Cyberpunk 2077 fans will get ‘hands-on opportunities’ with the Phantom Liberty expansion before it launches
CD Projekt said it’s going to start talking about the expansion in June—and then it started talking about the expansion today.
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CD Projektsaid on Twitter today that it will start talking about the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 expansionPhantom Libertyin June—and then immediately broke that pledge by talking about the expansion in literally the same tweet.
“ICYMI, we’ll start talking about Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty this June!” the studio tweeted. “At @summergamefest: Play Days, we’ll have hands-on sessions for press and content creators. We’re also planning plenty of hands-on opportunities for our community at a later date, so stay tuned!”
Following the troubled launch of Cyberpunk 2077, which was delayed multiple times after its 2012 announcement (at one point leading todeath threatsagainst developers) before being hustled out the door in rough shape at the end of 2020, CD Projekt said in 2021 that it’s going to take a muchmore conservative approachto its marketing efforts with future releases.
Since then, the studio has played its cards close to the vest: We know it has three new Witcher projects in the works includingWitcher 4, aremake of the original, and a spinoff that seems to bestruggling, along with something entirely new currently codenamedHadar.
But the hype machine remains cold, and we have no details on any of them—the dearth of information is such that we found it exciting when CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński simplysaid the words “Witcher 4” out loudduring a recent investors call.
ICYMI, we’ll start talking about Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty this June!At @summergamefest: Play Days, we’ll have hands-on sessions for press and content creators. We’re also planning plenty of hands-on opportunities for our community at a later date, so stay tuned! ☀️🎮April 27, 2023
“Hands-on opportunities for our community” is a little vague, so CD Projektclarified, very slightly, that it means “our community will also get a chance to play the game before the release.” That’s not terribly explicit either—are we talking open beta, or play sessions at PAX, or maybe giving pre-release builds to streamers?—but the studio is playing this one close to the vest for now as well: In an email sent to PC Gamer, a representative said only that “we plan to give a similar hands-on experience to press, content creators, and community.”
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