VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

The Reg speaks to Blood Music about its retrofuturistic love letter to the adventure game golden age

The RPG Greetings, traveller, and welcome back to The Register Plays Games, our monthly gaming column. 2020 (or is it 2077?) is the year of Cyberpunk on the Desktop, with CD Projekt Red due to release its hugely anticipated project in September. That's still some way away, so we are once again forgoing the enhanced capabilities of our rig in favour of something that wouldn't look out of place in Sierra's early '90s back catalogue. It's also the first video game we've heard of to be published by a heavy metal record label. Do we have your attention? Then let us enter the VirtuaVerse....