’t enough.”

Starting November 23, World of Warcraft® players around the globe began their journey into the unknown reaches of Azeroth’s afterlife in Shadowlands, the game’s highly anticipated eighth expansion. Today, Blizzard Entertainment announced that as of the first full day of Shadowlands’ launch, more than 3.7 million units had sold through globally, making it the fastest-selling PC game of all time industry-wide.*

The previously announced industry record-holder, Blizzard’s own Diablo® III, sold through more than 3.5 million copies as of its first day of release. Today’s announcement confirms that Shadowlands has surpassed that milestone as well as any other reported sell-through achievement for the same time frame among all PC games historically.

*Sales and/or downloads, based on internal company records and reports from key distributors.

Greetings, Prince of Persia fans!

During our Ubisoft Forward digital conference, we proudly announced Prince’s return from Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake.

We are excited to be able to put this game in your hands again as we retell the story of Prince and Farah in the amazing 11th century Persia. However, 2020 was a year like no other. Today we would like to inform you that we need more time to complete the game. With that, the release date of Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Remake has been moved to March 18, 2021. We believe this is the right decision to ensure we deliver a game you enjoy.

Cyberpunk 2077’s Night City Glistens with DLSS and Ray Tracing
Cyberpunk 2077 is coming too, and is loaded with tech including ray-traced shadows, reflections, diffuse illumination, global illumination, and ambient occlusion, along with NVIDIA DLSS.

Ray tracing enables visually next generation graphics which make Cyberpunk 2077 look and feel more cinematic and immersive. Sunlight shadows, global illumination, sky lighting, emissive surfaces and reflections all look strikingly realistic. And DLSS is a must-have feature to play with ray tracing, boosting frame rates while delivering beautiful, crisp image quality.

With realistic shadows and lighting and the added performance of NVIDIA DLSS no other platform will compare to the Cyberpunk 2077 experience on a GeForce RTX-powered PC.

Some highlight moments include:

• Globally, there were over 100 billion hours of gaming content watched on YouTube
• Live Gaming Streams created more than 10 billion watch time hours on YouTube
• We’ve seen more than 40M active gaming channels on YouTube
• Over 80,000 YouTube Gaming content creators hit 100,000 subscribers, over 1,000 creators hit 5 million subscribers and over 300 reached a whopping 10 million subscribers!

Way of the Witcher is the sixth expansion for GWENT. This time around the theme focuses on the origins of witchers and their creator, one of the most powerful sorcerers on the Continent — Alzur. New additions include 70 cards spanning 60 faction-specific ones and 10 neutrals, as well as powerful fresh abilities and mechanics — among them Adrenaline, which triggers whenever the player has a specific number of cards or less in their hand.

Learn more about Way of the Witcher
In celebration of the expansion’s launch, a variety of time-limited offers featuring Way of the Witcher Premium Kegs and unique ornaments have been made available. The latter include the Laboratory Border, as well as the avatar bearing the likeness of Cosimo — Alzur’s teacher and the sorcerer who helped create the first witchers. Additional details regarding these launch offers are available via the in-game store.

Create your own stories by making challenging decisions along the way. Today three unique titles from the legendary Telltale Games make a comeback on GOG.COM for you to enjoy. Let’s take a look at them:

• Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People is a humorous adventure story about the titular Strong Bad, a cartoon hero created by homestarrunner.com.
• Telltale Texas Hold'em is a tricky poker game where you compete in a fictional Texas Hold'em tournament along with four colorful characters.
• Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures is a witty adventure game based around the characters created by Nick Park and Aardman Animations.

So, take your seat and get ready for some wild adventures - all three above Telltale titles are here to take you on engaging journeys.

An otherworldly tale of self-discovery and mystery set in the 1930s, Call of the Sea is a love letter to the adventure genre. Players will follow Norah, a charming and determined young woman, to a lush island paradise in the uncharted reaches of the South Pacific on the search for her missing husband. On this mysterious island, you’ll unearth the remnants of a lost civilization, investigate clues, and solve a variety of clever puzzles to piece together the fate of Norah’s husband’s expedition. Explore stunning tropical environments on this immersive voyage inspired by the surreal emotion, suspense and surprises of H.P. Lovecraft’s stories. What secrets will you find in this beautiful, enigmatic world?

Publisher Assemble Entertainment and developer Team ADOM announced today rogue-like dungeon crawler Ultimate ADOM - Caverns of Chaos, headed to Steam Early Access on February 11, 2021, for Windows PC, Mac, and Linux. Ultimate ADOM is a traditionally-inspired reimagining of the beloved genre and features endless procedurally generated dungeons, monsters, and crafting options, allowing for ultimate replayability.

Headbängers in Holiday Hell takes the player on a roguelite journey through 15 levels of procedurally generated neighborhoods, malls, parking lots, minibosses, and special levels.

Headbutt elves that just fell in love with an inflatable sex doll or take them down with a nailgun while they are hypnotized by a TV. And what about electrocuting them with a toaster while they hop in pool of water?
Tame a possessed reindeer vomiting ectoplasm, burst naughty little grinches into pieces, and bring the fight to the Big Red One himself while headbanging to some crazy heavy metal riffs by Reign of Fury (UK).
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• Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Dec. 8 Update: Prepare for Season One.
• Horizon Zero Dawn Complete Edition for PC - Patch 1.09 is now available. Thanks DSOGaming.
• Marshawn Lynch arrives in Predator: Hunting Grounds. Poor publicity shy Beast Mode.
• The Sims 4 December 7th, 2020 Patch Notes. Thanks Eurogamer.

• Introducing HITMAN 3 (Gameplay Trailer) [4K].
• Override 2: Super Mech League – Career Mode Overview Trailer.
• Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid - Scorpina.
• UBISOFT+- Play new releases and 100+ games.
• INSERT COIN OFFICIAL ACCOLADES TRAILER.

• Cyberpunk RPG creator Mike Pondsmith describes how immense Cyberpunk 2077 is - GOG.com.

• GoFundMe, now 10, had a historic year of charitable giving.

• CRSED: F.O.A.D. And CRSED: F.O.A.D. Bundles Are Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• Call Of The Sea Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S (And Included In Xbox Game Pass).
• Monster Sanctuary Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S (And Included With Xbox Game Pass).
• Hammerwatch: Heroic Bundle Is Now Available For Xbox One And Xbox Series X|S.
• This Week's Deals With Gold And Spotlight Sale.
• PlayStation.Blog Game of the Year polls are live.

• Samsung Galaxy S21 now looks likely to come without a charger, like the iPhone 12.

• Google Stadia will let all users livestream games directly to YouTube tomorrow. Thanks Neutronbeam.
• HyperX Announces Partner Program Offering Influencers and Streamers a Range of Reward Opportunities.
• Adobe Flash Player gets its last update, as support ends this year.
• Rick Astley getting rickrolled was Reddit's most upvoted post in 2020.

• NextMind ships its real-time brain computer interface Dev Kit for $399.
• A-PI 400 - A printed Amiga case for the Raspberry Pi 400?
• This incredible demake of 'DOOM' as POOM on the Pico-8 is mind blowing!
• WinRAR version 6.00. Thanks DSLReports via Ant.
• Apple introduces AirPods Max, its first over-ear headphones, for $549. Why? Beats me.

• Vulnerability Summary for the Week of November 30, 2020 - CISA.
• Facial Recognition Company Lied to School District About its Racist Tech. Thanks DSLReports.
• Amnesia-33 vulnerabilities impact millions of smart and industrial devices.
• Norway says Russian hacking group APT28 is behind August 2020 Parliament hack.

• Bitcoin exchange founder sentenced to prison for money laundering.

• Call of the Sea PC Review - GameWatcher.
• Chronos: Before the Ashes review - PC Gamer.
• Unto The End review - Rock Paper Shotgun.

• Controller: Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Review - AusGamers.com.
• CPU Cooler: Arctic Freezer 34 eSports Review - OverClocked Inside.
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti FE Review - Overclockers Club.
• Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Gaming At 1080p and 1440p, DXR On and Off – Techgage.
• Graphics Card: Palit GeForce RTX 3070 JetStream OC Review - TechPowerUp.
• Headset: Corsair HS75 XB Wireless review - Rock Paper Shotgun.
• Keypad: Cooler Master ControlPad - Modders Inc.
• Monitor: MSI Optix-MAG274QRF-QD Display Review - AusGamers.com.
• Motherboard: ASUS ROG Crosshair VIII Dark Hero Motherboard Review - TweakTown.
• NAS: Terra Master TD2 Thunderbolt3 Plus - LanOC Reviews.

• Super Space Towers - A seriously cool modern 'Thrust' for PC and Consoles coming early 2021…
• 6 bug-riddled messes that eventually became great games. Thanks Neutronbeam…

Imaginative Round-up
Thanks Ant and Neutronbeam.

Stories

• A Canadian man drives a stranded American family 1,000 miles to Alaska.
• The man who found Forrest Fenn's treasure wanted to remain anonymous. A lawsuit compelled him to go public.

Science

• Let’s Unpack the Pendulum Rocket Fallacy (may require registration or subscription).
• The Skeletons at the Lake (may require registration or subscription).

Media

• How to Harvest Pecans (In Slow Motion) - Smarter Every Day 248. Thanks Hypothermia.
• POV getting pounded by waves at Nazare.

Follow-up

• Chang’e-5 spacecraft smashes into moon after completing mission.
• Samples of asteroid Ryugu arrive in Japan after successful Hayabusa2 capsule landing.