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hey everyone I'm lyndell from gamers Nexus dotnet and this is your game news recap for the week we're talking about the witcher cyberpunk 2077 steam account theft overwatch space Sims and more for this week if you're here for Hardware news check the channel for weekly recap on that side of the industry we're starting off with the witcher and its future polish developers CD Projekt RED recently known for their efficient management of an 81 million dollar budget to create witcher 3 this week announced a renewed focus on the white wolf series Gerald's story concluded with the Wild Hunt the third game but CD PR was quoted as saying it wouldn't be fair to fans and to quote forget about this brand CD Projekt RED see Oh Adam catch in skeet old polish site money PL that 2016 would be quote devoted to the witcher thanks to the game's profound sales success anyone excited about the company's cyberpunk 2077 a game that has remained a development purgatory for years now knows the reason why external marketing has stayed silent the CD PR team wants to make moves on its next phase of planning for The Witcher before announcing a release target on cyberpunk 2077 catch in ski noted that an internal release target has been set for cyberpunk but that team won't reveal until the witcher has fully been tapped for its monetization potential interestingly the public focus on monetization and budget management has become increasingly fortifying for CD projekt red's image the company has managed to create multiple best-selling hits in the past few years off and on budget severely limited in comparison to industry colleagues in other news this week's team posted a message encouraging users to opt into the systems double authentication security protocol valve stated that more than 77,000 accounts are hijacked each month in what it describes as organized crime the company seems to think that completely stopping this mass theft is unrealistic instead opting to make it more difficult for account thieves by instituting new security measures one of the measures is a trade hold which freezes traded items items for a period of time before completing the transaction this gives rightful account holders the brief opportunity to reclaim the account and item prior to its removal from account inventory vows blog explains that steam trading is the hub of account theft hijacked accounts will trade away items to other accounts then still more than more until eventually they get sold to a legitimate user this is effectively laundering money but in a much dirtier digital way even though we're talking about video games here and not criminally obtained real world money valve items hold massive value some CSG o knives can sell for a thousand dollars or more making accounts holding such items a big target for hijackers valve states that it will continue to help users and restoring lost items and accounts but also said that quote that doesn't deter the business of hacking accounts it's only going to get worse so what can you do about this opting into the steam guard mobile Authenticator is the first thing to do this also removes the trade hold let's move back to news that specific to game's elite dangerous horizons the new expansion released for a space sim game that revisits the 1980s franchise we already benchmarked the game last year but it's changed massively since initial launch and is worth a series of look by anyone who hasn't yet considered it a by elite dangerous doesn't have as large a scopus star citizen and is already playable providing a worthy space sim into more hands around no man's sky and star citizen alike horizons adds planetside exploration for billions of star systems as buggy driving on created out services and as mechanical complexity to the game's already existing features players who don't much care for planetside exploration may instead be interested in the new dog fighting arena similar to the concept of the arena commander module for star citizen the dog fighting arena provides a single point of conflict for players to engage in high-speed ship-to-ship combat horizons is already out and available for elite dangerous owners a new weapon was added to valve's counter strike global offensive earlier this week the r8 revolver has been the center of controversy as the weapon has found its way into loadouts mostly caught out for effectively eliminating the need to purchase any other weapon its sheer power allows for one shot kills with great efficiency and cost benefit this also makes ego rounds less difficult to overcome for losing teams empowering them in a way that immediately thrust them back into competition the r8 revolver is currently bugged in purchasing it's listed as eight hundred fifty dollars purchased in the games menu but can be had for seven hundred valve will probably nerf the weapon in the next update we've been discussion with blizzards engine team this week about overwatch and its graphics engine hopefully with a ton of new data that we can reveal as the game nears completion until that time we're still waiting for Blizzard to continue its push through beta stages Blizzard recently said that it hopes to add new heroes and maps as free content not DLC which seems like a good fusion with the somewhat unexpected payment model overwatch unlike other current team shooters is a game you pay for one time than begin playing free content distribution sounds good to us closing as office Epic Games Paragon a game that was teased a few weeks ago with effectively zero supporting information of substance following continued teasers of in Game Heroes improving our initial predictions correct that big this week unveiled at Paragon is an mo ba running on the Unreal Engine 4 Paragon is supposedly pushing for high fidelity graphics and more realism than other mo bas but still brandishes the superhero esque vibe of hero types will continue following this game as more is revealed that's all for this week's 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