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Abel Tesfaye’s meteoric rise to fame at the beginning of the last decade was revolutionary for R&B, ushering in a wave of darker, moodier sounds. This would come to define mainstream pop music as festival EDM and dubstep began to collapse on itself. While not every album by the Weeknd has lived up to his three legendary mixtapes that put his music on the map, no one can deny his abundance of talent and influence his work has on modern music.

A rep from Elecrow, a Hong Kong-based electronics company, reached out to us regarding their latest Kickstarter for the CrowPi2, an all-in-one solution to STEAM education. So, as always, when someone offers to send us something cool in exchange for a fair and frank review, we asked them to provide us with the deluxe model so that we could do more “extensive” and “unusual” testing.  And, as always, we were told no.

Hey, chummer. You’ve got a lotta guts admitting you don’t know the Cyberpunk 2077 release date. Since you’re obviously new around here, I guess you should know it’s being released on November 19, 2020.

NOOO! Cyberpunk 2077 Delayed!!! CD Projekt Red ripped the band-aid off immediately in their announcement via Twitter on Thursday, June 18, 2020. We can expect the Cyberpunk 2077 Release Date to be November 19, 2020.

Underground Hardware is a 90-minute, cyberpunk podcast from the underbelly of the Megalopolis. Playing underground electronic music from the past, present and future of various genres with that gritty but futuristic cyberpunk vibe — whether that’s Synthwave, Jazz, Ambient, Digital Hardcore, Electro, Breakcore, Techno, Dub, Industrial, Drum N Bass, Vaporwave, Glitch, Instrumental Hip Hop, Breakbeat, etc. — as long as it has that “vibe,” it will go on the playlist.

We’ve dug through Archive.org to bring you early perspective from the creators of Cyberpunk 2077. Up first is the introduction to the Cyberpunk 2077 blog itself from Mateusz Kanik, who at the time was the Cyberpunk 2077 Game Director.

Diving deep into Bell Labs’ history, Jon Gertner’s book, The Idea Factory, explores the origins of some of the twentieth century’s most important inventions and inventors, telling a story of a small group of career engineers who overcame challenges with innovative solutions. Here was the cradle of communication.

We chose Audible as the platform of choice for our article on cyberpunk audiobooks for several reasons — They have the Best Selection with a Free Trial and They’ll Pay us a Referral Fee. So, with that in mind, why not turn on, boot up and jack into a free cyberpunk audiobook and support CyberPunks.com on Amazon’s dime?

Just two months ago, the editors of CYBR Magazine ripped up the plan for their fifth issue and started over. They could see that the viral outbreak we all are currently coming to terms with was going to become an epidemic, and they wanted to investigate and reflect on what the future could look like.

If all this tech-noir, computer-babble sounds interesting to you, the cyberpunk books listed below are what we’d consider the definitive crash course in cyberpunk reading. Please note that the selections do not fully represent the diverse landscape of cyberpunk writers and texts that can be encountered in the genre; with that in mind, CyberPunks.com is proud to tell you about FIVE CYBERPUNK BOOKS YOU’VE GOTTA READ.