A hidden image in some new Cyberpunk 2077 promotional statue images, as well as some new pictures of the 800 dollar statue itself, a hint which gives us some insight into a possible Geralt of Rivia Easter Egg, a podcast featuring developer details, More info on a New character we mentioned in the past & more will be showcased in today’s Cyberpunk 2077 news!

First up check out this new wallpaper tweeted out by CD PROJEKT RED. It shows Arasaka forces sieging a metro station stop, with V and his buddy in the foreground tuning out the white noise. Now I’ve showcased this before, when it was on the cover of PCGamer but now you can have this as a wallpaper. The size of the map has seemed to increase since the intial 2018 E3 trailer, notably in the north and the south. Also check out the Arasaka riot troops that we saw in the 4AM Grimes music video.

Next up we have a new promotional image from Sideshow, which is making high quality statues of Silverhand and V for Cyberpunk 2077. In this image, we see what appears to be an in-game screenshot of the Arasaka Waterfront. This is a location that seems to be dominated by Arasaka in the north of the map near Watson according to the metro map we have seen in the past.

Speaking of the statue this promotional ad is for, check out this new image of Sideshows Male and Female V with the Yaiba Kusanagi. Preorders of this come with a nice little Spiderbot statue, but at 800 dollars for the combo of both male and female v, this is most definitely for the most hardcore collectors.

Next we have a podcast featuring CDPR developers, Miles Tost and Philip Webber about the development of Cyberpunk and how things have changed since shifting to remote work.

First Miles and Philip mention that in shifting from office to home, there was a massive IT delivery service where over night hundreds of cars brought PCs to peoples homes, and that they could start work 2 hours after it was brought home.

The way they work on the game and assets haven’t changed much. They use a VPN to connect to the main data server and can download the stuff they want. If parts of the game get changed, members can check in to that content and others will notice.

Nearly every hour the system directly transforms the development version into the playable version of the game.

Miles Tost mentions that that some changes are really small and mentions an elevator bug where it did not stop where it was supposed to.
The fact that they are isolated means that they can no longer visit media offices with preview builds. They actually carried the game with a specific PC in a code locked briefcase, and the hard drive and the game was also password protected.

Moving on we have some updates to the IMDB page for Cyberpunk 2077, where information is typically fact checked to a certain standard before its posted. Recently some changes were made where it now shows Jacek Rozenek as being rumored to voice geralt in the game. Obviously Dock Cockle voiced Geralt in the English Witcher games and Rozenek was Geralts voice in the polish versions, so maybe there’s the potential for a polish easter egg here, or he’s doing the polish dubbing of a separate character.

Not only this but we have mentioned Doctor Paradox in a prior episode and made note that this was not a character I thought was in the lore. I did some more research and stumbled upon this countdown to the dark future episode where doctor paradox was mentioned as a big conspiracy media character.
In the dark future episode it mentions that “one of the longest running underground screamsheets before the 4th corporate war hit, doctor paradox’s mysteries printed or displayed as a collection of barely coherent rantings, post-modern poetry, and purposefully disturbing images designed to shake up the masses.
By 2020 Doctor Paradox began heavily promoting conspiracy theories, including a government plot to turn everyone into zombies with the help of an insane AI.

We also have some new Cyberpunk Red minis. Now as you know Mike Pondsmith will be in Cyberpunk 2077, and despite many thinking he is Dexter Deshawn this is not the case. With that being said we have a huge hint into what he could play, as RTalsorian revealed a Maximum Mike Cyberpunk red minature.

This is a big big hint of what Pondsmith’s role will be in game, as Rtalsorian and CDPR try to streamline the lore and characters between mediums.
The description of Mike is as follows “One of the old survivors of the NCPD still on the job, Maximum Mike tries to play by the book, enforcing the law and rooting out corruption. But he knows the law has its limits, so he’ll do what he has to to protect the innocent. When facing down the cities worst, his cyber-mastiff, max is always at his side.

This might put a pin in Mike lending his voice to his original character morgan blackhand as well.