And it's worth noting that the Cyberpunk 2077 website is simply cyberpunk.
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Cyberpunk 2077 From CD Projekt Red, the studio that made The Witcher 3, comes Cyberpunk 2077.
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First up is Cyberpunk 2077, the game about a dark cyberpunk future where Keanu Reeves never ages.
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In Cyberpunk 2077, you play as V, an urban mercenary and cyberpunk who takes on dangerous jobs for money.
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Screenshot: Cyberpunk 2077 / YouTubeVideo game fans have been anticipating the latest franchise from CD Projekt Red, Cyberpunk 2077, for years.
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In a recent talk, Aveiro-Ojeda presented traditional cyberpunk as a formula: Cyberpunk is technology multiplied by transgression divided by capitalism.
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Unlike scads of other cyberpunk games, including the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077, there's no room for hip countercultural rebellion in System Shock.
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But, you should also check out the pen and paper RPG Cyberpunk 2020 , the game CD Projekt Red based Cyberpunk 2027 on.
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What's more, Cyberpunk 2077 isn't even an entirely original property, it's based on a pen-and-paper game from 1990 called Cyberpunk 2020.
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It has all the superficial hallmarks of a cyberpunk classic like Blade Runner, but it would have been far better cyberpunk without them.
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Cyberpunk 2077 received an awesome-looking new trailer full of action, cools cars, a vibrant world, and of course some heavy cyberpunk aesthetic.
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Luckily for you, Cyberpunk 2077 is building on a decades-long tradition of cyberpunk tropes, which started all the way back with William Gibson's Neuromancer.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the long running tabletop game Cyberpunk, and one version of the game has a sketchy history when it comes to gender.
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Related: Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future Porter Robinson on Making His Anime Short Film 'Shelter' How to Build a Safe Space for Earnest, Feminine Cyberpunk
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From the foundational to the obscure, here's some of the best cyberpunk things you can brush up on and distract yourself with until Cyberpunk 2077 comes out.
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Cyberpunk 21980 looms on the horizon, and its E240 2018 trailer and closed-doors gameplay demos for press ignited a conversation across video games about what cyberpunk is.
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Polish studio CD Projekt RED, the makers of The Witcher series, recently registered the word "cyberpunk" as a trademark, ahead of the release of their forthcoming Cyberpunk 2077 game.
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If put into the context of indigenous futurism, then we can think through a similar formula to discuss indigenous cyberpunk: cyberpunk equals "traditions" multiplied by transgression Again, divided by colonialism.
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If Pondsmith's name sounds vaguely familiar it's because he's, creator of Cyberpunk 2020 (and it's predecessor and sequel), which is the direct inspiration for CD Projekt Red's upcoming Cyberpunk 2077.
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Cyberpunk is a genre of dealing with the material consequences of technology, and if colonialism underwrites this system, then a properly critical cyberpunk game can mount a response to that colonialism.
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In 1992, during the handover decade of both cyberpunk and the fall of the Berlin Wall, academic Nicola Nixon had some negative thoughts about cyberpunk and what it prepared us for.
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Cyberpunk 2077 ships in April 2020 and will be available on Xbox One, Playstation 4 and Windows PC. -- Correction: A previous version of the story misidentified the original publisher of Cyberpunk 2020.
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Cyberpunk 2077 We already know quite a bit about Cyberpunk 2077, but the new trailer gives us even more of a glimpse into the neon-infused future that players will soon inhabit.
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Many people hold out that there is some kind of originary, "pure" cyberpunk ideal that is more than the neon lights and robot arms that populate a lot of our cyberpunk games.
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The Essential Cyberpunk Reading ListIt's now been over three decades since cyberpunk first exploded, and in that time we've seen…Read more ReadAs Gamespot points out, some members of the internet commentariat fear that CD Projekt Red might become some sort of variation of the evil corporations that often serve as the antagonist in cyberpunk fiction.
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Night City doesn't necessarily look all that distinctive; the neon lights and rain-slicked streets of cyberpunk are everywhere today, and I didn't see much that made Cyberpunk 2077's setting stand out.
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Check out the latest trailer for "Cyberpunk 2077" right here:
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And, perhaps above all, cyberpunk pivots on unfathomable corporate power.
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At E3 2019, there are two versions of Cyberpunk 2077.
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The Cyberpunk team says things are more complex than that.
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This is a cyberpunk world of corporate greed and violence.
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Soon we'll find out how cyberpunk the design really is.
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Soret: Cyberpunk, we already living in it I think today.
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Altered Carbon Netflix's Altered Carbon is an epic cyberpunk television.
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The 2012 movie starring Karl Urban is a cyberpunk masterpiece.
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Pack it up, nerds, cyberpunk is no longer cool now.
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Check out the latest trailer for "Cyberpunk 2077" right here:
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"Cyberpunk" as an actual literary genre is too diverse and complex to be pinned down in a few bullet points, even before it's been splintered into post-cyberpunk and biopunk and splatterpunk and whatnot.
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At first glance, you might call that world a cyberpunk dystopia.
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Individual pieces of cyberpunk-related fiction certainly evoke our political reality.
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Otherwise, you'll be wandering through a cyberpunk world of confusion. Seriously.
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Pre-order Cyberpunk 2077 for a breathtaking price from CD Keys.
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Together, Blade Runner and 2049 represent the best of cyberpunk film.
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The corporate villains of 90s cyberpunk were fresh in our imaginations.
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The inside of the safe house looked like a cyberpunk hideout.
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Or are you just a lover of cyberpunk and space operas?
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You know how cyberpunk, as a genre, is about dark dystopias?
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First and foremost is that this video is cyberpunk as fuck.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is set to be released on April 16th, 2020.
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Shifting from third-person to first-person and from high fantasy to... well... cyberpunk, Cyberpunk 2077 still looks like it's brimming with some of the same underlying ideas that made the most recent Witcher so special.
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It is a cyberpunk epic, and a cautionary tale about economic inequality.
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But seriously, does this scenario sound like a cyberpunk thriller, or what?
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Deus Ex: Mankind Divided lets you play out your own cyberpunk fantasy.
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Blade Runner's cyberpunk world is making its inevitable leap into virtual reality.
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It's feminist, empowers sex workers, and is more than a little cyberpunk.
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Cyberpunk has come a long way since its origins in the 1980s.
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I mean, certainly I would never have described "Artemi"s as cyberpunk.
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So I want to put back the future and anticipation in cyberpunk.
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So what, then is the relationship between aesthetics and politics in cyberpunk?
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One of the ones I loved the most was called Cyberpunk 2020.
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"If someone names their game: 'John Smith: Adventures Set in a Cyberpunk Dystopian Society' or '20 Short Video Games Set in Cyberpunk Worlds,' none of them should be treated as an infringement of our rights," the company writes.
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The Last Night is a cinematic platformer that may have almost no platforming, with a cyberpunk plot and setting that the developers insist is not cyberpunk, based on a view of the world that seems less reactionary than naive.
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" Bruce Sterling on cyberpunk: "People were very kind to us cyberpunks, critically speaking.
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What that means is Reeves' deal with Cyberpunk 2077 is far from over.
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What would the filmmakers do with Ghost in the Shell's distinctive cyberpunk aesthetic?
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But for everyone else, it's just a gorgeous vision of a cyberpunk future.
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The slick-looking cyberpunk shooter Ruiner finally has a release date: September 26th.
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Trump isn't a manifestation of our cyberpunk future, he's a backlash against it.
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That feels like our modern equivalent to the urban-used future of cyberpunk.
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In these moments Cyberpunk 2077 plays like a straight-up first-person shooter.
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Netflix has unveiled the first look at its upcoming cyberpunk show Altered Carbon.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is an open-world, action-adventure story set in Night City.
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It's an epic, breathtaking novel that's as much cyberpunk as it is fantasy.
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Want to be a cyberpunk ninja assassin with gigantic boobs and flawless skin?
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There's a reason why holographic geisha are a common motif in cyberpunk films.
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Game Informer even named it a Top 10 Cyberpunk Game of All-Time.
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And there we have a conversation about the shape of this cyberpunk world.
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A mechanized extra thumb would fit right into our oncoming bizarro cyberpunk future.
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Dodge Cyber Monday with moments from his cyberpunk world in the posts below.
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Starbreeze's underrated 2012 shooter Syndicate is a perfect encapsulation of the cyberpunk ethos.
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MS: Oh. They had a lot of things around the house. Toys. Cyberpunk.
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Cyberpunk 2077 and Final Fantasy VII are two of 2020's biggest releases.
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"Cyberpunk 2077" is a single-player game, but not all missions are solo.
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You can watch the entire 50-minute gameplay video for "Cyberpunk 2077" below.
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The report is academic research, not a Sears catalog for the cyberpunk dystopia.
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"We didn't actually want to make a cyberpunk game, and for a long time we wanted to not use the word cyberpunk, to show that this wasn't a thing where you had to expect rainy streets and neon signs," says Tomkowicz.
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This is a cyberpunk-ass-cyberpunk game, but it carries much of the weight of the excellent Night In The Woods, in its examination of rural places crushed by future 'progress' that only left lots of folks out in the dark.
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Probably 20-30 of our releases so far have sci-fi or cyberpunk themes.
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Gangs of colorful cyberpunk characters roam across the relics and rubble of crumbling cityscapes.
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The notion of a hacker-induced nuclear meltdown is the stuff of cyberpunk nightmares.
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Adi: How long can we keep calling back to the '80s cyberpunk future, though?
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This particular bar was part of an aging retrofuturist theme chain called Cyberpunk 03XX.
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Yes, Trump himself is a businessman — but not the kind that cyberpunk fiction immortalized.
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You can channel a prairie girl, a sister wife, a cyberpunk, a kooky intellectual.
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We know it's based on Cyberpunk 2020, and pen and paper role-playing game.
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But it's hard not to get excited by the sheer ambition of Cyberpunk 2077.
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The dashing mechanic, for instance, was deemed more sci-fi than cyberpunk by some.
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The game is also arguably the best cyberpunk offering in tabletop games right now.
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Cyberpunk fiction and R&B haven't really shared the same room, which is weird.
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Like a lot of attendees, I left E3 itching to dive headfirst into cyberpunk.
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Here's what Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller and Ripper also have in common: They're ridiculous.
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Like other cyberpunk dystopias, 20493 heavily relies on Asian aesthetics to indicate the future.
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Is Cyberpunk 2077 just slamming first-person gaming mechanics into a comfortable production design?
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Like any good cyberpunk future, all life feeds into the profit of the megacorps.
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Cyberpunk fiction is often alluring for sprawling kingdoms dense with grime, clutter and crime.
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He's reportedly in the game, "Cyberpunk 2077," and was there to promote it for Xbox.
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The mood board in the studio reveals that Outlier's color palette tends toward cyberpunk noir.
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And that's part of the CD Projekt Red team's core design philosophy for Cyberpunk 2077.
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It starts out as a gritty cyberpunk story before becoming a more typical fantasy adventure.
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It's been a long time since we've heard from CD Projekt Red about Cyberpunk 2077.
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"We aren't making a cyberpunk game," says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner.
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Images uploaded to Reddit's r/cyberpunk as canon often mimic the aesthetic of these films.
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By the late, great Bob Hoskins in the 1993 cyberpunk fantasy thriller Super Mario Bros.
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The darker potential of technology is a staple of William Gibson's and Bruce Sterling's cyberpunk.
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So embrace your inner '90s cyberpunk hacker and grab a pair of fingerless gloves instead.
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Take Android: Netrunner, the cyberpunk card game that's probably my own personal favorite to teach.
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Architects are surely aware of the fictional cyberpunk cityscapes of Blade Runner and The Incal.
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In these early cyberpunk works, the aesthetics aren't just wallpaper, they're often doing the work.
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And best of all, it stars a guy with the absolutely most cyberpunk name ever.
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Alongside Cyberpunk, Google had announced a variety of other games that'll be coming to Stadia.
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CD Projekt RED has announced a several month delay for its ambitious RPG, Cyberpunk 2077.
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Update February 24th, 10:30AM ET: Added details on Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox Series X.
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I want to like Altered Carbon, Netflix's cyberpunk epic which just premiered its second season.
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"Cyberpunk 2077" is a non-linear role-playing game played from a first-person perspective.
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The (seriously) long-awaited role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 has a lot going for it.
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Will the game be as weird as its source material, the tabletop series Cyberpunk 2020?
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Of course, it's totally framed in psychedelic neon cyberpunk visuals, but that's cool in itself.
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Rani Baker's essay on how cyberpunk tabletop games figure trans life is emblematic of how cyberpunk treats basically everything that is beyond its original purview: it allows for opportunities, but often fails in explaining or framing them in ways that are truly forward thinking.
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It's drenched in rain, neon, and blood, sort of like a cyberpunk take on Hotline Miami.
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With Samurai Jack, Tartakovsky mixes in one part anime, one part myth, and one part cyberpunk.
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A two-dimensional, cyberpunk open-world game with four districts in four distinct styles to explore.
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But Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, involving subversive video games and giant mecha.
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I mean without 'Neuromancer' and the cyberpunk generation of people, would we even have the internet?
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The company has some other fun things for aspiring cyberpunk car owners to play with — literally.
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We spoke with emerging artists about the way screens, science, and cyberpunk culture inform their work.
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It also looks like something straight out of Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk Ghost in the Shell manga.
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But Cyberpunk 2077 also goes a step further, and lets you craft your own simple backstory.
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But that aesthetic, paradoxically, is why Altered Carbon fails, as both good television and good cyberpunk.
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In the actual Cyberpunk demo, though, CD Projekt Red seems to downplay weirdness at every turn.
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It's darker and more real than any high-budget cyberpunk series Netflix can throw at us.
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His kludgy, cyberpunk rig was fascinating; two young techies walked up to ask him about it.
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I asked MxP1nk whether they really believed net neutrality has a home in a cyberpunk universe.
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The series is based on Altered Carbon, a cyberpunk detective novel from author Richard K. Morgan.
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Adi Robertson: My first question is how you bring something new to the genre of cyberpunk.
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That's precisely the reason it'd be socially important for Cyberpunk 2077 to give players more options.
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It's unrelenting cyberpunk techno trash, all prickly grayscale ambience and blunt electronics, stabbed into cyborgian flesh.
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It's also preceded by a foreword by legendary cyberpunk author, and Womack's longtime friend, William Gibson.
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It's playing on plenty of cyberpunk tropes, but it doesn't feel obligatory or paint-by-numbers.
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These garments are often black, throwbacks to the cyberpunk look that dominated 1999's The Matrix.
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Grimes&apos performance, which featured intense CGI visuals and special effects, had a "Cyberpunk 2077" theme.
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Cyberpunk 2077 will launch on April 16th on the PS4, Xbox One, PC, and Google Stadia.
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Million Mile Road Trip by Rudy Rucker While William Gibson and Bruce Sterling are the names most associated with cyberpunk, one name that might not be as well-known is Rudy Rucker, a mathematician and writer who is considered one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre.
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And I wonder if our dreams of splitting the atom of politics and aesthetics, of figuring out which cyberpunk works get it right, is cover for not having to reconcile that liberation and oppression are two sides of the same coin in that originary moment of cyberpunk.
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With Litzsinger at the helm, the game was updated and decoupled from its original setting—one borrowed, perhaps notably, from the Cyberpunk 2020 role-playing game, the same setting that is about to spawn CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077—moving instead into the pre-existing Android universe.
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When someone asks me 'Hey, what's the deal with that cyberpunk card game you always talk about?
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They're dressing all cyberpunk, they're smoking a little pot, they're taking mushrooms, and they're watching Family Guy.
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So it didn't make me think of '80s cyberpunk tropes as much as current world plus holograms.
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There's almost too much to say about the bustling, vibrant, and jam-packed world of Cyberpunk 2077.
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In the demo, we got a glimpse of just how complex Cyberpunk 2077's character customization is.
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Ridley Scott's 1982 cyberpunk noir has inspired many films, but it's never received a sequel until now.
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Aside from its cyberpunk bonafides, hexwaxwing said that the cute factor is a big, and intentional, draw.
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But if it does, The Last Night could be the best cyberpunk comfort food of the year.
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Same goes for games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Death Stranding that are likely years away from release.
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In it, the protagonist wanders through an alternate cyberpunk universe controlled by a repressive, 1984-like government.
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TL;DR: You can now pre-order the revolutionary Cyberpunk 2077 for just £34.99 from CD Keys.
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Netflix's adaptation of Richard K. Morgan's cyberpunk novel Altered Carbon is getting an eight-episode second season.
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Keanu Reeves was also there to show off more of Cyberpunk 2077, which he also appears on.
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"We have one of the building blocks of a cyberpunk dystopia materializing before our eyes," wrote blookies.
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Her film career has included acting in 21 films and one video game — Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller.
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The look, feel, and utility of this cyberpunk smoking machine make it quite unique and quite usable.
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This lends the story a political authenticity that's unusual in the field of cyberpunk, and very welcome.
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And one thing… did you say the part about how we're already living in a cyberpunk world?
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Cyberpunk 2077 sounds like an amazing video game but we have no idea when it's coming out.
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There are a ton of amazing cyberpunk books, movies, and video games ready for your hungry eyes.
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When I was an editor at Time, we ended up doing an offbeat cover on cyberpunk culture.
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Set in the distant future, Altered Carbon uses a simple detective story to explore classic cyberpunk themes.
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"Autonomous is to biotech and AI what Neuromancer was to the Internet," says cyberpunk legend Neal Stephenson.
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The development studio behind the acclaimed "Witcher" series announced "Cyberpunk 2077" all the way back in 2012.
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"Cyberpunk 2077" has an inspection system that lets you learn about objects, lore, and other useful information.
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Can it stand out in a field that's already full of cyberpunk titles and open-world RPGs?
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CD Projekt Red's role-playing game Cyberpunk 2077 is being delayed from April 16th to September 17th.
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Based on that, I have transposed everything into something much darker, in the pure tradition of cyberpunk.
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The blend—the machinery of the gameplay systems and the cultural weight of the setting—is cyberpunk.
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Austin, Rob, and Joel dig into the game's aesthetics, politics, characters and scenarios of this cyberpunk RPG.
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But that's not much concern to Jill, star of the new cyberpunk game VA-11 HALL-A.
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Flash's Hacking for Freedom, for example, channels clear iconography from The Matrix, a film widely cited as a "cyberpunk triumph," while other hardvapour releases—like Chinese Hackers' Visions and Bannik Krew's Жорсткий щойно випав сніг—embrace grainy security footage and imagery of digital surveillance, another common cyberpunk theme.
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Altered Carbon, Netflix's ambitious new cyberpunk drama, concludes its first season with a series of massive plot revelations.
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He's even become a meme after announcing that he'd star in a new roleplaying video game, Cyberpunk 2077.
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His cyberpunk illustrations create a chaotic, densely urban world populated by cyborgs and outlaws outfitted with advanced prosthetics.
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In short, Cyberpunk 2077 came to kick ass, take names, and look super fucking dope in the process.
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It's a hard-boiled cyberpunk noir show about a private detective who has a revolver for a head.
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My guess is it's just next spring like The Last of Us, which means it now joins Cyberpunk.
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The creators describe the setting as a "two-dimensional cyberpunk open world," with four unique districts to explore.
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Netflix has adapted the cyberpunk novel, and will begin airing its 10-episode season on February 2nd, 2018.
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For my money, the best cyberpunk fiction doesn't just go hard against corporate bullshit and miserable labor politics.
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In this world, Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, using subversive video games and giant mecha.
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Netflix's new science fiction TV series Altered Carbon ticks all the boxes for a modern-day cyberpunk series.
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Fire up old school Microsoft Word and finally write that cyberpunk fan-fic that you've been putting off.
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The trailer was revealed during Good Morning America, and shows some new details about the upcoming cyberpunk thriller.
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"People in the ads of Cyberpunk 2077 are horribly objectified, but that's very much intentionally so," says Tost.
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I'd call it cyberpunk, but we're way past that now; this is whatever comes next, or after that.
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It will be less wild, less cyberpunk, and less likely to involve the transmission of highly illegal content.
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You worked on the original Netrunner, were you a big cyberpunk fan in the 1980s or early 90s?
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This ought to sound familiar, because the whole thing is a deeply self-conscious pastiche of cyberpunk tropes.
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With these two lines, Aveiro-Ojeda is building a cyberpunk world slightly out of step with our own.
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Gallant also created visuals seen on the computer screens in VFX wizard Douglas Trumbull's proto-cyberpunk film Brainstorm.
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This week on the Technotopia podcast I talked to Eliot Peper, the author of the cyberpunk novel Cumulus.
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Glittering cities are replaced with disgusting bathrooms, cyberpunk fashion swapped out for battered corpses and fucked-up cybernetics.
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At times, it feels like Stephenson is doing a Douglas Adams version of cyberpunk and that's absolutely delightful.
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Syndicate and Syndicate Wars These underappreciated PC classics are tactical isometric strategy games set in a cyberpunk Detroit.
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Wired magazine appeared in 1993, and cyberpunk became a buzzword as a genre of fiction and an aesthetic.
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The film is a dark cyberpunk masterpiece, the best short film of this type I've seen in years.
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A focus on these tendencies, I think, is what helps a coherent cluster of ideas called "cyberpunk" emerge.
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"Cyber" is the futuristic-sounding prefix early netizens used in terms like cyberspace, cyberpunk, cyberculture, and yes, cybersex.
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It's a cyberpunk police anime about an interdimensional invasion that blends action, puzzle-solving, platforming, and detective work.
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Cyberpunk 2077, which was scheduled for release on April 16, it said, is being delayed to September 17.
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I know people who had to reschedule vacation days they planned to use to marathon through Cyberpunk 2077.
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Musk unveiled the truck at a cyberpunk-inspired event with many, many lasers and even a surprise ATV.
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Most quests in "Cyberpunk 2077" come in the form of jobs, which can be acquired in different ways.
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We have important news regarding Cyberpunk 2077's release date we'd like to share with you today. pic.twitter.
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Games like Beneath a Steel Sky had already used the format to tell Blade Runner-inspired cyberpunk stories.
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The dystopian cyberpunk game will be available on the Nintendo Switch eShop and Steam starting on Oct. 3.
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Their aesthetic alone is so damn cyberpunk; they offer great visuals before you even see what's inside them.
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There was this period where everything I saw was life imitating art, because I was reading cyberpunk fiction.
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Unrelated to Invasion of the Body Snatchers, the Hideo Kojima cyberpunk game Snatcher, or several other similarly named works.
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Even after having seen so much, there seem to be countless possibilities in the thriving world of Cyberpunk 2077.
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And now, Chung is days away from the release of his latest game, the cyberpunk hacking adventure, Quadrilateral Cowboy.
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It's based on the tabletop title Cyberpunk 2020 and made by CD Projekt Red, known for the Witcher series.
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The bracelet is like an anti-smartwatch, both in its cyberpunk aesthetic and in its purpose of defeating technology.
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It's a nod to the game's history, as it's based on a pen-and-paper RPG called Cyberpunk 2020.
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Keanu Reeves, an actor, hyped up "Cyberpunk 2077", a hotly anticipated title in which he plays a big role.
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This isn't a problem unique to Cyberpunk 2077; it's something that a lot of big-budget games struggle with.
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That's the difference between exploitation and commentary — and Cyberpunk 2077 hasn't shown that it's deep enough for the latter.
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The game has bold ideas about sexuality, a vision for a cyberpunk future inclusive of hope for marginalized people.
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Based on a licensed pen-and-paper RPG, Cyberpunk will be a sprawling game set in a mega-city.
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Mindstorms tend toward a black and red color palette, with builds that lean heavily on cyberpunk sci-fi imagery.
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I wouldn't classify myself as a big cyberpunk fan, but I liked the world and I liked the idea.
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Cyberpunk gained popularity, in part, thanks to Blade Runner and William Gibson's Neuromancer, which was heavily inspired by Japan.
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Shadowrun: Dragonfall, meanwhile, helped us work through the ongoing conversation about the past and future of the cyberpunk genre.
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It is, though, undeniably cyberpunk, which is a genre or a mode of writing that is all about interlockings.
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Finally we can live all our cyberpunk fantasies of having five rows of keys in our rollup Bluetooth keyboards.
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If you're going to spend time with trash, consider tracking down a copy of Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller instead.
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On a whim, I typed in "cyberpunk" in the Audible search bar to see if there's something I've missed.
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When Westworld first premiered, it was a bit of a novelty: a sort of proto-cyberpunk robot uprising film.
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As a big nerd for the cyberpunk genre, I'm probably more okay with that future than I should be.
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Over 20 years on, it's taken for granted that Tokyo has the look of a cyberpunk or anime film.
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The video ends like any good cyberpunk fairy tale—with a robot shedding a tear after it's escaped captivity.
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Obsidian Entertainment's The Outer Worlds is just around the corner, and Cyberpunk 2077 is likely coming sometime after that.
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And here's the thing: Corporations in the cyberpunk world of The Sprawl are too big to face head on.
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Musk had warned investors that Tesla's pickup would be "really futuristic, like cyberpunk Blade Runner," and he wasn't kidding.
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It's been over a year since CD Projekt Red last unveiled a look at the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077.
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One of the most anticipated titles of 2020, Cyberpunk 2077, is coming to Nvidia's cloud gaming service this year.
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What I'm most curious about is whether Cyberpunk 2077 will have the same forward compatible feature on PlayStation 5.
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Violence isn't the only mature aspect of Cyberpunk 2077; it also features lots of swearing and full-frontal nudity.
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Ripper was a single-player cyberpunk-noir thriller set in a grim New York City of the year 2040.
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Another coat, long and indefinably gray-green, was seductively sinister—the most cyberpunk object I'd seen in Gibson's home.
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That said, I enjoy thrillers, science fiction, graphic novels, dystopian fiction, cyberpunk, sports books (especially anything by Roger Angell).
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But it's a distinctly pre-cyberpunk piece of high-concept science fiction, extrapolating a disastrous future out of contemporary anxieties.
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He cites William Gibson's short story "Burning Chrome," which served as a test case for Gibson's classic cyberpunk novel Neuromancer.
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It's a clever enough cyberpunk idea, but it takes Reeves' essential blankness at face value, and minimizes his formidable physicality.
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And Telsa's design for a pickup, which the CEO referred to as the "Cyberpunk Truck," will be unveiled this summer.
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Take, for instance, his unique vision of "cyberpunk," which eschews the familiar chrome and neon in favor of something else.
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The result is the very trippy but unfinished cyberpunk video, Mario in Hyperspace, which Vos Kakis created in After Effects.
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Among them were Anthem, Cyberpunk 2077, Ooblets, Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Battlefield V, and many, many more.
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Likely candidates to appear onstage include Gears of War 5, Halo Infinite, Cyberpunk 2077, and maybe even a new Fable.
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In January 2017 a mysterious 212channer named Tsuki started a cult that promised to take members to a cyberpunk paradise.
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One or more unidentified hackers obtained files relating to — potentially among other things — the upcoming, largely mysterious game, Cyberpunk 2077.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, though there's no word on a release date yet.
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Afterall, cyberpunk is a genre of science fiction that goes back decades with hundreds of works falling under its umbrella.
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However, Cyberpunk 2077, and other graphically intensive games will arrive as we near the verge of a new console generation.
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Cyberpunk 2077, the next project from the developers behind The Witcher 3, is due out in the next few years.
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For us, it would have to be Keanu Reeves on stage talking about the up and coming game Cyberpunk 2077.
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Meanwhile the culture also began to shift away from its roots in the hippie movement and the cyberpunk-rave thing.
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Yes, I mean Cyberpunk 2077, the upcoming RPG by CD Projekt Red, but I also mean the genre more broadly.
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"William Gibson wrote 'Neuromancer' and basically invented cyberpunk, and here were these schmos telling him what to write," Longo says.
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I was personally looking forward to something a bit more William Gibson-y, to live up to the cyberpunk pregame.
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Released in the late 1980s, both animated films featured dystopian cyberpunk themes filtered through the Japanese lens of manga comics.
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The notion of gender fluidity in Cyberpunk 2077 has been kicked around as long as the game's been in development.
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What we need is cyberpunk that takes us by the throat and shows us just how bad things can get.
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For Americans, there's few places as seemingly dope like the cyberpunk, idealized version of Japan that rests in the brain.
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Ghost In The Shell extrapolated cyberpunk to the absolute limit, indicting our traditional ideas about the body and the self.
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All you need to do is sign up to Quidco and visit the GAME store to pre-order Cyberpunk 2077.
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For decades, the idea of plugging a brain into a computer has been a mainstay of cyberpunk fiction, not biotechnology.
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For his latest cyberpunk magic trick, he took apart an old broken iPhone and turned it into a flash drive.
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While not without controversy, CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 22020 is one of the more interesting releases of the upcoming year.
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His Tesla passion project is every bit "the futuristic-like cyberpunk, Blade Runner pickup truck" Musk said it would be.
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That little detail about how they serve a mechanical function rather than just being cool is the heart of cyberpunk.
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His work blends science fiction, especially the cyberpunk genre, with literary absurdism and the psychedelic-sexual shamanism of Alejandro Jodorowsky.
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The cyberpunk genre is capable of allowing the creation of amazing worlds, and they shouldn't be limited to just one way to live inside it, we should get to see what the common citizen in a corrupt cyberpunk dystopia is going through, to better understand the effects of what we're very close to live.
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Austin was a pretty happening place in the cyberpunk science fiction scene at that time, in the late '70s, early '80s.
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Popov was also a wanted man involved in international intrigue, like a character in one of the cyberpunk novels he loved.
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Looking ahead: Shanghai, Model Y, 'Cyberpunk Truck' Tesla just raised more than $2 billion in a sale of stock and debt.
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As part of a far larger cyberpunk tradition, it draws on old ideas and tries to forge a new path forward.
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The approach exposes the cracks in the aging premises that informed the first film, and possibly even the entire cyberpunk genre.
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He was once renowned for his cyberpunk style, his rebellious streak, and a fiery temper that was often compared to Jobs's.
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From the looks of the cyberpunk-tinged trailer, the movie adaptation of Bradbury's classic 1953 novel will feature some modern updates.
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FFVII was a strange, bombastic cyberpunk epic, while FFVIII was a melodramatic story about young love set against a futuristic war.
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Richard K. Morgan is best known for Altered Carbon, a noir-cyberpunk novel that is being adapted by Netflix in February.
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The imagery of a polygonal Bowie gyrating in a loincloth in a dark cyberpunk club helps to elevate the music, too.
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We have searched high and low for the best pre-order deals for Cyberpunk 2077, and there is a clear winner.
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The effects range from 60s-era psychedelic imagery, to visuals that are influenced by cyberpunk, magic mushroom trips, kaleidoscopes, and glitch.
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It is the goofiest, most over-the-top collage of cyberpunk clichés I've seen in forever, and I really love it.
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Russia likes cyberpunk nuclear western Trigun, and for Japan, it's a tie between Ghost in the Shell and Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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The team behind a "reimagined" version of classic cyberpunk shooter System Shock has launched a $900,000 crowdfunding campaign for the project.
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I wanted the introspection feel of GitS fused with the more upbeat Bubblegum Crisis cyberpunk, with tons of color and neon.
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The company's first title is called Zenith, and it's an anime-inspired fantasy title that plays with cyberpunk themes as well.
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The easiest comparison that comes to mind when reading Malka Older's INFOMOCRACY (Tor/Tom Doherty, $24.99) is to its cyberpunk forebears.
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It's a dusky, muted, vaguely cyberpunk affair, and introduces a fragile humanity that's often obscured by the album's search for unorthodoxy.
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While its visual touchstones are classic cyberpunk—neon lights and chunky, 80s-inspired technology—its subject matter is close at hand.
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Related Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future [Exclusive] 5 Artists Reimagine '1984' for 2017 Reality: Where Does It Go From Here?
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The image is instantly captivating: This is a scene from our cyberpunk future, or at least a scene from The Matrix.
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TL;DR: Pre-order the breathtaking Cyberpunk 2077 for just £34.99 from GAME via Quidco, and save £20773 on list price.
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Cyberpunk 2077 generated quite a lot of hype at E3 this year, with a little help from a certain Keanu Reeves.
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That means if you sign-up to Quidco, you can pick up Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox or Playstation for just £34.99.
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In the case of Cyberpunk 2077, it appears that it is once again the development team that will pay the price.
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Of course, we always do some hiring—for future projects, but in terms of the Cyberpunk 2077 team, we are good.
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The latest highly anticipated addition to the roster will be "Cyberpunk 2077" by CD Projekt, scheduled for release on Sept. 20183.
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For the record, I think it's likely, simply due to the sheer proximity of Cyberpunk 2077's release to both machines.
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Ghost in the Shell is a cyberpunk series centered on a counter-cyberterrorist organization that spans manga, anime, games, and films.
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After dark, the bars and bridges light up with Vegas-like abandon, turning the city from seaside haven to cyberpunk fantasy.
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Musk gave a standing ovation to his girlfriend, the pop star Grimes, who had just given a "Cyberpunk 2077"-themed performance.
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Well I can't talk about the details, but it's gonna be like a really futuristic-like cyberpunk, "Blade Runner" pickup truck.
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Well I can't talk about the details, but it's gonna be like a really futuristic like cyberpunk, "Blade Runner" pickup truck.
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Joe Jonas founded DNCE, a pop group known for their hit "Cake By The Ocean" as much as having a cyberpunk bassist.
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After all, when vaping took off as a fad it was a bizarre bit of cyberpunk kitsch, and vapers were publicly ostracized.
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Games Discussed: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Man of Medan (The Dark Pictures Anthology), Daemon X Machina, Cyberpunk 2077, Devil May Cry 5.
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Meanwhile, its take on cyberpunk calls to mind classics like Akira or Neuromancer, but with a distinct, much lighter tone and feel.
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Ghost in the Shell is a sprawling, beloved cyberpunk series starring one of the most iconic female anime characters of all time.
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Because I genuinely don't think it's dated like so many of its platform peers, or other cyberpunk-ish adventures of its era.
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VR and all of its cyberpunk beginnings also have direct throughlines to The Matrix and other popular forms of speculative dystopian fiction.
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Cyberpunk 2077 has been in the works since at least 2013, but we got our first real look at it last year.
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While Netflix recently released its dark, gritty cyberpunk show Altered Carbon, Lost in Space could be aimed more at a family audience.
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Though its influences are clear, in the beginning the team at Reikon was reticent about using the word "cyberpunk" to describe Ruiner.
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Witcher 3 developer CD Projekt Red premiered new footage from its upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 RPG at Microsoft's E3 press conference on Sunday.
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"Net neutrality, in itself, is not a cyberpunk issue, let me say that first," MxP1nk wrote me via a Reddit private message.
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The futuristic soundtrack is fantastic, and the miniature levels really nail the angular, cyberpunk look first introduced by Human Revolution in 2011.
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After he enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University, in 2006, he began releasing patchwork cyberpunk instrumentals under the name Diamond Black Hearted Boy.
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Capitalism became more flashy, but for many people in the countries where cyberpunk originated, the factories that once signaled economic growth disappeared.
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It's the midpoint between early cyberpunk fiction that actively engages politically, and the aesthetic veneer of 2016's Ghost in the Shell.
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This year, Keanu Reeves greeted a roaring crowd from the Xbox stage after revealing his casting in CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.
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And just the other day, scrolling down, one of my old-time favorites popped up: Konami's cyberpunk point-and-clicker (kinda), Snatcher.
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No, but that's only because The Matrix also has dancing set to Rob Zombie in a cool goth-meets-'90s-cyberpunk club.
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"Alita," the cyberpunk CGI spectacle, earned $27 million when it debuted in 3,790 locations and $210.8 million over the four-day frame.
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A multiplayer component for Cyberpunk 2077 was also originally supposed to launch after the game's April debut, among other free add-ons.
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Prep for 2020 PC releases like Halo: Infinite and Cyberpunk 2077 with a monitor that can keep up with rapid-fire gameplay.
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Nearly four decades ago, William Gibson published a short story called Burning Chrome in Omni magazine, and with it, he birthed cyberpunk.
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Cyberpunk 2077 is set to release on April 16th, and will be available on PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Google Stadia.
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I agree, computer takeover is a recurrent theme in cyberpunk cinematographic and literary works, and this is what I chose for Transhumanism.
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There are sweet, silly explorations, like Super Pools N' Ghosts, and games that feel weighty, like the cyberpunk adventure, Norco: Faraway Lights.
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A landmark in both Japanese animation and the cyberpunk genre, the original Ghost in the Shell remains a stunning, sterling philosophical action film.
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But the biggest threat right now is not that its mission statement suddenly changes to "Be Evil," as popular cyberpunk plots might suggest.
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Systemspace, an internet religion led by Tsuki, promises some 24858,48583 followers, or "migrants," that they'll be transported to a cyberpunk elysium after death.
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Not only does it have a complicated story, but it showcases a huge, futuristic world that evokes the cyberpunk aesthetics of Blade Runner.
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It adheres to a model that is refreshingly fluid, and something I always want to see in cyberpunk fiction (and often, I'm disappointed).
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Gone was the cyberpunk aggression of the flexi and in its place an icier synth soundscape that pushed the band further toward greatness.
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Altered Carbon commits fully to the sci-fi cyberpunk genre, but is there a nod to our favorite fantasy zeitgeist, Game of Thrones?
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Keanu Reeves in Cyberpunk 2077; Lil Jon's "Let's Go" playing throughout Gears 5; a new adorable droid in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
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The closer Cyberpunk gets to its release date next April, the more likely it seems that this will be the game's final form.
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The Deus Ex series, which is set in a similar cyberpunk world, tried to explore oppression with an ill-advised "mechanical apartheid" storyline.
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A voice actor by trade (though currently working in marketing), he produces sprawling, ambitious YouTube narratives including the 50-part "Cyberpunk ASMR" series.
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The EP is a concept album which, along with the complementary visuals, draws heavily from science fiction, especially the neo-noir cyberpunk strain.
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A couple of Hot Topic manager types played guitar, a cyberpunk pianist held court in a custom wraparound hula hoop of a keyboard.
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Now, Fantasy Flight Games is bringing something like the "legacy" model to the fan-favorite and award winning cyberpunk card game, Android: Netrunner.
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After defining cyberpunk and coining cyberspace, Gibson retreated from ventures further afuture in the 00s, penning a trilogy of closer-to-now works.
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Every faceless extra we see in cyberpunk movies has a life, same with video game NPCs, and we wanted to tell their stories.
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We're also getting eerily close to the cyberpunk works we admire so much in real life, but not many have realized that yet.
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The fembot Swift saunters down a dark alley full of Cyberpunk cliches while she soft-raps about romantically torturing the men she dates.
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It's a cyberpunk puzzler that is the most distinctly human thing I've played all year, as much Frances Ha as it is Neuromancer.
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Musk had previously hinted at a summer 2019 reveal for the so-called "Cyberpunk Truck" back in June, but that obviously didn't happen.
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The movie, which depicts a cyberpunk future, made waves in the late 1990s just as the internet was taking hold in popular culture.
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But as he got closer to revealing the vehicle, he kept teasing that it would have a "futuristic-like cyberpunk, Blade Runner" design.
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Google says another 120 games are scheduled to hit Stadia this year, including some big upcoming blockbusters like "DOOM Eternal" and "Cyberpunk 2077."
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"Cyberpunk 2077" definitely falls into this category — to the point that Musk has even hinted at putting Tesla&aposs new Cybertruck in it.
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But Observer, a cyberpunk meditation on the frailty of perception and the tenuous bonds that tie people together, made me question my own eyes.
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Microsoft has revealed a new trailer for Cyberpunk 13, which has also been given a release date and a big-name star: Keanu Reeves.
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It's been three years since CD Projekt Red released The Witcher 3, and it's been nearly as long since Cyberpunk 43 was first announced.
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Image: PexelsThe '90s cyberpunk thriller Hackers is used too often to illustrate the fearful future of cyber security, but it's popular for a reason.
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Congratulations. If you're here, it's because you watched at least one episode of Netflix's new cyberpunk epic, Altered Carbon, and have approximately 30 questions.
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It's being made by Polish studio Bloober Team, which was behind painting-themed horror game Layers of Fear and grimy cyberpunk detective game Observer.
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Where traditional cyberpunk stories often depict a bleak future in which massive corporations hold the power, Morgan puts a human face on wealth inequality.
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There's a fair amount of neon, as per usual with cyberpunk stories, but it's too early to tell what the overall story is here.
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Like the Richard K. Morgan cyberpunk novel on which it's based, the first run of shows will focus on solving a murder most foul.
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A tiny indie team is making the dystopia beautiful "We aren't making a cyberpunk game," says Magdalena Tomkowicz, story designer on the upcoming Ruiner.
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So many of my favorite cyberpunk experiences are about immersion, and I don't just mean in the "first person climbing and healing animations" sense.
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It's official: Managing Editor Danielle Riendeau and Editor-in-Chief Austin Walker have until the release of Cyberpunk 2077 to finish The Witcher 3.
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And considering the demands of games like Battlefield and CyberPunk 2077, having one of the newest and best graphics cards is a definite must.
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The picture trips all of our "horrible cyberpunk future" alarms, carefully put in place by everything from The Matrix to Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent.
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Our excitement about their characters is matched only by that of Deakins' take on Blade Runner's cocktail of noir roots and cyberpunk genre-busting.
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There's also already VR backpack on the market by MSI, but it costs more than $2,000 and looks way less cyberpunk than Ishii's version.
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Now the same director has returned with another cyberpunk short that is not only an original story, but even better than the previous film.
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It was named in tribute to a Romanian hacker, Marcel-Lehel Lazar, who had called himself Guccifer, a cyberpunk portmanteau of Gucci and Lucifer.
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Feted by Vogue, the Guardian, The Fader, and Noisey, Sawayama first burst onto the scene as a tangerine-haired, cyberpunk-influenced musician slash model.
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Maybe we'll see new forms of digital street art and graffiti popping up, as imagined by cyberpunk authors like William Gibson and Charles Stross.
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It's an atypical hacking game that encompasses all things cute and fun (rather than dark and gloomy) about computers—less cyberpunk and more cybertwee.
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The Cyberpunk genre started with the written word and crept out of the imagination of writers such as William S. Burroughs and JG Ballard.
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There's a ton of great cyberpunk video games—GOG is running a sale on all of them right now—and you should play them.
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The "lesson" of those original cyberpunk works is that you might get away with the money, but if you do, then you're going solo.
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" Her haunting thoughts from nearly 30 years ago should give us pause when we debate about whether a cyberpunk video game "gets it right.
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But that would've been a different game, not this particularly cyberpunk tale about the Transtar corporation (which run Talos I) and the Yu family.
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Mute is that Scott set up, with its pretty-fied atmosphere, heavy in the not-so-distant cyberpunk shit, but aimless to the bone.
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This year, Keanu Reeves greeted a roaring crowd from the Xbox stage after revealing his casting in CD Projekt Red's upcoming release Cyberpunk 2077.
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What he discovered through his viewfinder was a city transformed by light, reminiscent of cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.
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There are even, very rarely, plot beats, side characters, and even whole missions, that utilize the game's cyberpunk setting as more than just wallpaper.
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"To some degree, yes—to be honest," Kiciński said when asked if Cyberpunk 2077's development team would have to put in crunch hours.
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On top of that, we had news and trailers for big games like Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, League of Legends, and more.
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Dame Helen Mirren was in attendance, channeling Kojima's cyberpunk-meets-postpunk aesthetic in a long black blazer with a Radiohead patch on the breast.
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This year, Keanu Reeves greeted a roaring crowd from the Xbox stage after revealing his casting in CD Projekt Red's coming release, Cyberpunk 2077.
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Related: Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future Anime Meets European Art Nouveau in Blossoming Female Portraits 'Halo' Meets 'Akira' in an Incredible CGI Short Film
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But it's also an ideal place to start for those unfamiliar with Nihei's works, which also include another loosely connected cyberpunk manga series called Biomega.
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An enemy seen in the E3 "Cyberpunk 2077" demo These customizations will not only affect your character's abilities, but itself also presents choices about identity.
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It's Death Note by way of Final Destination, a film more focused on cyberpunk-esque visuals and crunchy synth than on any kind of substance.
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In 2014, Soret wrote that The Last Night "takes place in a cyberpunk world where modern feminism won instead of egalitarianism," appending the Gamergate hashtag.
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Since then, Supergiant released the similar cyberpunk game Transistor, and it later switched gears with a bizarre and fascinating fantasy take on basketball called Pyre.
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After years of waiting, The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has finally released another look at its highly anticipated upcoming sci-fi RPG Cyberpunk 23.
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Microsoft showed off 52 games onstage, including Halo Infinite, Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, and titles from third parties like Fallout 76 and Cyberpunk 2077.
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That's because like NBN and Haas-Bioroid, Jinteki is a fictional megacorp that rules the cyberpunk hellscape of the hit "living card game" Android: Netrunner.
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The Magic Leap One consists of a pair of oversized cyberpunk-y goggles, a puck-shaped external computer called a Lightpack, and a handheld controller.
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The novel is a cyberpunk mystery that delves into issues about wealth and power, and it's the perfect source material for a prestige television series.
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Pop art and acid-washed colors cyber-psychedelia in the works of Californian artist Nick Giasullo, who creates furious post-cyberpunk characters wearing futuristic uniforms.
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Stephenson's book was a graduation ceremony for the cyberpunk subgenre, funny and wild, and it assumed that the future would mostly take place inside computers.
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It's very "cyberpunk" to jack into a virtual room with a total stranger and be shown a grainy video that will scar you for life.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company is working on a "cyberpunk"-looking truck during E3 last week, hinting at an end-of-summer release.
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Keanu Reeves' badassery has now seeped into the cyber world -- 'cause he's playing a character in the upcoming 'Cyberpunk' installment that looks EXACTLY like him.
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"Cyberpunk is more than neon lights, rainy streets and cybernetics, or the Punk part of it is supposed to be anyway," said Reddit user M0rtis86.
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But to truly live in the dystopian world where cyberpunk thrives, in fiction at least, wouldn't the big, web-throttling corporations have to win first?
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Lopatin is wearing a Hellraiser T-shirt and a baseball hat with a simple geometric insignia that looks like something out of a cyberpunk anime.
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The series, as part of the then-burgeoning cyberpunk genre, explores globalization, the body, and consciousness in the postmodern world through the lens of technology.
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I'm wondering if you're also enjoying this particular flavor of cyberpunk, and if you've run into Black Lives Matter references, how they made you feel.
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It's all a short, sweet, cyberpunk fever dream, and I'm very glad that frequent Waypoint contributor Cameron Kunzelman passed me the link late this afternoon.
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As you've no doubt heard from a million others, CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077 demo, so far unreleased to the public, was an E3 highlight.
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It doesn't take long to find threads with fans speculating about what CD Projekt RED might do, given Cyberpunk itself doesn't provide an explicit roadmap.
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CD Projekt RED's Cyberpunk 2077, almost certainly one of the biggest releases of the next few years, will be DRM free on platforms like GOG.
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Another great cyberpunk role playing game is Paranoia, where players work as troubleshooters in service of a controlling AI in a terrifying and controlled future.
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Related: Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future Anime Meets European Art Nouveau in Blossoming Female Portraits 'Halo' Meets 'Akira' in an Incredible CGI Short Film
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If there's an "original" cyberpunk moment, it is probably the publication of William Gibson's Nebula, Hugo, and Philip K. Dick Award winning Neuromancer in 1984.
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The street finds its own uses for things; people picked up the tools that those early cyberpunk works put out them and ran with them.
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It's a little hard to believe, but almost two decades have passed since the influential cyberpunk video game Deus Ex first hit shelves in 2000.
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The world we built isn't as cyberpunk as making your phone the ultimate source of your data truth, but it is a lot more practical.
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Now, Cybertruck fans can get a taste of that cyberpunk truck future without dropping $40,000 or more — that is, until the new toys sell out.
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Blair Witch was released last week by the Polish studio Bloober Team, best known for cyberpunk detective game Observer and the Layers of Fear series.
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Cyberpunk cities with skyboxes that stretch out to infinity, little neon lights in tall buildings that I still, somehow, never get bored of looking at.
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So, no "rival" company could put out a game six months after CDPR's called Cyberpunk 2078, looking to cash in on the previous game's public visibility.
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Cyberpunk 2077, made by video game company CD Projekt Red, features V — a character the player customizes — who has a malware-infected biochip in their head.
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Moisty Mire experienced a drought and turned into a desert, while Tilted Towers was completely destroyed and rebuilt as a cyberpunk metropolis after the volcano erupted.
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It's not hard to imagine Fortnite turning into a place where the ads are unobtrusive yet ubiquitous, like in those hallucinogenic cyberpunk movies of the past.
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William Gibson's Neuromancer is one of the best-known works of cyberpunk, and has helped influence countless films, from The Matrix to Ghost in the Shell.
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Searching for new ideas, they turned to Gibson, whose early short stories and 1984 novel Neuromancer had become defining texts for the movement known as cyberpunk.
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In the latest trailer for CD Projekt Red's open-world epic Cyberpunk 2077 revealed that none other than Keanu Reeves will be starring in the game.
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It's seemingly post-cyberpunk the way that people who don't know much about feminism identify as "post-feminist," advancing past an unrecognizable strawman of the genre.
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The author of the classic cyberpunk novel, Snow Crash, and, most recently, Seveneves, Stephenson has long been a voyager in lands unexplored by the common mind.
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There hadn't been any indication in the run-up to the show that a closer look at Cyberpunk would be coming, and that's still the case.
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The words were more visible once the colors were inverted, and revealed that there will be free DLC in Cyberpunk 1977, and no DRM or microtransactions.
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As much as I enjoy cyberpunk works that are grim, depressing calls to alarm, I also want the genre to be strong enough to contain hope.
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As Gavia Baker-Whitelaw at The Daily Dot and Ryan Britt at Inverse have pointed out, though, modern cyberpunk is basically a kind of retro-futurism.
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Cyberpunk 2077's dystopia doesn't seem quite so on-the-nose, but it also seems to be playing with heavy themes without truly delving into them.
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But science fiction writers, particularly the cyberpunk authors who inspired "Ghost in the Shell," have been dramatizing the risks of versions of this idea for decades.
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System Shock In 22, Warren Spector changed PC gaming by combining two genres—violent shooters and menu-intensive role-playing games—into a cyberpunk horror story.
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For Deus Ex's speculative fiction, that's the jumping off point for a cyberpunk dystopia where the enhancements that "Augs" possess threaten the rest of the population.
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Many responders to MxP1nk's post highlighted that, by nature of its very name, the cyberpunk community ought to fight against any plans to abolish net neutrality.
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The idea was unsurprisingly embraced by the cyberpunk counterculture and psychedelics advocates who imagined a virtual shared world would let people show each other their dreams.
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The meld of industrial, rave, and punk is weirdly fun this time around—a very pleasantly surprising progression from the band's history of lo-fi cyberpunk.
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In the comic world he's also known for interactive cyberpunk epic Nawlz, which depicts characters who have unlimited ability to record and edit their perceived realities.
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That looks like the tabletop games of Shadowrun and Cyberpunk, both of which ask players to work through embodying vulnerable, augmented characters in a bleak world.
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Schupp, meanwhile, is playing Valencia Estevez, an Ecuadorian hacker belonging to the Anarchs faction, a loose collective who embody the 'punk' half of the cyberpunk equation.
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For anyone daring to create their own 3D rendered cyberpunk environments, the artist has made a step-by-step tutorial that can be purchased on Gumroad.
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She has a cool cyberpunk/witchy vibe going, with black and purple garb and the ability to throw out orbs that heal allies and drain enemies.
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If Cyberpunk 2077 isn't out for another couple months, or even another year, there are a dozen modern magnum opi to chew on in the meantime.
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Unlike the company's last game, "The Witcher 3," which featured a very flat map, "Cyberpunk 2077" is very vertical with buildings that just keep going up.
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I read a joke the other day that went something like: your cyberpunk dystopia name is just your actual name because the corporations have already won.
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His previous work includes motion comics with a cyberpunk aesthetic and numerous tributes to greats like Batman and Hellboy, whose influence on X-Story is clear.
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The director of Ghost in the Shell, the new live-action sci-fi action film based on the 1995 anime cyberpunk classic, has a methodical cadence.
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Related: African Masks Warp in These Hand-Drawn GIFs African Electronics Takes a Spiritual Approach to Individual Power The Wearable, Projection-Mapped Mask Is a Cyberpunk Masterpiece
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It's like capture the flag mashed up with one massive worldwide game of tug of war, with a bit of Matrix-y cyberpunk dressing slathered on top.
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Netflix announced late Tuesday that it's getting in on Bebop's jazzy, cyberpunk street cred with its own live-action adaptation, and we really hope it won't suck.
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Kwame: I really enjoyed the aesthetic, but so much of that is knowing that the creators really love the Ghost in the Shell aesthetic and cyberpunk overall.
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Neuromancer is a famously gritty cyberpunk thriller, and Miller's direction with Deadpool shows that he's certainly capable of delivering the sort of stylistic take Gibson's world deserves.
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Related Murakami Meets Moebius in These Abstract Illustrations Gritty Cyberpunk Illustrations From a Dystopian City of the Future Intricate Ink Illustrations Imagine New Terrains and Visual Languages
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The densely populated and polluted cityscapes appear to be influenced by cyberpunk and Japanese manga, as well as science fiction movies like Blade Runner and The Matrix.
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But only recently did it come to light that the makers of The Witcher franchise had trademarked the term "Cyberpunk" and this week some fans cried foul.
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For instance, if it wanted to make a sequel called Cyberpunk 2078 it would need the legal authority to prevent someone from snatching up that name first.
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It also claims that some of the trademarks were actually acquired from R. Talsorian Games, the publisher of the original game that Cyberpunk 2077 is based on.
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But while I was reading Foundryside, I couldn't help but imagine that the book was essentially a cyberpunk novel, trapped in the clothes of an epic fantasy.
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Related: Cyberpunk CGI Opera Features an AI Having a Mental Breakdown 'Medieval Reactions' Turns Ancient Art into Hilarious Memes Artists Imagine Life After a Total Internet Collapse
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Related Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future 'Blade Runner' Meets 'Bullit' in Trailer for Indie Sci-Fi Epic Artists Control Each Other's Body Parts with Their Minds
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As the city transformed into a cyberpunk nightmare, neither the Chinese nor British government wanted to take responsibility for this runaway hotbed of brothels and drug dens.
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It turns out that Reeves is in the highly anticipated game Cyberpunk 23, which is being made by the same developer who gave us The Witcher series.
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Part of Human Revolution's charm was how decidedly unmodern it was, a janky but earnest cyberpunk game that worshiped at Deus Ex's feet—perhaps to a fault.
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The bar is a safely familiar place to touch the future's bleeding edge, and the perfect symbol of the cyberpunk genre's "low life and high tech" ethos.
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Related: When Pixel Art, Cyberpunk and Horror Collide [Premiere] Generative Electronic Music Inspires a Series of Digital Matrices Glitch Video Game Nightmares Can Be Beautiful [Music Video]
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Polish video games producer CD Projekt will delay the release of its new strategy after it postponed the launch of its flagship game Cyberpunk 2077 until Sept.
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An asymmetrical card game about cyberpunk hackers trying to stop megacorporations from advancing their terrible agendas, Android: Netrunner is like a home I can't go back to.
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We got looks at Destiny 2: Shadowkeep, Cyberpunk 2077, Gears 5, and, of course, Hideo Kojima's confounding Death Stranding, which somehow is even weirder than you think.
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You might even imagine a specific type of goth: rivethead, romantic, cyberpunk, Lolita, or, the goth no Gen X-er ever would have predicted, the pastel goth.
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That's an enticing promise if you're the type of player who likes to be immersed in a fictional world, but it also makes Cyberpunk 2077 especially complex.
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The relentless pursuit of profit has killed the planet and brought us fully into the cyberpunk dystopia that captured the imaginations of so many in the '80s.
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Gibson was far from the first sci-fi writer to explore computers and their consequences; a movement, soon to be known as cyberpunk, was already under way.
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It's a fascinating, paranoid cyberpunk world of conspiracy theories and cyborgs, built with a broader sense of world-building and player agency than even most games today.
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Once she makes her way inside, you get to relive the moment Musk brought his cyberpunk, Blade Runner-inspired vehicle onto the stage for the first time.
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There is a provisional, even whiny crankiness to the cyberpunk impulse on display here, crying out against the standardization of economic globalization typical of our connected era.
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Think UHD Blu Rays of Blue Planet with its lush green forest and sapphire seas, or Blade Runner 2049 with its neon cyberpunk lights and gray, gritty streets.
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Smooth and convincing animations, abstract graphics that invited me to project my own impressions onto the action, and murderous replicants lured me into Flashback's cyberpunk-Jason Bourne storyline.
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The cyberpunk adaptation film from James Cameron and Robert Rodriguez left off on a massive cliffhanger, begging the question: was this all just set-up for a sequel?
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Here, the channel tracks the evolution of cyberpunk from an anti-establishment sci-fi genre to an aesthetic co-opted by many of the institutions it once criticized.
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Bisexual lighting shows up in the futuristic genre cyberpunk, which imagines an era in which high technology and low technology combine and cities are neon-bathed, landmarkless Gothams.
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This is the upgrading system, and it's once again an example of how Cyberpunk 2077 takes a standard and functional trope in games — and actually gives it weight.
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CD Projekt Red, maker of the amazing The Witcher 3, made a surprise appearance at Microsoft's E3 keynote to show off its upcoming role-playing game, Cyberpunk 23.
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In the fictional cyberpunk card game Netrunner, there is Ice, and there is AI. Ice protects computer servers from attack, while the AI's job is to break in.
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The cyberpunk action film inspired by Yukito Kishiro's manga Gunnm, could have been a game-changer in the way women — and specifically teenage girls — are portrayed on screen.
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Hard-Boiled Cyberpunk Noir While all the sci-fi and sex might be the reason viewers will come to Carbon, the murder mystery is the reason they'll stay.
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Its cynical take on human behavior puts a cyberpunk face on the idle excesses of the super wealthy, a theme that feels more relevant than ever in 2017.
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The game itself is a very cinematic 2D adventure game with some very strong Blade Runner influences, in which players navigate a cyberpunk city with strict class divisions.
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This scene takes place in the early hours of Observer, a new cyberpunk horror game from Polish developer Bloober Team SA—the indie developers behind Layers of Fear.
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From there, a bunch of heavy hitters: Cyberpunk 2077, DOOM Eternal, Empire of Sin, Vampire Bloodlines 2, Wolfenstein: Youngblood, Ghost Recon: Breakpoint, Borderlands 3, and so much more.
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GUIYANG, China (Reuters) - Giant robots and futuristic cyberpunk castles rise out of lush mountain slopes on the outskirts of Guiyang, the capital of one of China's poorest provinces.
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A film about robots killing hedonistic vacationers, Westworld is certainly not a nuanced film, but it does appear to prefigure some elements prominently seen in cyberpunk science fiction.
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" As co-founder Gabriella Hileman explains in an interview with Broadly, "There was a need for those things in the cyberpunk genre and the masculine-dominated tech world.
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Some may not like the pop idol or the dark turn she's taken in recent months, but we here at Motherboard welcome her into the cliche cyberpunk pantheon.
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Watch Waypoint Editor-in-Chief (and huge cyberpunk fan) Austin Walker count the ways that Syndicate hacked the way into his heart in this week's Guide to Games.
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Like FromSoftware's dormant mech series, Daemon X Machina casts the player as a new (silent) mercenary in a world that walks the line between post-apocalyptic and cyberpunk.
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We&aposve broken down trailers and news around "Cyberpunk 2077" to give you an idea of what to expect from one of the world&aposs most anticipated games.
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We want Cyberpunk 2077 to be our crowning achievement for this generation, and postponing launch will give us the precious months we need to make the game perfect.
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Musk told Tesla fans and customers to dress in cyberpunk attire, and they did, with many sporting trench coats, colorful LED glasses, homemade outfits, and light-up sneakers.
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Logging into VRChat the first time feels like the beginning of every cyberpunk horror story I read or watched in the 1990s, right down to the bad graphics.
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Back at E3, in the wake of The Last Night, the Waypoint staff got into a long conversation about the history, politics, and purpose of the cyberpunk genre.
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Set in Glitch City's cyberpunk dystopia, the player meets and serves drinks to a variety of women characters at a dive called VA-11 Hall-A (pronounced "Valhalla").
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And while it would be great to work on a project like Cyberpunk 2077, landing a job in the space can be just as difficult as any other industry.
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The studio's moved on for the time being, committing most of its time and resources to Cyberpunk 2077—but I am not done with this series yet, damn it.
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Related: When Pixel Art, Cyberpunk and Horror Collide [Premiere] [Exclusive] We Spoke to Eli Roth About Making a Horror Movie for Snapchat 'American Horror Story' Fan Art Haunts LA
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Related: An Artist Draws The Entire Internet With Crowd-Sourced Input Meet the Artist Drawing Wall-Sized Illustrations of Cities and Natural Disasters Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future
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A puzzler masquerading as a faux board game, each swipe moves your cyberpunk assassin action figure across the board, ostensibly sneaking and killing your way through dozens of levels.
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The twist with this all-girl crew of Hiro Protagonists is that this 1980s world is less William Gibson and more a pastiche of steampunk, cyberpunk, and 1950s culture.
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Following the recently released Ruiner, The Hong Kong Massacre is a game that looks to marry the brutal violence of Hotline Miami with a distinctly cyberpunk look and feel.
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Films like Blade Runner and classic cyberpunk novels like Neuromancer, helped transform science fiction by imagining how new inventions would intersect with existing culture, particularly outside respectable bourgeois society.
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Observer is the bleak, nauseating body-horror cyberpunk that we deserve in this year of miserable political catastrophe after catastrophe and this-isn't-funny-how-is-this-real headlines.
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We've been asking this to everyone we speak to E250, and I think it's a question relevant for Cyberpunk, a game that's about class, a genre that's about class.
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But so far, everything points to Cyberpunk 2077 being a by-the-numbers open-world role-playing game with some unusually cool, but disappointingly underexplored lore and aesthetic motifs.
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Image: D10D3/IMGURBack in the mid-80's, the "cyberdeck"—the neural-connected, on-the-go interface from William Gibson's Sprawl Trilogy—captured the imagination of every cyberpunk fan.
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"Alita," the cyberpunk CGI spectacle, earned $22 million when it debuted in 3,790 locations and $33 million over the four-day frame for a domestic haul of $41 million.
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Some drawings evoke Picasso's cubism, some Dalí's surrealist creatures, some look like fleshy characters on Adult Swim TV, while others are drawn in the texture of a cyberpunk anime.
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Elon Musk Tesla's pickup truck is coming and it's going to look "really futuristic-like cyberpunk, 'Blade Runner,'" he told Recode in November (referring to the sci-fi movie).
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I was deeply immersed in the global cyberpunk scene and working to bring the Tokyo node of this fast-expanding, posthuman, science-fiction-and-psychedelic-drug-fueled movement online.
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That's not to say there aren't people pushing the envelope—Neill Blomkamp's District 9 helped to popularize African cyberpunk, for instance—but the genre has been slow to diversify.
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We can see it all around us, from a generation that communicates in gifs and emoji to the slow build of VR headsets explicitly influenced by '90s cyberpunk literature.
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The video that I'm still the most proud of is "Kill The Noise Part 1" and I feel like it represents the neo-grindhouse, cyberpunk aesthetics that I'm into.
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It looks sort of like a cyberpunk bus station, complete with rows of uncomfortable-looking red seats and a simple roof to provide shelter from the constant acid rain.
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I think, in general, that the technologically induced inequality and limitless corporate power imagined in cyberpunk films and novels comes closest to nailing the future we're rapidly hurtling toward.
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Polish video game producer CD Projekt is expected to present its new flagship project Cyberpunk 2077 at a Microsoft conference on June 9, Puls Biznesu daily said quoting analysts.
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The "it" in question is unclear, but judging from footage we've got, Tay wants to know if we're ready for a dark, gritty, cyberpunk reboot of America's sweetheart. Yes.
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Unlike some cyberpunk games—which just use this sense of disparity as backdrop, but set you above the fray as a chromed-out badass— Observer dives into the muck.
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By the late 1980s, these fragments of proto-cyberpunk were fully declared as a genre, and what some call a glut and what others might call a blossoming occurred.
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It also brought us the news that Reeves would star in the game Cyberpunk 2077; he showed up to E3 for the announcement like a god descending to earth.
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"The Trojan Girl," a fleet-footed cyberpunk thriller, conjures a gang of digital entities, artificial intelligences gone rogue, roaming a virtual universe and seeking access to a greater reality.
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It's rude to play with your food at the Thanksgiving dinner table, but exceptions can be made if you're sculpting newly announced cyberpunk pickup trucks out of your tubers.
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If you want to get lost in a cool and expensive-looking cyberpunk yarn, Altered Carbon is the best show in town—only if you haven't read the books.
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CD Projekt Red's upcoming epic Cyberpunk 2077 will, in fact, have a multiplayer component — though it sounds like it will be some time before you're able to play it.
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One of the most anticipated games of 2020 is Cyberpunk 2077, and at The Game Awards we learned more about a very important part of the experience: the music.
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Originally part of DC's sci-fi imprint Helix before moving to Vertigo, writer Warren Ellis and artist Darick Robertson's series essentially puts Hunter S. Thompson into a cyberpunk thriller.
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Cyberpunk is interested in difficult questions about the nature and future of humanity — but if there's one thing Hollywood doesn't trust, it's the audience's ability to use their brains.
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READ: What Keanu Reeves should do next For the record, Sark's outburst earned him a free copy of the game, according to a tweet from the official "Cyberpunk 2077" account.
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While the photo on the cover was shot in a studio, the opening image of her article was taken in Hong Kong because it looks "more cyberpunk," she tells me.
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Paramount Pictures released a new teaser for is upcoming adaptation of Ghost in the Shell, showing off an android Scarlett Johansson as she fighting her way through a cyberpunk Tokyo.
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And that's because Cyberpunk 2077 is a story grounded in transhumanism (the melding of machine and man), which inherently deals with questions of what it means to be a person.
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New Dawn is a standalone game, but it's not a one-off experiment in the mold of the cyberpunk-tinged Blood Dragon or the Stone Age-themed Far Cry Primal.
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If you ever wanted to see a mash-up of animated cyberpunk action and the archeological thrills of Indiana Jones or Lara Croft, short film X-Story has it all.
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Gibson's script (which also served as fodder for a recently concluded Dark Horse comic book adaptation), isn't the treasure trove of cyberpunk-y concepts fans of the author might expect.
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Related: Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future This Illustrator Is Making a Sci-Fi Drawing Every Single Day for a Year 'Halo' Meets 'Akira' in an Incredible CGI Short Film
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If there's one thing that defines our popular conception of cyberpunk, it's the grandly ruthless multinational company, often some kind of computing or biotechnology powerhouse, that transcends mere state authority.
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The Tesla CEO noted that he wants it to be a "futuristic-like cyberpunk, Blade Runner pickup truck" and that he doesn't care if many people want to buy it.
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Her characters often find themselves at the end of systematic injustice, and her stories, a mix of cyberpunk, epic and urban fantasy, hard science fiction, and more, critique modern life.
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Related: This Illustrator Is Making a Sci-Fi Drawing Every Single Day for a Year Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future 'Halo' Meets 'Akira' in an Incredible CGI Short Film
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It all ties into the biggest problem I had with Blade Runner 2049, a beautiful piece of cyberpunk fiction with disappointingly regressive ideas about sex, race, sexuality, and body type.
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It's a standard "voice on the radio" trope, but Glitch turns out to be one of the few parts of the game to break from the hyper-stylized cyberpunk aesthetic.
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My suggestion is, if you're really baked one day, go see Blade Runner: 2049 if you want to let Denis Villeneuve's cyberpunk dreams wash over you for roughly three hours.
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Here are all of the trailers from today's Google Stadia announcement The games include some top names, like Cyberpunk 2077, Final Fantasy XV, Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Mortal Kombat 11.
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These provocative character threads are woven into a cyberpunk-esque plot involving the sinister social app Perfection, which seems to transform its users for the better — until it kills them.
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Chatsubo is the name of the expat bar in William Gibson's Neuromancer, the award-winning novel that shaped an entire generation of cyberpunk and hacker culture—even inspiring The Matrix.
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Waypoint had a chance to speak with Cyberpunk 2077 quest designer Patrick Mills for a few minutes at E3 about a variety of subjects, including the character creator's limited options.
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Related: Hundreds Of 'Akira' Fans Just Created The Best Live-Action Trailer The 'Akira' / 'Simpsons' Mashup We Never Knew We Needed 'Akira Project' Director Teases a New Cyberpunk Action Film
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In our second E3 2019 episode of Waypoint Radio, we dig deep into the service, plus chat about Cyberpunk 2077, Outer Worlds, Doom: Eternal, Keanu Reeves, and so much more.
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Whether it's the analog, old-fashioned deck-feel of Quadrilateral Cowboy or the subversion of blasé cyberpunk stylistic clichés in Beglitched, games aren't just representing one vision of hacking anymore.
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The worlds of cyberpunk works are visually split, and how their places and people look and relate to each other often tells us as much as exposition or dialogue does.
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It did an incredible amount with card names, art and flavor text to establish a sunnier take on cyberpunk—similar, actually, to our first look at 2077's Night City.
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When his girlfriend goes missing, he plunges into the underbelly of the cyberpunk city to find her, turning to seedy characters played by Paul Rudd and Justin Theroux for answers.
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It's also an unapologetically cheesy movie, filled with lines about "righteous hacks" and the absolutely wonderful, nonsensical visual language used to portray hacking—a bunch of wild cyberpunk-style buildings.
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Doom Eternal, The Last of Us Part II, Resident Evil 3, Final Fantasy VII Remake, Cyberpunk 2077, Ghost of Tsushima are basically at our doorsteps, and I am PlayStation-less.
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And this kind of calculated play makes perfect sense in the System Shock universe, where traditional cyberpunk corporate wars have given way to a ruthless monopoly that approaches totalitarian socialism.
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Today, Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red announced that, if you buy the upcoming game on the Xbox One, you'll receive an upgrade for your Xbox Series X for free.
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She tells me she will never forget sharing an elevator with an angry Grace Jones, who did voiceover work on an earlier Take Two game called Hell: A Cyberpunk Thriller.
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Some are worried why trailers during The Game Awards didn't bear any Stadia logos — even for games that have been confirmed for the platform like Doom Eternal and Cyberpunk 2077.
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The only four games that Google has confirmed for 2020 are Doom Eternal, Cyberpunk 2077, Gods & Monsters, and Watch Dogs: Legion, none of which have confirmed release dates for Stadia.
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Games Discussed: Hollow Knight, Resident Evil 2, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Anthem, Cyberpunk 2077, Marvel's Spider-Man, Wargroove, Witchmarsh, Fortnite, Tetris Effect, Dreams, Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
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A short story that Sheldon wrote as Tiptree, "The Girl Who Was Plugged In," reads today almost as a commentary on Instagram — and is arguably the first cyberpunk story ever published.
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But how Ruiner feels is distinct, its cyberpunk-slanted sounds and sights quite unlike Dennaton's celebrated production, its blunt objects impacting with a more furious force, its palette grislier and grimier.
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In visual effects master Douglas Trumbull's (2001: A Space Odyssey) last feature film, the 1983 proto-cyberpunk Brainstorm, characters create an interface that allows humans to feel the sensations of others.
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But go ahead and glory in the trippy wireframe graphics and the synth remix of Westworld's opening theme, and imagine the weird cyberpunk Western that we got in some alternate universe.
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Discussed: Kids, Ooblets, Knights and Bikes, Super Meat Boy Forever, Ori and the Will of The Wisps, Anthem, The Sinking City, Battlefield V, Destiny 2, Control, Ghosts of Tsushima, Cyberpunk 2077.
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In many fans minds, Cyberpunk would be just fine if it adopted the basic framework of CDPR's Witcher games — particularly the latest — but against the backdrop of a sci-fi setting.
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That's the background of Zachary Mason's new literary cyberpunk thriller Void Star, which examines the line between a hyper-connected society and the vast intelligences that lurk just out of sight.
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Related: Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future Sorayama's Sexy Cyborg Pin-Ups Do Vegas "Cyborg Lolita" Julie Watai's Uncanny Valley of Kawaii Neil Harbisson Is A Cyborg Who Can Hear Colors
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The magazine helped legitimize the burgeoning cyberpunk movement, which imbued the growing community of personal computer users and participants in online communities with an '210s version of hippie sensibilities and values.
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It's a theme which has been represented in numerous cyberpunk stories, such as William Gibson's Neuromancer and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, and it's put to use here in Akira as well.
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Jacobs collection wasn't intended to be controversial: "cyberpunk, cyber-goth, street kids, club kids, couture," were the references Jacobs' stylist, Katie Grand, reeled off to me 48 hours before the show.
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We got pixel-art Sam, and we got violent cyberpunk—but where was anything more, or a refresher of, The Swords of Ditto, or Absolver, or Block'hood, or Spaceplan, or SCUM?
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Cyberpunk emerges at a moment directly after the acceleration of finance capital, wherein economic growth becomes about the number of transactions you can oversee, not about the actual objects you produce.
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That's where the so-called Cyberpunk Truck made its teasing debut — just an indistinct closeup of what appears to be LED running lights — along with the promise of a summer unveiling.
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CD Projekt Red just unveiled a 48 minute long gameplay demo via its Twitch feed and now we've got a pretty good idea of what Cyberpunk 2077 will actually look like.
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Google just announced that the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077 will be coming to its Stadia streaming service next year, marking one of the most high-profile additions to the service yet.
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Maybe the invocations of both that film and Blade Runner are intentional, though, casting the sonic trappings of the often-misinterpreted cyberpunk subgenre onto a high-strung but ordinary crime story.
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Author Bruce Sterling defined the stories of cyberpunk father William Gibson as fundamentally being about "high tech and low life," a description that may also apply to those of the Safdies.
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Snow does not play this as a simple condemnation of our screen-filled, cyberpunk present; rather, his nightmarish contortions are blithely accepted by the characters and appear to have no further consequences.
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That was one of the coolest games I'd ever seen, as Delphine Software's cyberpunk platformer seemed to inhabit a completely different imaginative universe than the other games I encountered at the time.
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That said, while Tokyo 42 plays with the themes of cyberpunk in a number of ways, there was one area where the team was sure it didn't want to change things up.
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Some, like Taiwanese company Octocool, have gone a more cyberpunk mashup route, rigging their $300 jackets with AC units in the form of two lithium battery-powered fans placed by the kidneys.
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Part of the problem is that unlike many cyberpunk protagonists, Kovacs isn't really part of Altered Carbon's world — he's a newcomer being handsomely paid to investigate a Meth's (temporary, but mysterious) murder.
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It's still fun to poke around air ducts and hack into computers, but I'm hoping the rest of my time in Eidos Montreal's latest cyberpunk fantasy will prove to have grander aspirations.
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Observer gives us a world of infected vs healthy; cybernetic vs pure; enfranchised vs disempowered; normative vs mentally ill; shiny cyberpunk VR cathedrals vs worn down, decaying apartment buildings; safety vs freedom.
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Following the Iggy Pop-featuring lead single, "Leaving The Park" sees 0PN return to his instrumental roots, conjuring a digital swarm of tense synths evocative of cyberpunk, new age, and prog styles.
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It's a cyberpunk-y hacking title that asks you to capture data nodes by solving clever procedurally-generated puzzles, then strategize to compromise an entire computer system before the authorities catch you.
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The iconic action-hero actor made a surprise appearance Sunday in L.A. at Microsoft's E3 2019 presentation -- where he was featured in a trailer for "Cyberpunk 2077," which drops in April 2020.
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Still, the game's story is ace, full of satisfying twists right up to the end, and its creative visuals marked a left-turn away from both European fantasy aesthetics and cyberpunk grit.
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Snow Crashwill be an adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic cyberpunk novel, which follows Hiro Protagonist, who delivers pizza by day and by night is a warrior in the virtual reality world Metaverse.
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But the 210-feature lineup does make room for some older work, like "Burst City," from 217, billed as an heir to "Mad Max" and as a cornerstone of Japan's cyberpunk movement.
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Just like ISP names from the 1990s made the dark world of cyberpunk inviting, companies that are based on blockchain will need some good names to make them palatable to the public.
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This is a thoroughly shitty future, but like the cyberpunk of the 1980s, it's also built on the foundations of our own world, on our own social stratification and increasing corporate cronyism.
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It's less often, however, that we see someone making cyberpunk creations that embrace the human aspects of sexuality: hearts that pound, skin that's sensitive, flesh and fat that moves in unpredictable ways.
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Like its 1994 predecessor System Shock, it's a cyberpunk game overstuffed with powers and weapons — you play as an unnamed soldier on a faster-than-light spaceship seemingly overrun by parasitic aliens.
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We only got the tiniest glimpse of Cyberpunk 2077, but given how excited we are for the game, Google Stadia's first-person hacking and motorcycle riding are welcome, despite its short length.
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The demo footage appears to be a condensed version of the one shown behind closed doors at E3 this year, and it shows off more of the actual gameplay for Cyberpunk 2077.
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From the cyberpunk font to the Blade Runner-inspired design to the extreme unveiling with sledgehammers and metal balls shattering glass windows, the average consumer is probably overwhelmed and a bit confused.
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I had started the game for our upcoming Waypoint 101, but while I'd expected some classic cyberpunk, I hadn't expected a game that would so completely nail the appeal of cozy domesticity.
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Snow Crash will be an adaptation of Neal Stephenson's classic cyberpunk novel, which follows Hiro Protagonist, who delivers pizza by day and by night is a warrior in the virtual reality world Metaverse.
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Cyberpunk inspired cinema—The Terminator and The Matrix (to name two obvious examples)—spoke candidly to a latent fear that, as we embraced technocratic civilisation, we would inadvertently turn the controls over entirely.
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Observer and its cyberpunk contemporaries project corporate domination of everyone and everything else into the near future for lessons on hope, resistance, and ho w those things are quashed before they can bloom.
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Weaned on cyberpunk fiction and the 1995 movie Hackers, Popov knew two things from the start: He was going to be a computer outlaw, and he was going to make money at it.
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Matt Ross, known for his work as director of last year's Captain Fantastic, has signed on to direct an adaptation of Tomorrow and Tomorrow, a cyberpunk murder mystery set in a virtual world.
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Adi: I'm happy Blade Runner 22049 was so comfortable getting away from always-dark cyberpunk Los Angeles, while still managing to capture Blade Runner's distinctive style in the scenes that were set there.
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Adi: Even beyond the more scattered themes, it doesn't follow the cyberpunk worldbuilding structure, where you're dropped into a scene and have to piece together its context, as much as I'd have liked.
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At its best, the game leans into one of the most exciting—and most often ill-incorporated—aspects of cyberpunk fiction: sexuality, and the ways in which technology can help and hinder it.
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The rest of the company, passionate gamers eager to realize the dreams promised by Star Trek's Holodeck and William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, were focused on creating a cool product that wowed the senses.
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Keanu Reeves has been all over the news lately, mainly because he is breathtaking, but also because during his appearance at E3 he revealed his role in the upcoming dystopian game, Cyberpunk 2077.
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Built using a dead Commodore 64c, Raspberry Pi 3 and an assortment of connectors, this thing really captures that beautiful ground between hi-tech and outdated that defines cyberpunk in the popular consciousness.
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Like much of the cyberpunk genre, Altered Carbon is steeped in the noir tradition, with familiar tropes like the reluctant detective, the femme fatale, and a case that's more complicated than it seems.
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Where Altered Carbon was a neo-noir cyberpunk story that focused on the consequences of wealth inequality, Broken Angels is a very different book that moves toward military science fiction and space opera.
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What may be less clear is the extent to which his stories belong to a not especially Cuban tradition of science fiction: cyberpunk, a gritty subgenre typified by William Gibson's 1984 novel Neuromancer.
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Masamune Shirow's cyberpunk crime saga was first published as a manga serial in 1989, and by the time it was released as a feature-length film in 1995 the bubble economy had burst.
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The $599 consumer Rift is full of clever and thoughtful touches, starting with the delightfully soft rubberized carrying case it ships in, which makes the whole thing feel like a cyberpunk hacker's console.
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Related: When Pixel Art, Cyberpunk and Horror Collide [Premiere] We Spoke To The Designers Of Norway's New Pixel Art Currency An E-Gallery Of Video Games' Finest Pixel Art, But Who Owns It?
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The abstract vector art gives the game a truly cyberpunk vibe, and the thumping electronic soundtrack is amplified by the action: when you shoot a bad guy, it erupts in a musical tone.
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Nonetheless, his encounters with the global financial markets, before and after the 25 collapse, and his earlier immersion in science fiction and cyberpunk culture, put him in a quasi-apocalyptic frame of mind.
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The incredible, bustling verticality of the city in the 2000 comic The Long Tomorrow served as the blueprint for the cyberpunk metropolis (inspiring the "look" of the cities in Neuromancer and Blade Runner).
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Given how much CD Projekt RED is playing up the amount of choice players will have in Cyberpunk 2077, it'd seem a little out of place for their game to overlook gender fluidity.
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Related: Here Are the Best Illustrators of 2016, According to the World Illustration Awards [Visual Dictionary] An Interactive AI Illustration Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future Drippy, Trippy Illustrations Explore Sexuality and Subcultures
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The artist and designer behind Half-Life 220's City 17 and Dishonored's Dunwall, Antonov has created disturbing, memorable, and unique worlds that simultaneously conjure images of cyberpunk metropolises and grim London alleyways.
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And it was the rare cyberpunk game "that let Asian characters actually be the protagonists in their own stories," as pointed out by writer and Crazy Rich Asians' actor Calvin Wong on Twitter.
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It's a detective story set in a gritty cyberpunk world where no one ever dies, every deviancy is available for a price, and staying young is as simple as buying a new body.
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On the immediate horizon, the neon-pink techno-thrillers Watch Dogs Legion and Cyberpunk 2077 appear to mark a continuation in look and feel, albeit speculating on futures that have seemingly already arrived.
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In an investor Q&A, the co-CEO of CD Projekt Red, the studio behind Cyberpunk 22077, admitted that the recently announced delay would result in more crunch hours for employees, not less.
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It was a good conversation, but I really wish that Adam Smith's excellent interview with cyberpunk trailblazer Mike Pondsmith had already been published so that we could have pointed people in its direction.
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It's clear there was once a pulsing intelligence beneath Ghost in the Shell's shiny exterior — some kind of idea it was trying to explore in a complex, engaging story drawing on cyberpunk tradition.
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Regardless if the forms suggest straightforwardly constrained single sex forms or androgynous, blended body parts, everything in Paradox of Pleasure speaks to me of the radical body politics of cyberpunk power, sex, and violence.
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Strange traffics in the swirling, balletic, kung fu kineticism, unbound by the laws of physics, that defined the Wachowskis' cyberpunk series — which were kind of proto-superhero films, before superhero films took over Hollywood.
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Naturally, this caused some concern—think of all the video games out there now, that have been and that will be, that lean on cyberpunk influences for aesthetic styling, narrative thrust and titular identifying.
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The novel helped establish Gibson as one of the genre's best writers, and has been particularly influential for not only setting the tone of gritty, cyberpunk dystopias, but also popularizing the term "cyberspace" itself.
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In 2014, developers Tim and Adrien Soret released a short playable teaser called The Last Night, which transported the style and vibe of cyberpunk adventures like Blade Runner into a 2D, pixel art game.
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Lucas Matney — TechCrunch's resident virtual reality cyberpunk — noted just this week that 2019 is shaping up to be a very testing year for the entire VR and AR industry, HTC/Vive very much included.
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Void Star plays a delicate balancing act between cyberpunk thriller and literary fiction, spinning out a story that includes both introspection about our relationship with the digital world and fight scenes with armored soldiers.
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The characters were designed by Tatsuro Iwamoto, best known for his work on the Ace Attorney series, while the scenarios were written by Makoto Fukami, who worked on the excellent cyberpunk anime Psycho-Pass.
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Netflix debuted a new trailer for its upcoming cyberpunk show, Altered Carbon, introducing the main story for the show: after he's murdered, Earth's richest man hires an ex-soldier to track down his killer.
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Image courtesy of Crypt Thing Supercomputers, cyberpunk, and Norwegian television—all these and more inform electronic musician and artist Crypt Thing's debut four-track EP Shodan, released today on South East London label squareglass.
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Borrowing its title from the cyberpunk designation for real life, as opposed to online interaction, the exhibition is on view November 12–13 and considers the various ways in which bodies entail our identities.
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Across the web (including right here on this site), people asked all sorts of fascinating questions: Is Cyberpunk inherently a radical, political genre, or has it always been more concerned with aesthetics than praxis?
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An exploration-focused "visual novel" released for the Oculus Rift this week, it's a clearinghouse of cyberpunk fantasies, shameless fanservice to anyone who's ever imagined visiting the Sprawl mega-city of William Gibson's Neuromancer.
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Before you decide to play Psycho-Pass: Mandatory Happiness, you have to ask yourself an important question: how much do you love the cyberpunk anime series about a dystopian future governed by thought control?
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I guess what's interesting about "Artemis" in particular, the feeling that I got a lot from the book is, I mean there is definitely sort of a cyberpunk kind of vibe to it. Huh.
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Involving cyberpunk aesthetics and commentary on the surveillance state, it was co-conceived with visual artists LIL INTERNET and SUS BOY, and it was debuted earlier this year at Barcelona's Sonar festival in June.
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From the endlessly enduring Magic: The Gathering to the cyberpunk dystopia of Android: Netrunner and the bloody intrigues of A Game of Thrones, there's a universe of stories and strategy out there to discover.
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A press release describes "Red Light Drive" by HIRA as "a cyberpunk symphony set in that nightclub in Strange Days" but that is both somehow extremely extra and almost an undersell of the track.
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Musk had warned investors that Tesla's pickup would be 'really futuristic, like cyberpunk Blade Runner,' and he wasn't kidding," Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi wrote in a note to investors titled "Mad Musk, Fury Road.
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In addition to Cyberpunk and the other new games announced during today's Stadia Connect stream, Google has already shown off plenty of titles for Stadia at E3, including Destiny 2, Doom Eternal, and more.
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Already, we've learned that Cyberpunk 2077 is coming to Google Stadia, PUBG is getting cross-play support on console, and another big wave of indie games is on the way to the Nintendo Switch.
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Some Stadia fans were worried when new trailers for Doom and Cyberpunk weirdly didn't include the Stadia logo during The Game Awards, so we're asking if Google has any news about 2020 release dates.
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That was exemplified on their debut release a couple of months ago—the compilation Avon is Dead, which found them twisting and torturing tropes of techno, noise, and hardcore into this surreal cyberpunk melange.
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The next-most established title is a spinoff of Altered Carbon, Netflix's cyberpunk original series set in a world where the wealthy can back up their minds and re-download them into new bodies.
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While Burroughs doesn't appear to have been involved in Scott's Blade Runner, he did have a major influence on the cyberpunk genre — he was a favorite author of William Gibson, who published Neuromancer in 1984.
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That setup is the start to a stunning story that impressively blends together Martine's fantastic and immersive world, a combination political thriller, cyberpunk yarn, and epic space opera that together make up a gripping read.
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" When asked why he's personally most excited about the pickup truck, the CEO said: "Well I can't talk about the details, but it's gonna be like a really futuristic-like cyberpunk, "Blade Runner" pickup truck.
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Harebrained Studios initial cyberpunk offering, Shadowrun Returns, was enjoyable, but because of its linearity (and lackluster writing), failed to evoke the scale or complexity of the urban sprawl it was supposed to take place in.
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Here's the YouTube description with some more details about what you can expect: Cyberpunk 2077 is a narrative-driven, open world RPG set in the most vibrant and dangerous metropolis of the future — Night City.
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Altered Carbon is based on the 2002 novel by Richard K. Morgan, a grim cyberpunk future where technology allows people to transfer their consciousness from one body to the next — if they can afford it.
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Neon cityscapes and gritty cyberpunk lowlifes were well-worn tropes even in 2002, but Morgan's book captures the edge that top-tier authors like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling honed in their own formative books.
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Lightwear eschews the visor-like style of most mixed reality headsets, favoring a cyberpunk-y design with big round lenses, which lead designer Gary Natsume says are supposed to evoke the "universal sign" of glasses.
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It's in this setting that a subtly dystopic narrative of decay unfolds—you can think of it as something like a cyberpunk Toy Story, and watch with uncomfortable curiosity as it goes up and flames.
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Another selfie run through a Japanese edition of William Gibson's Burning Chrome—a book cover that was paper collaged to look like digital glitch—output a nice cyberpunk blend of analog and neural network art.
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It reported a fall in its 211.72 net profit, but its stocks were boosted by hopes that it may launch its much-awaited "Cyberpunk 2077" game at the E3 fair in Los Angeles in June.
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He and Corin had already established a collaborative "dystopian/cyberpunk/cyborg" aesthetic with their previous music videos, and wanted to create another with a motion-controlled avatar that could essentially perform in a virtual environment.
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Using circuit-bent musical equipment, machines transformed into new sonic devices, and audio feedback loops, Italian musician and artist Datacode creates what he calls a "cyberpunk operetta of the posthuman age," to explore this question.
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But those are all also instrumental aspects of its overall charm; the sheer enormity of the Wachowskis' vision commands admiration, and the sillier parts fit in with their "cyberpunk 4 Non Blondes music video" aesthetic.
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There's no word on release date yet — all Google said was that Cyberpunk would be "coming soon" in 2020, although hopefully that means it'll be available alongside the console and PC launch on April 16th.
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As for what the truck will look like, Musk hasn't offered much beyond a bunch of references to its "cyberpunk" aesthetic, and he has only released one very dark and indiscernible teaser image (seen above).
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In non-nuke-news, a bit of cyberpunk fantasia became real this week, as scientists demonstrated that not only could they plant malware in DNA, they could use it hack a gene-sequencing that read it.
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Director Robert Rodriguez (El Mariachi, Spy Kids, Sin City) does excellent work with the CGI-dominated battles, bringing the film's anime and cyberpunk aesthetics to life, and taking advantage of the impossible feats cyborgs can perform.
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The new trailer gives us the clearest sense of what the film will look and feel like as a whole, and it certainly captures the cyberpunk aesthetic series creator Mamoru Oshii established in the original film.
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That means it's just the beginning for fan favorites like CD Projekt Red's futuristic RPG Cyberpunk 2077, Naughty Dog's brutal revenge tale The Last of Us Part II, and Hideo Kojima's bizarre and haunting Death Stranding.
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He calls his craft "synthwave," which has become a catch-all term coined for anything on the internet that mines the vectorized euphoria left behind by 80s cyberpunk classics like Blade Runner, Total Recall, and Robocop.
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The experiment's surprise success raised the possibility of a cyberpunk-style era of biowarfare, and the possibility that an exponentially deadlier disease, smallpox, could be cooked up in a lab through the science of synthetic biology.
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I'd continue to revisit the film year after year in conversations with friends, which would in turn inspire improved writing, which would then go on to help me work through ideas for my own cyberpunk stories.
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It's a great setup, especially since the question of where the human begins and ends once we start (literally) incorporating machines into our lives has long been a staple of cyberpunk and science fiction in general.
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It's about taking shelter from the world outside with someone you love, and Mija's new beat casts an eerie cyberpunk neon over the whole production, echoing the both the tenderness and uncertainty of the track's themes.
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Harebrained Schemes' quiet inclusion of the option to create a character in BattleTech with they/them pronouns elicited a reaction, and BattleTech is a game with a fraction of the attention Cyberpunk 2077 will soon garner.
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Mixed with a healthy dose of influences from science fiction's New Wave and predecessors like Alfred Bester and Philip K. Dick, cyberpunk is the ultimate blender of anxieties about the back half of the 20th century.
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Based on a cyberpunk novel by Richard K. Morgan and created by the "Terminator Genisys" executive producer Laeta Kalogridis, "Altered Carbon" takes place in a future when technology has brought about a qualified form of immortality.
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Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red has drip fed fans with images and information about the upcoming sci-fi RPG shooter since it was announced in 2012, but teasers have been short on footage of gameplay.
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And while CD Projekt Red has said that Cyberpunk 2077 is still scheduled for an on-time delivery, it's possible that this weekend's releases may be some of the last to go off as originally planned.
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CD Projekt Red brags that Cyberpunk 2077 will be "more ambitious" than its previous game, The Witcher 3, which has hundreds of possible quests and can take up to 200 hours to complete in its entirety.
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There are certainly some semi-questionable design inspirations out there — lately there's been a trend of cyberpunk-looking metal cases, likely inspired by Campfire Audio — but that happens with big companies, too, and isn't really theft.
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The word was the invention of science fiction writer William Gibson, who'd first envisioned a shared dataspace roamed by "console cowboys" in his 1984 novel "Neuromancer" — an instant classic that gave the cyberpunk genre its label.
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We touch on Madden's very Friday Night Lights-esque story mode, new content (including ghost trolls!) for Total War: Warhammer, and the pleasures of Uncharted: Lost Legacy as well as the very dark cyberpunk of Observer.
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So, again, Gates isn't wrong, but in lieu of the collapse of organized government and a descent into a dystopian cyberpunk universe, it's pretty hard to determine what impact crypto is actually having on the public's safety.
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A week ago, Ingress, the cyberpunk-themed mobile game previously made by developer Niantic Labs and released at the end of 2013, was the closest you could get to catching AR pocket monsters linked to IRL locations.
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The kinda dinky-looking 2017 Dodge Charger Pursuit is about to get a futuristic upgrade—if you think the dystopian vision of Detroit from 1986 cyberpunk thriller RoboCop is what our future will look like, that is.
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In 2018 Mr Bezos announced plans to film those books, as well as Larry Niven's "Ringworld" and "Snow Crash", a cyberpunk novel by Neal Stephenson—who was, for some of Blue Origin's early days, its only employee.
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Tsuki, the messianic leader of the Systemspace movement, claimed to have the ability to transfer registrants' souls to a superior, cyberpunk dimension called "LFE" if they signed up to the Tuski Project website before July 24858, 216.
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Related: A Vietnamese Art Collective Is Making Commercials for Communism The Future of Storytelling Reimagines Cinema And Videogames as One Experience Cyberpunk Illustrations of a Dystopian Future These Abstract Paintings Are Made By Slashing Blades Across Canvas
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The details are fantastic—the settings of Dubai and Prague are all great, Jensen's troubles with his own augmentations, the perfect cyberpunk feel—but finish the game and it all kind of ends up feeling like cosplay.
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CD Projekt Red, the Polish developer best known for its work on The Witcher series, released a short statement on its twitter feed today claiming that early work from its next title, Cyberpunk 2077, has been compromised.
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The movie, out on Valentine's Day, is a gritty, cyberpunk homage to Kishiro's 1990 work that takes place in a post-apocalyptic world and follows a cyborg named Alita (Rosa Salazar) as she navigates an unfamiliar world.
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To me, cyberpunk means like implants and like stuff like that, and there's none of that in "Artemis," but ... No, it's very kind of clean, I guess, you've got Gizmos, you've got people with their devices, basically.
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At the heart, some people hold out for the politics of the "punk" of cyberpunk that existed before, and against, the latter-day stapling of Blade Runner umbrellas and droning soundtracks into any old movie or game.
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WARSAW, March 10 (Reuters) - Poland's biggest video game producer CD Projekt is seeking age recommendations from the industry's rating boards for its flagship product "Cyberpunk 2077" ahead of the game's launch in September, it said on Tuesday.
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If you need a primer, cyberpunk is the sci-fi/film noir mashup subgenre where everyone is a cyborg antihero, corporations rule the world, and every location looks like Tokyo or Hong Kong on a dreary night.
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Fans were able to play it for the first time, Square Enix finally unveiled the release date, and it even turned its show floor booth into a life-sized re-creation of the gritty cyberpunk metropolis Midgar.
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Well, in Frozen Synapse 22018, your role is to lead an agency in identifying who or what is behind the mysterious Sonata, a violent organization that is randomly attacking innocents in the cyberpunk city of Markov Geist.
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"In the days of the actual cyberpunk movement, the late 80s to early 90s, the emphasis was much more on 'punk' in the sense of someone who stands in opposition to big systems of control," he said.
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Image: Neo CabNeo Cab isn't a game that will make you feel optimistic about the future—that is, unless the notion of a cyberpunk SoCal border town oozing in surveillance and run by an insidious conglomerate excites you.
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The residents of Bay City, a descendant of San Francisco modeled in the cyberpunk aesthetic mold, are able to live forever, thanks to a remnant of alien metal that can store a person's consciousness like a memory stick.
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Cyberpunk 2077 does not have a release date, but it's scheduled to come out on the existing generation of consoles and PC, so it's safe to say it will be playable in the next two years or so.
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In Unity's latest short film, the cyberpunk Adam, the team behind the game engine seems to pass beyond the uncanny valley with 3D graphics that should get viewers imagining what lies just over the horizon of the artificial.
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The literary and cinematic movement known as cyberpunk, which was marked by "science fiction dealing with future urban societies dominated by computer technology," feels particularly relevant to hardvapour's fascination with Gabber/hardcore sounds, Slavic imagery, and hacker aesthetics.
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Video games have long tripped the light fantastic with the cyberpunk genre, and Akira's got its tendrils into many other aspects of modern culture and entertainment, from TV to music, as this VICE article from late 2016 illustrates.
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While a piece like HYPERSLEEP, with its oxidized copper extraterrestrial alien skull, calls to mind H.R. Giger's work on the xenomorph in Alien, Blanché's poster, MECHA, has a more cyberpunk flavor, featuring what looks like a cybernetic soldier.
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The aesthetics are the politics, but people have managed to augment them and bend them toward goals that aren't nihilistic and defeatist, but abandon the "original" cyberpunk and what it "meant" to do something different and new entirely.
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He began the week by pulling some extremely dad-ish moves while celebrating the Shanghai Gigafactory's very first cars, and rounded it out with the (maybe?) reveal that his girlfriend, cyberpunk musician Grimes, is expecting a new baby.
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Then, one year later at another Microsoft E3 press conference, Keanu Reeves showed up to announce that he would play a character in the game — and, more important, that "Cyberpunk 2077" would finally come out in April 2020.
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With his total control over the direction of his game, he's able to tackle cyberpunk and game design with a degree of freedom to indulge in wherever his whims take him that is rarely seen in the games industry.
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It's rare that a game becomes one of the biggest wins and the biggest losses of E3 at the same time, but The Last Night — a cyberpunk side-scroller made by indie studio Odd Tales — may have done it.
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Later, we were able to check out a hands-off demo of the game to see just how its role-playing mechanics work and how Cyberpunk 2077 incorporates elements from other genres like shooters and open-world action games.
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Dragonfall offers its own take on so many different stock Cyberpunk ideas, from the human-machine divide, to the place of faith in a world that has been overrun with both technology (and magic; it is Shadowrun, after all).
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Both "The Vela," a story about a refugee crisis in space, and "Ninth Step Station," a cyberpunk police procedural that takes place in Tokyo, generated enough buzz among fans that second seasons were green-lighted for each, Barton said.
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Much like the proto-cyberpunk film Blade Runner and comic The Incal, Akira and Ghost in the Shell influenced a new generation of manga comics and films, while introducing a particularly distinct type of urban architecture in the process.
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In so many cyberpunk worlds, corporations have taken over, technology has been co-opted by the powerful to control the masses, and the entire planet is an environmental disaster zone—which is basically where we find ourselves in 2017.
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We can't hand-wave away the trends that we see in our own world with "it'll be better someday!" nor can we ignore the naive tech-fetishism of early cyberpunk, which was dark, and sometimes sad, but always cool.
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Related: Distract Yourself in Virtual Reality with a Meta Virtual Reality Game About Virtual Reality Cyberpunk Meets 'Slow TV' in These Self-Generating Music Videos [Premiere] Tumble Around a Giant Alien Balloon Animal in This Psychedelic CGI Music Video
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His work, including "gateway anime" Cowboy Bebop, is among a class of 1980s and 90s cyberpunk anime that has long been compared to Blade Runner for its bleak urban setting and fixation on the difficult questions technology presents humanity.
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It's like cyberpunk grocery checkout with a dash of Aphex Twin, and over the years, these videos have racked up millions of views, shared by the likes of artists like Shawn Wasabi and club culture tastemaker outlet Boiler Room.
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"Cyberpunk 2077" will be a single-player game at launch with no multiplayer, although one of the game's designers Patrick Mills says a multiplayer mode is in development and may make it into the game at a later date.
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At the start of my career, before anyone had ever uttered "cyberpunk" as a literary term, mentioning Ballard's name to a new acquaintance at an sf convention would either produce its own moment of mutual recognition or it wouldn't.
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Sixty other game titles were also unveiled, including other highly anticipated releases like the fifth installment of "Gears of War" and "Cyberpunk 2077," which featured an appearance by actor Keanu Reeves both in-game and on stage at the conference.
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It does not forbid other developers using the word in their own titles or synopsis—it just prevents them from using "cyberpunk" as the main word in a title, in such a way that it could represent a consumer-confusing shorthand.
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While Gibson's iconic 1984 cyberpunk novel Neuromancer explored cultural anxieties about technology and artificial intelligence during the rise of the digital age, Archangel delves into the apocalyptic terror of nuclear weaponry, which has loomed over humanity for more than 70 years.
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If You Love Sci-fi And Hate Picturesque Scenes Chock Full Of Flowers: Alita: Battle Angel This cyberpunk dystopian future fantasy epic is based on Yukito Kishiro's manga Gunnm which ran from 1990 to 1995, inspiring the anime Battle Angel in 1993.
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That a string of incremental changes to Amazon's seller platform may have manifested as a mysterious crisis at the sleepy United States Patent and Trademark Office, via Shenzhen, sounds, well, not exactly cyberpunk, but at least a little bit sci-fi.
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The car does look like something out of a cyberpunk movie or video game, and I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it pops up as part of a product placement deal with some Hollywood studio in the next couple of years.
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The world's most cyberpunk-y businesses, the ones busy developing virtual reality headsets while enmeshing humanity in massive data networks that track our every move, didn't ready their salaried assassins and killer viruses as their sci-fi stand-ins would.
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Cyberpunk 2077 could contrast these ads with the real experience of trans and gender-nonconforming people in this future, for instance, or create a world where sexual expression is so genuinely weird that our current identity labels no longer apply.
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CD Projekt, the Poland-based game publisher responsible for The Witcher, just published 48 minutes of gameplay footage for its upcoming title Cyberpunk 2077, a futuristic sci-fi open-world game that generated a lot of buzz at this year's E3.
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It's a story-based cyberpunk game that I found fascinating, with bold ideas about sex and sexuality and body positivity in the context of a complex future society—but a late game decision to deadname a trans character really bothered me.
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Reports of the game's behind-closed-door demo--which you can hear us talk about right here--and some of the developer interviews that followed kicked off weeks of fascinating conversation about the history and nature of Cyberpunk as a genre.
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But they've also sparked a bit of an existential crisis over on r/cyberpunk, the subreddit dedicated to the drizzly, grimy, neon-drenched genre dominated by technology and pioneered by books like William Gibson's Neuromancer and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
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Between searching for Deckard and hanging out with giant cyberpunk holograms, Gosling is supported by stunning performances from Robin Wright (House of Cards), Dave Bautista (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Jared Leto (Requiem for a Dream, Fight Club, Suicide Squad).
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Via Visual News Related: The Wearable, Projection-Mapped Mask Is a Cyberpunk Masterpiece Hide From Surveillance By Wearing A Mask Of This Artist's Face Let Robots Do Your Tinder Swiping (Because It's the Future) This Piece of Meat Just Swiped Right
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Valhalla grew out of an entry in the 2014 Cyberpunk Jam game development challenge, and it's created by a tiny Venezuelan studio called Sukeban Games — the name is a reference to the teenage girl gangs that swept Japan in the '70s.
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The game has created a legion of fans who've devoured every book and backstory detail available, and it also turned Polish developer CD Projekt Red into gaming superstars, giving the studio the resources to work on the highly anticipated Cyberpunk 2077.
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