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New Trailer, Info Revealed During ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ Night City Wire Event; ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Series Announced
Well, is the delay worth it?
After hearing and seeing just what CD Projekt RED are doing with Cyberpunk 2077, it looks like it. Not only did CD Projekt RED release a new trailer, dubbed “The Gig,” a whack of outlets have been given the go-ahead to show off their previews.
The new trailer features new footage showcasing the world, characters, story, and action of Cyberpunk 2077. We get a better look at the dystopian future of Night City, and well as the beginnings of the mercenary career of the game’s protagonist, known only as V.
That’s not all. CD Projekt RED and Netflix have teamed up again, this time with Japanese animation company Studio Trigger to announce Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a standalone, 10-episode story anime set in the same universe as Cyberpunk 2077. It will premiere in 2022.
The premise of the series focuses on a street kid trying to survive in a technology and body modification-obsessed city of the future. Having everything to lose, he chooses to stay alive by becoming an Edgerunner: A mercenary outlaw also known as a cyberpunk.
“We are so excited to finally reveal that we are working on an anime in the Cyberpunk world,” said Cyberpunk 2077 game director and CD Projekt RED head of studio Adam Badowski. “We’ve devoured just about all the cyberpunk fiction there is to watch, read, and play; it’s a genre that leaves so much room for creativity, and has had such a strong influence on us. Cyberpunk: Edgerunners is our love letter to cyberpunk as a whole, and to stories told in animated form.”
Cyberpunk 2077 is scheduled for release on November 19 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Retroware surprised everyone last year with the announcement that they’re working on a throwback beat-’em-up based on the Toxic Crusaders cartoon. Grab your mop and get ready: the side-scrolling beat ’em up game is heading our way later this year.
Toxic Crusaders is now available to preorder on Steam, with the game set for Fall 2024 release. Exact date TBA.
Developer and publisher Retroware has teamed up with Troma Entertainment to bring the characters from the 1991 cartoon “Toxic Crusaders” back, for an all-new, all-action beat ’em up for one to four players.
In the game, “When the evil Dr. Killemoff attacks, only one team of hideously deformed creatures of superhuman size and strength stands between him and his plans for global pollution: the Toxic Crusaders, Earth’s last, greatest and ugliest hope for survival! Battle across seven disgusting levels rendered in vibrant pixel art as you defend Tromaville from hordes of Radiation Rangers, mutated thugs and zombie chickens. The odds might be stacked against you but with awesome powers, a winning personality, and up to four-players on your side, the Smogulan Empire’s days are numbered!
“Choose from seven playable characters, including Toxie, No-Zone, Junkyard, Major Disaster, and Headbanger – plus, for the first time, play as Toxie’s musically “gifted” girlfriend Yvonne, and the mother of all mothers, Mrs. Junko, Toxie’s mom!”
Considering this is set in Tromaville, it’s a safe bet that we’ll see more Troma characters beyond the Crusaders here. Toxic Crusaders will also feature fully voice-acted motion comic cutscenes, featuring voice acting by TeamFourStar, industry veterans, and of course, Troma actors.
Check out the gameplay demo below for a closer look at the Toxic Crusaders in action.
Toxic Crusaders is coming soon to Xbox Series X + S, Playstation 4 + 5, Steam, Nintendo Switch, and the Epic Games Store. But you can wishlist on Steam in the meantime.
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