First up is her Monowire, which can combo into different slashes or charge up for a launching attack. Charged attacks also inflict Short Nerve Circuit, causing follow-up slashes to briefly lock an opponent down. Unity is a ranged handgun attack, but the most interesting ability is Quickhack. Costing 50 percent tension, it allows for deploying debuffs.

You could make Lucy a harder target to detect, pacify the opponent to reduce their Tension Gauge gain, and even restore her health with each hit. While you can stack multiple Quickhacks, each has a RAM cost, so choose wisely.

Lucy debuts in Guilty Gear Strive on August 21st for $6.99 standalone and with Season Pass 4. As for the future, Arc System Works will release Version 2.00 for the fighter next year, adding two new characters and other features.

Lucy’s arrival in the world of Strive is somewhat complicated, as she’s missing some memories but also trying to prevent something terrible from happening. Those who watched Edgerunners will have enough ideas about what she’s referring to, but in the meantime, she’s a top-tier combatant with the Monowire, handgun, and Quickhacks.

Said hacks include Optics Inhibition, which turns Lucy into a glitchy mess, seemingly making it more difficult to predict her attacks. As in Cyberpunk 2077, you can queue up multiple Quickhacks and stack multiple of the same.

Stay tuned for more details on her kit in the coming weeks. Guilty Gear Strive is available for Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, PC, and Nintendo Switch.

It would mark the second collab for Studio Trigger’s popular anime, as Lucy will join the roster of Guilty Gear Strive this Summer as part of Season Pass 4. The content is unknown, but if it’s anything like Honkai: Star Rail’s upcoming Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works collab, we could see Edgerunners characters as new Resonators.

Whether they play a part in the story remains to be seen, so stay tuned. Wuthering Waves is available for PS5, PC, iOS, and Android. Check out our review of the console version here. Version 2.3, “Fiery Arpeggio of Summer Reunion,” will add two new playable five-star Resonators – Zani and Ciaccona – alongside their weapons, a new story quest centred on the Black Alley, and new events.

“We used to dream of becoming a producer of the best RPG games in the world,” said Nowakowski (translated through Firefox). “Over time, we realized that it can only become one very short after the game was released. The previous success cannot define us, because it does not guarantee another. Realizing this dream is a constant job, so we can not lose our vigilance for a moment – otherwise we will stumble over our own legs.”

He continues to talk about wanting to use CD Projekt’s games as the central anchor around which it can grow its franchises. This includes all media, from books to movies. Nowakowski uses the critically-acclaimed anime Cyberpunk: Edgerunners as one of the examples in how it can grow the company.

“Today, our ambition goes even higher,” he explained. “We want to become a global creator of pop culture and entertainment – with games in the center, surrounded by products and events addressed to fans of our productions. It can be anything: film, series, animation, book, etc. ‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners,’ an anime series we created with the Japanese Studio Trigger and which debuted on Netflix over two years ago, is just a foretaste of what we have in the set for years to come.”

What’s important for the company, however, is that it continues to make and release more games that the company likes. Badowski spoke about how, regardless of current market trends, CD Projekt wouldn’t abandon its projects to work on, for example, a survival game. The company wants to continue its work on RPGs, as it has in the past. Just on a larger scale this time around.

“We focus on making games we like,” Badowski said. “We will not throw everything if survival productions suddenly gain popularity. We are not going to radically change course. We wanted to create the best RPG games in the world when we employed over a dozen people, and we want to achieve the same goal today, with over a thousand employees on board.”

CD Projekt RED is currently working on its next major title—The Witcher 4. The RPG will focus on Ciri as its protagonist this time around, and is currently under development for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S. Check out the announcement trailer from back in December.

The decision to have Ciri as the game’s protagonist isn’t just a visual one, however. The new character will play differently from traditional series protagonist Geralt. In a recent episode of the studio’s Answered podcast, senior communications manager Pawel Burza said that Ciri will be a more “liquid” character than Geralt.

“You don’t see Geralt doing these things,” said Burza in reference to one of Ciri’s fancier killing animations. “He’s nimble, but he feels like a block in some sense. She’s like liquid compared to him.”

The Witcher 4 doesn’t yet have a release date, and will quite likely still take some time to come out since its development entered full production as recently as November 2024.

A new tweet provides some details, noting she’s a “girl of unknown origins who appeared out of nowhere” and “bears exceptional hostility towards Gears and plots to destroy every last one of them.” Her reasons are up in the air, but she plays a part in the upcoming Guilty Gear Strive: Dual Rulers anime. Time will tell, so stay tuned.

Unika joins the roster in Spring 2025, according to another tweet (which also confirms Lucy’s addition in Summer 2025). The two new stages are also coming next year, while Dizzy, Venom and Unika will receive six additional color schemes. Interestingly, Lucy won’t get any and doesn’t benefit from the new Premium Color available on pre-purchasing Season Pass 4.

The Season Pass is available to purchase on July 22nd. Stay tuned for more details on Dizzy, its first character, in the coming months. You can also check out our review for Guilty Gear Strive, which recently crossed three million players, here.

Lucyna Kushinada, or Lucy, was the deuteragonist of the show, animated by STUDIO TRIGGER, and utilizes two Monowires to shred enemies apart. She also wields Unity, an Exotic Heavy Pistol. As part of Maine’s netrunner crew, she takes on various Jobs throughout the show but ultimately wants to leave Night City and go to the Moon.

Though Edgerunners appeared in CD Projekt RED’s Cyberpunk 2077 with a post-launch update, this is the anime’s first video game collaboration. It should be interesting to see how Lucy’s story plays out.

Guilty Gear Strive is available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, Xbox One, PS4 and PC. Cyberpunk 2077 is available for the same platforms, though its latest updates and Phantom Liberty are exclusive to current-gen. Check out our review of the former.

Last year, for instance, we got Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a widely praised anime developed by Studio Trigger in collaboration with CD Projekt RED, and it seems the two companies are collaborating on another project- though details on it are next to non-existent right now.

Speaking during a recent investor presentation, when asked about how CD Projekt RED is planning on further expanding the Cyberpunk franchise beyond games, chief commercial officer Michał Nowakowski pointed to the recently-confirmed live action project being made in collaboration with Anonymous Content, before suggesting that other similar collaborations are in the works that can’t be officially announced just yet.

“Yes, we do have plans,” he said (transcription via VGC). “That’s why we have started cooperating with Anonymous Content. We want things to happen.

“Alot is happening, a lot is planned. Trigger was in 2018 but [Edgerunners] started in 2022, so for a number of years we did not speak about this because it wasn’t ready. There are plans we’d rather keep quiet until there is something to speak about, until there is really something to discuss, some concreate announcement.

“When the time comes, we’ll tell you. I know I keep repeating it, but yes, the general direction is this – to go this way, this is strategically important for us.”

Meanwhile, chief creative officer Adam Badowski added that CD Projekt is complying with rules regarding official announcement in place at the partners it’s working with- which, in this case, is Studio Trigger again.

“What’s also important is that Trigger, our partner, has certain rules for announcing projects and we have to be compliant with this,” he said.

What exactly CDPR and Studio Trigger are working on together remains to be seen, but it’s unlikely to be a direct follow-up to Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, with CDPR having suggested as much in the past.

Meanwhile, the company has also confirmed that Cyberpunk 2077 has now sold over 25 million units worldwide, while Phantom Liberty sold over 3 million units in its first week. Cyberpunk 2, currently codenamed Project Orion, has also entered the early stages of production.

It’s no surprise, then, that the company wants to keep doing more of the same. As revealed by CD Projekt’s SVP of business development Michał Nowakowski in a recent quarterly earnings call (via VGC), the company is interesting in pursuing more projects in the transmedia project. That said, as previously confirmed, there are no current plans for a second season of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. 

“We are not confirming any specific plans [for a] second season of Edgerunners or anything super specifically,” Nowakowski said. “[But] we have an appetite to do more in the transmedia [space], so in linear visual animation or live action, and those plans have not changed, so when we are ready you may expect to see more announcements in that regard coming from us.”

What these transmedia projects will turn out to be remains to be seen, but with the success that both The Witcher and Cyberpunk have seen with adaptations, it’s likely that similar future projects will be a big focal point for CD Projekt going forward. The company recently confirmed that it’s also working on its own original new IP (for the first time in CDPR history)- it should be interesting to see whether offshoot transmedia projects will be part of the plan for that property’s expansion… though clearly that’s still way, way off in the future.

It doesn’t look like that’s part of the plans just yet. Speaking in a recent interview with Famitsu (via VGC), CD Projekt RED Japan’s country manager Satoru Honma said that while he personally would like to work on a second season of the anime, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was designed as a standalone story, which means that for now, there are no plans in place for a follow-up.

“I personally would like to continue to work with Japanese studios to produce more anime in the future, partly because we have received very good feedback,” he said. “However, just to be clear, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners was planned as a standalone work, so there’s no such thing as ‘we are actually working on Season 2 in the background.'”

Honma also suggested that if another season of the anime were to be made, it might not necessarily be a continuation of the first, and could end up being a completely separate thing.

“Even if we could make more anime in the future, I don’t know if it would be Season 2 or something completely different,” he said.

Of course, there’s plenty more Cyberpunk content coming up for series fans to look forward to. Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty will launch next year for PC and current-gen consoles, while a sequel will also enter development, with CD Projekt RED’s North American wing taking the reins for the project.

“Each day of this week Night City has been visited by 1 million players, both new and returning,” reads the studio’s statement on Twitter. “We wanted to use this opportunity to thank you for being with us and playing the game.”

The game’s recent popularity likely has to do with a number of updates it has gotten since its release, the recent announcement for an expansion, and most recently of all, the release of the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners anime.

Recently, the number of concurrent players for Cyberpunk 2077 had seen quite a rise since the release of the anime. At the time of publishing, 60,263 players are currently playing Cyberpunk 2077, with a 24-hour peak of 86,130.

Since this only accounts for those playing the Steam version of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt RED’s 1 million player figure likely takes more players into account, including the GOG version of the game, as well as the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S versions.

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