Cyberpunk 2077: how 2020's biggest video game launch turned into a shambles

Cyberpunk 2077, one of the most-anticipated video games of the year was released last week. A dystopian romp around a Blade Runner-inspired city, it had all the ingredients for a perfect storm of hype: it's been nearly a decade in the making; its creator, Warsaw's CD Projekt Red, was behind one of the greatest games of the last decade (The Witcher 3 – think Game of Thrones but grimier); it stars Keanu Reeves, who is as popular with gamers as he is with everybody else. Eight million people had pre-ordered and paid for the game before it came out. But since 10 December, it's all gone horribly wrong. On launch day, the reviews were good – great, even.