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By now, everyone’s heard of BioShock However, not everyone might be aware that System Shock 2, released in 1999, was developed by the same studio – Irrational Games – and heavily influenced the ideas later fleshed out in BioShock.

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.

The webcomic is set in the near future where technology is more advanced than ever before. Security precautions are practically unbreachable. Cars drive themselves, drones circle above monitoring traffic, and more fun technological advances can be found within the story.

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.

Privacy may be dead, but in this series we’ll be examining various small ways to take back control of your life and secure your data, as well as how to generally subvert the organizations trying to control you. First step: anonymous mail.

The normalization of “virtual” body augmentation has been building for many years, in several subtle forms – the digital alteration of photos for magazine spreads, promotional ads, and album covers being an example. Younger generations have been exposed to these edited, idealistic pictures of people they commonly look up to for the majority of their adolescent lives, being visually exposed by movies, TV, magazines, and especially the internet.

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.

Without any warning except for some cryptic posts on their Twitter, Ghostrunner — the OTHER cyberpunk, wall-running, time-bending, slasher video game we’ve all been drooling over — just dropped their demo on Steam (for free!).  But you’d better pick it up quick, as it’s only available until May 13th. For more details, check out the Ghostrunner website.

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?

A Classic Cyberpunk RPG Re-Imagined. Available exclusively on Sony Playstation. Final Fantasy VII Remake is quite possibly the best cyberpunk experience that you’ll have this year, at least until the eventual release of Cyberpunk 2077 in September