Bits & Bobs: 21st September 2025

Bits & Bobs gives you bite sized updates from across the web that don't warrant their own full-sized story.

Godot 4.5 Releases With a Big, New Feature Set

Godot has always been a quiet favourite of mine. I've never been any good at video games development - I'm just not creative enough! But I've always kept a close eye on what Godot is doing any what new features the team are bringing to the masses with their amazing open sources game engine.

This week Godot 4.5 landed, with a pretty long and details listed of new features in tow. The top highlight for the team (and me as well) is stencil buffer support - allowing among other things, funky, non-euclidean type geometry as demonstrated in a game like Antechamber.

Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel to Feature Multiplayer?

CD Projeckt Red confirmed back in May that the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 was in active development, and a new job posting has fuelled rumours that the new game might feature some sort of multiplayer functionality.

The job posting, first reported by IGN, states that the Lead Network Engineer and their team will be responsible for "designing and implementing the network architecture and online systems" for Cyberpunk 2.

Paradox Backs Down on Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Paywall Controversy

After strong backlash from fans last month to an announcement that two of the six vampire clans in Bloodlines 2 were to be require a DLC purchase to access, it has now been confirmed by the game's executive producer that all clans will be available at launch.

Rather than a Day 1 DLC, the Premium Edition of the game will now unlock access to two post-launch Story DLC to release next year.