Daily Briefing, Tuesday 12th January 2021

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Sony drop some PlayStation 5 release date updates

A Sony video presentation shown at CES 2021 on Monday concluded with a sizzle reel detailing release windows for several upcoming PS4 and PS5 titles - the big news is that Square Enix's Project Athia is coming in 2022, while Capcom's Pragmata has been pushed back to 2023.

• As for other PlayStation release dates - Returnal and Kena: Bridge of Spirits are both coming in March, Stray and Ghostwire: Tokyo are pencilled in for October, and Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and Horizon Forbidden West are set to release sometime this year.

Have dataminers discovered Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer modes?

According to DSOGaming, Cyberpunk 2077's executable file references Heists and Deathmatch multiplayer modes, and also indicates that multiplayer may rely on P2P connections rather than dedicated servers - but of course none of this can be confirmed.

• Cyberpunk 2077's multiplayer component is a long way from release. CD Projekt Red said last January that it wouldn't launch until 2022, and that was before the base game's multiple delays and subsequent troubled launch. Watch this space.

Ghost of Tsushima players raise $260K for real-life shrine repairs

Watatsumi Shrine, on the real-life island of Tsushima, launched a crowdfunding campaign late last year to help rebuild a Torii gate that had collapsed during a typhoon - the goal was $47,500, but the campaign concluded with over $260K raised.

• Over 2000 people donated money to the restoration project, including many Ghost of Tsushima fans. Yuichi Hirayama, a priest at the shrine, thanked fans for their generosity - and the collaboration between the game and its namesake island continues to be a fruitful one.

Riot and Bungie launch joint lawsuit against cheat-maker

The Valorant and Destiny 2 makers have joined forces to sue a hack-maker called GatorCheats, arguing that the website's selling of cheats has undermined both games' ecosystems and cost Riot and Bungie "millions of dollars in revenue." Yikes.

• Lawsuits are nothing new in gaming, though thankfully Nintendo are nowhere to be seen for once, but it's less common for two companies to team up like this. The suit was only filed last week so it's a ways off going to court but, with the GatorCheats website already stripped of content, it's already having an impact.

That's everything for today - join us back here tomorrow for another dose of daily news!