Cyberpunk

The first of many cyberpunk movies, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner embodies all the subgenre has to offer. Despite lukewarm box office performance in 1982, Blade Runner has earned its place as one of the most important films in science fiction cinema.

Tsutomu Nihei’s BLAME! is a manga composed of 65 chapters, also called Logs. The series was a revolutionary step in the cyberpunk manga genre, challenging accepted concepts and forms with its sweeping, illustrated landscapes and inspired use of negative space.

With the upcoming Netflix series announced, there seems to be a renewed discussion of Cowboy Bebop’s cyberpunk credentials. So, after many recommendations by friends and colleagues, I decided to make the decision for myself. I watched the entire 26-episode series.

As civil unrest sweeps the United States in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, hacktivist group Anonymous has emerged from a years-long hiatus. On Thursday, a video addressing the Minneapolis Police Department (MPD) was posted to the Anonymous Facebook page.

Although published in 1991, the world of Pat Cadigan’s Synners and L.A in the late 1980’s still feels relevant today. In fact, it’s more relevant than a lot of cyberpunk, especially among fellow first-wave texts.  Unlike many of the books’ peers, it doesn’t feel archaic after thirty years, perhaps because it’s a hard, purposeful look at nostalgia itself.

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.

Today we’re going to assemble a portable computer that fits into in a lunch box. It’s a good Raspberry Pi beginner project, since it requires no coding or soldering and little tooling of any kind. All you have to do is acquire the parts, plug everything in and secure it within the lunch box.

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.