Daily Briefing: Friday 12th February

Stolen Cyberpunk 2077 and Witcher 3 data reportedly sold at dark web auction

After leaking the source code to Gwent earlier this week, the hacking group promised that more substantial information would be sold at auction. According to cyber intelligence firm Kela, this looks to have been the case.

- A data bundle containing source code files for CDPR's RedEngine development engine, and titles like The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and its upcoming ray-traced version, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales, and Cyberpunk 2077 was reportedly sold for $7m by hacker group HelloKitty. Yeesh.

Controversial Iraq War shooter Six Days in Fallujah is being resurrected for...some reason

The game was originally announced way back in 2009 for PC, PS3, and Xbox 360 before being cancelled by then-publisher Konami following understandably harsh criticism from media, military veterans, and anti-war groups.

- The game is now back in development at Highwire Games  - a studio hired by Bungie veterans - and will be published by Victura - a publisher formed by the CEO of the game's original developer Atomic Games. Six Days in Fallujah is set to release this year and tell the events of the 2004 Battle of Fallujah through a mixture of gameplay and real-life documentary footage.

Spiritfarer devs announce free DLC roadmap

The team at Thunder Lotus have announced that there will be three updates for the lovely base-building game scattered throughout 2021 - one apiece in the spring, summer, and autumn.

- The content included in each freely available update ranges from new characters and spirit friends, to new types of collectibles and even an all-new island. Thunder Lotus have also promised a "plethora of quality-of-life" tweaks which is always good news.

Kingdom Hearts is (finally) headed to PC, but there's a catch

After however many years, Square Enix have finally decided to bring their venerable Kingdom Hearts franchise to PC...as an Epic Games Store exclusive. It'll cost $230 for the lot.

- There are a *lot* of oddly titled games dropping all at once on March 30th - Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 + 2.5 Remix, Kingdom Hearts HD 2.8 Final Chapter Prologue, Kingdom Hearts 3 (and its DLC), and Kingdom Hearts Melody of Memory. This also represents a new tactic in Epic's drive towards exclusives - could we see more console-only franchises hit PC via their store only?