2015
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Media in the 90s was a weird creature. It was the decade the Internet boomed but had yet to achieve complete supremacy over media migration, and because of that circumstance it...
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Cyber Santa by Jim Leftwich, from 1993’s edition of Beyond Cyberpunk! Christmas is a holiday that by it’s very nature rubs a lot of cyberpunks the wrong way, because of it’s...
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Based in Buenos Aires, the creative studio 3DAR has recently released a short movie called Uncanny Valley about virtual reality addiction. Foreseeing a future where VR junkies...
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Introduction Soma, by Frictional Games, is a great addition to the genre of science fiction horror, as well as the cyberpunk genre. This isn’t surprising considering that the...
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Rarely am I the one to promote a graphic novel or any type of reading media given the huge lack of time I have for consuming entertainment in that form. But being a long time...
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The list of imagined effects from the use of computers and devices connected to the Internet and one another has never been short and have always been supplemented with...
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Serial Experiments Lain (1999), Ryutaro Nakamura Some days ago, the article Is Solarpunk the new Cyberpunk?, written by RoAnna Sylva, popped on my Facebook timeline. Now...
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Summary Cyberpunk films are no stranger to presenting worlds where there are an abundance of options for escaping reality in favor of one more pleasant. In the future of...
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The Cold War & The Creation of the Cyberpunk Welcome Rootwyrm to the regular contributors for Neon Dystopia. This is his first article, but definitely not the last. I vividly...
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Warning: This post has spoilers. Is it a common place to say that David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis (2012) looks like Kathryn Bigelow’s Strange Days (1995)? Maybe not. I have...
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Sam Esmail broke the predictive model of summer cable shows with the psychological thriller Mr. Robot. Elliot Alderson is our hero, and from the first utterance of his shaky...
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Cyberpunk Beginnings… In 1986, Larry McCaffery interviewed William Gibson and he mentioned how Escape from New York had influenced his writing, “Yeah, like Escape from New York...
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In Mr. Robot’s New York, there’s a clear distinction between classes and the influence they hold in the disparate social circles they inhabit. Interlopers are quickly detected....
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Netflix has ordered a new series based on a dystopian pilot that was posted in three parts in 2011, entitled Three Porcento (Three Percent), based on the plot where people are...
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A few years ago, when I was just starting to explore the industrial scene, I discovered an amazing song called Vyperpunk by a band I had never heard of called Dope Stars Inc. I...
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This post was written by Josh Ishiro Finney, an author and artist for 01 Publishing. You can contact Josh via Facebook or Twitter. Punk. Punk rock. Punk ’til you puke! As a...
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The new Terminator movie claimed to be the true successor to Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgement Day. So much so that even James Cameron said it was the real third film. I’m...
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If you’re reading this without IP maskers, free from the fear that your online interactions are being monitored, though I wouldn’t recommend you be so bold to assume such...
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In the proof-of-concept video Speedhack, you have the chance to check the work of Dylan J. Nathan, a British architecter who has been in a long journey through electronic...
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Part 1 – Pattern Recognition Foreword I wrote this guide sometime in 2012, just before it seems everyone suddenly realized we were living in a previously obscure, very...
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[Spoilers ahead. You’ve been warned.] Season 3 Summary Mrs. S handed Helena over to Paul in order to keep the US government away from the sisters. Not liking her twin taken,...
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I have often thought of Shadowrun as the gateway drug to cyberpunk. If only I had nuyen for every person I coerced into playing Shadowrun as futuristic D&D, then dropped them...
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Music incorporating cyberpunk themes is fairly common across a variety of genres, but until now, I had yet to come across music that’s about the artist’s relationship with the...
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Kung Fury is really a love note to 80s action movies. Much of the cyberpunk ascetic comes from this period and is well represented here. Kung Fury really only has cyberpunk...
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I took a long time to finally watch to Alex Garland’s debut film Ex Machina (2015), but when I was finally able to see it, I had so much high hopes that I ended up being a...
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It seems like a long time since Power Glove’s EP 1 was released in early 2012. The retrofuturistic feel of tracks like ‘Night Force’ or ‘Streets of 2043’ have reached a level...
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Marco Ramirez, the new showrunner/writer of Marvel’s Daredevil Netflix original television series has been hired to write a screenplay for a live-action adaptation of the...
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On the hunt for new cyberpunk clothing we came across EchoDecay. Their style caught our eye and we sat down for a little chat… Neon Dystopia: How did you get started?...
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Today we launched the Cyberpunk Games Database; a resource for people needing inspiration, curious about a particular title, or doing research into cyberpunk games. It’s based...
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In Brazil, there is this dilemma about national identity that was already the subject of several posts written by foreigners who lived here for some time. You can find tons of...
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It’s difficult to pinpoint the exact moment where cyberpunk and the 1980s VHS trash aesthetic became so inexorably intertwined. I’d hazard that it likely stems from the slew of...
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5 Lives Studios have released an update to their Kickstarter-funded, Early Access cyberpunk game Satellite Reign, bringing it up to version 0.6. With this version comes the...
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“By 2085, ocean levels have risen to a point that entire coastal cities and islands have been submerged. On an island megalopolis, a genetic virus and cybernetic beings are...
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American CEO Martine Rothblatt shows how transgender issues can be connected to transhumanism Should we consider 2015 as the year of transhumanism? Well, we’re barely at the...
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When I originally watched the trailer for Vice, I immediately thought this is what Westworld would look like if it had been an action movie. Now, having actually watched the...
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(image courtesy of AskMen) It was reported this past Thursday that China dragged the world into the future, caring little as to the preparedness of everyone else. Genetic...
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Although John Carpenter’s excellent recent release of original music Lost Themes is perhaps a little too horrorcentric to be within Neon Dystopia’s remit, the recent video for...
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Released in 2001, Oni is a video game developed by Bungie West. Available for Windows, Mac OS and Playstation 2, it’s a third-person action game with hand-to-hand combat...
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The words “Call of Duty” are enough to put a lot of people off, but perhaps not when it starts to venture into cyberpunk territory. Take a look at the latest “Ember” trailer...
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One of the most satisfying things about cyberpunk is that its visions of tomorrow will always be a day away. Wearable tech, hacking scandals, personal drones and other items...
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Trends are often thought of as cyclical, and as they drop to the floor of the ocean of social consciousness, they swim underneath larger trends only to surface again. That...
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Starting back in 1997, the aggrotech/dark electro Dutch band Grendel was named after the beast in the Anglo-Saxon tale Beowulf. That’s where the folk inspiration ends – the...
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True Skin may have come out a few years ago, but it’s lasting impact on me is always somewhere when I watch other cyberpunk films. It takes place in the distant future where it...
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Today we live in a world saturated with technology. What this means is that electronic security is a constant point of concern, not just for the IT industry, spies, or...
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Here it is – the next instalment in the Deus Ex franchise will be Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Check out the great trailer below – it’s a decent length and provides more details...
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Is there a lack of cyberpunk in your games collection? Bored of Netrunner or Cyberpunk 2020 but can’t find an alternative? A couple of weeks ago Grenade Punch Games launched a...
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Nothing evokes more cyberpunk imagery than the image of a lone figure perched like Batman on a gargoyle, surveying the internet as packets move around beneath him, watching the...
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Alex Strunz Some may think the EBM scene in Brazil is not so strong, but the truth is that there are still many artists striving to keep it alive. One to be mentioned is Alex...
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The adjective ‘cinematic’ tends to get attached to cyberpunk musical projects a lot, either because the music itself owes a lot to soundtrack composers or is deliberately...
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Some absolutely incredible medical breakthroughs have given cause for a Special Edition of Doc Forre’s Science Report. Medical Technology A common risk in medical surgery is...
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In the previous article written by Karl, he gave us a great notion of how we can think about reality and existence according to a cyberpunk point of view. However, what do some...
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Neon Dystopia has been growing. Whether we’re talking about the size of the team, the number of articles produced, the traffic heading to the website, or the projects we have...
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Although you may find her creations rather futuristic than cyberpunk, Iris van Herpen is a Dutch fashion designer every science fiction fan should pay attention. Even if you...
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This article attempts to discover whether virtual reality is merely an experience one can have through a pair of goggles, or if it is somehow already present in our lives...
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“Divine Move” perfectly presents what frustrates me most about 12 Monkeys as an expanded story and universe thus far: the presentation of compelling elements and their...
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Futurepop has been an amazing music genre to create sci-fi atmospheres. As an outgrowth of electronic body music (EBM), which was very popular in the 80’s, futurepop had its...
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Did you hear? Cyberpunk has come into its own. I know, you’re excited. Right? Reading this on this site tells me you have some interest in cyberpunk, at least enough to want to...
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Neill Blomkamp’s most recent movie, Chappie, is the successor of his previous films District 9 and Eylsium. Where District 9 was mostly about institutional apartheid, and...
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In “Tomorrow,” we see Cole surviving the early days of the plague in Ukraine before he’s spotted by the UN and handed over to the military that’s been hunting him. Soon he’s...
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If ever there was a sign that Cyberpunk is entering a form of renaissance, at least in terms of games, it has to be a sale on Steam. Valve’s digital distribution platform is...
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The massive surge in music drawing on 1980s genre cinema in the past few years has been something of a boon to cyberpunk fans. Not only does the influence of Vangelis’ seminal...
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The modern incarnation of Cyberpunk as we know it is a sub-genre of Sci-Fi, a handful of movies, a fashion statement, a collection of novels; but what’s so Punk about...
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Neuroscience Oh creativity, you’re so under-researched, yet so weirdly important. Operational definition? Last I checked it was sketchy at best, but that’s what inventories are...
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What’s that famous saying? “You wait forever for one cyberpunk-related daily sketch prompt to show up and then along come two at once!” Wait, that’s not it. Regardless, that’s...
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It probably appeared to some that DeviantPunk stopped almost as soon as it started. The truth is it only took a break. It’s back and with perhaps the best cyberpunk art Neon...
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Last week’s review of 12 Monkeys was skipped. Obviously not much happened, and our patience with the show is visibly wearing thing. To summarize things quickly, “The Keys” went...
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There are very few albums I can recall hearing for the first time. I remember the first time I fell in love with The Clash’s London Calling or Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures,...
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Space Most folks have heard that extended time in space can wreck havoc on the muscles and bones of astronauts, but new research is showing that there are even worse...
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[Update: Due to the DMCA rules, Vimeo & Youtube pulled the short film but you can still view it here for now on Shankar’s Facebook page] I was never a huge Mighty Morphin Power...
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In the odd future where West 7 is in control, Cole learns that he hadn’t returned further in the future where the militia had taken over the facility but it was an entirely new...
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Readers of William Gibson’s Zero History might recall that part of the plot revolved around the search for the origins of a secret clothing brand called ‘Gabriel Hounds’, with...
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In light of some of the recent cyber-attacks, such as the hacking of Sony and Anthem, it’s easy to be pessimistic about the state of computer security today. So the last thing...
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Medical Technology As of the time of this writing, the Keck School of Medicine is preparing to announce preliminary results in a clinical trial of auditory brainstem implants...
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It’s 2013, and Jennifer Goines, convincingly more sane than previously seen, gets to the Night Room for the first time and handles her father’s virus despite fearing potential...
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It’s a Friday night in the harbor area of Aberdeen, Scotland and the sky above The Moorings Bar is the color of dirty tungsten. Beyond the dock’s tangle of ship’s radars and...
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After a highly-acclaimed first season that drew in millions across countries, and the third right around the corner, I take a look back to the second season of Orphan Black and...
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Last year’s Dangerous Days by Perturbator might not only be one of my favorite cyberpunk themed albums ever, but one of my favorite albums period. It was certainly one of the...
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It’s a new year and that means that the 2015 game release schedule is going to start taking shape! More specifically, several fantastic looking cyberpunk games are scheduled to...
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This has been a pretty awesome last couple weeks for the Medical Technology side of the news, so this week’s update is going to be a little bit more focused than the first...
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Another day, another Kickstarter? No – not when it’s cyberpunk. Glitch Hunter, the first digital cyberpunk CCG, hit Kickstarter earlier today and made nearly $3,000 in it’s...
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It wasn’t clear whether or not this particular special of Black Mirror would be aired. Brooker, the showrunner, had expressed wanting to take a hiatus from the show in the...
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In a 382-to-128 vote, the UK has agreed to step into the future and adopt measures to support and regulate embryonic repair, the medical practice which helps eliminate genetic...
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Pushing against the dearth of sci-fi television in most markets, and premiering just a few months before the disastrous Almost Human, Orphan Black should’ve failed just after...
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In September 2014, Samsung announced its Virtual Reality (VR) headset, the Gear VR. Unlike the Oculus Rift or some other headsets, it does not contain a built in screen but...
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What is it that draws you to the Cyberpunk genre? This is a question I ask myself at least a dozen times every year since I first saw Johnny Mnemonic when I was around ten...
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Cole’s reluctance to open up to Railly puts a strain on their relationship in the present as they search for the “Night Room” before the 12 Monkeys use Goines to get there...
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Neon Dystopia is proud to present our new Forums! We set up the forums with the idea of bringing people together to discuss anything cyberpunk-related. As a team of writers,...
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What happens when you can plug yourself into a virtual reality game and hone real muscle memory at an accelerated rate? That is the central question that Haphead poses. The...
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Almost at home in William Gibsion’s Spook Country, visual artist Simon Heijdens has found a way to take technology and apply it to visual art in a novel way that’s spawning a...
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Taking an odd turn, the second season of Black Mirror features less high-tech scenarios than its predecessors, but Brooker’s focus is still centered on the social implications...
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This was an article submitted to Neon Dystopia by TTristanMartin. In gadget circles, 2015 will be the year of the Smartwatch and, one by one, consumers are a step closer to...
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A link between hip-hop and cyberpunk may not initially seem like the most obvious musical connection. Industrial’s cybernetic fusions of organic instrumentation and machinery,...
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Having your art described as “the closest thing to the visions I’ve experienced on DMT [Dimethyltryptamine]” is most probably a compliment. At the least, it suggests that a...
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After training Railly in the basics of using a handgun, fearing the men who’d kidnapped Jennifer could come after her, she’s called by police who want to know what happened at...
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While cybernetic enhancements or implants are archetypal of, but not limited to, the cyberpunk genre, Upgraded: The Cyborg Anthology as an entire book prioritises the human...
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What happens when we cease to fight our own wars? This isn’t a question of privatization through private military companies, but more a question on technological progression...
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Science has been making many new discoveries lately, helping to turn your cyberpunk dystopia from fiction into fact. Let’s see what they’ve been up to recently… Marketing The...
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Disclaimer: This is a review filled with spoilers. Black Mirror is the modern-world’s answer to the analysis of the social and human conditions of Western life brought to us by...
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Disclaimer: There will be spoilers. Isaac Asimov is one of the inspirations for early cyberpunk creators. He is responsible for the concept of the “Three Laws of Robotics” and...
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You may have heard of AdBlock; its a plugin that runs in your computer’s web browser to keep ads from appearing while you browse the internet. Cool, right? Well, a group of...
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The Cyberpunk Community Soundtrack project has celebrated the completion of its fourth year with the release of its new 2014 compilation. Comprised of a massive 47 tracks from...
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Raspberry Pi might not be the newest kid on the block anymore, but it is one of the most accessible. It is strong enough to display HD movies and small enough to make wearable...
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Welcome to Westworld, the resort where you get to experience what it was like to live in the Wild West. Don’t mind the fact that the movie was written and directed by Micheal...
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In the sprawl, or whatever currently passes for the sprawl, there are any number of airborne dangers; from thick clouds of smog to tear gas grenades. In order to protect...
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It’s a personal hope of mine that the smartest of us are the best of us. This is an ideal that I know has no place in reality. Irrespective of IQ, social status, or the ability...
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These days it’s difficult to find decent cyberpunk clothing unless you are willing to pay a shitload of money and search through the millions of clothes that have nothing to do...
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The cyberpunk music scene in 2015 is off to a great start with Stockholm-based producer Irving Force’s recently released debut, the Undercover EP. The EP’s six atmospheric...
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When ever Phillip K. Dick’s name is mentioned a cyberpunk’s ears perk up. Dick was the most prolific of the proto-cyberpunk writers and many of the best cyberpunk movies, such...
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Disclaimer I: Spoilers are in this review. Read at your own risk. Disclaimer II: If you’re going to watch 12 Monkeys (2015) you need to forget about 12 Monkeys (1995). Nothing...
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Disclaimer I: Spoilers are in this review. Read at your own risk. Disclaimer II: If you’re going to watch 12 Monkeys (2015) you need to forget about 12 Monkeys (1995). Nothing...
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While you’re reading this, a team of computer scientists, engineers, neurologists, and many other ologists are putting billions of computer equipment to the grueling task of...
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Scandroid invokes a level of cyberpunk that few other musicals projects have. As you are drawn into the engrossing music, you envision walking the streets flanked with neon...
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You may have heard the question before; “What is Cyberpunk?” Maybe someone set you a challenge, instead; “Try to define Cyberpunk.” It’s one of those things that divides...
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Cyberpunk’s “high-tech, low-life” mantra is where Primordia fits in very well. It is a point-and-click game with a bundle of puzzles and fun conversations between two quirky...
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Recently I took a Youtube trip. I’m generally not a fan of those. I wind up watching too many videos about nothing and I’m left wondering where the afternoon went. But this...
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APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED Thank you to all who applied, shared, or otherwise showed an interest. We’ve had applications from some incredible people and the team will be...
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In his 2003 book, Pattern Recognition, William Gibson introduces us to Cayce Pollard (pronounced Case – anyone surprised?) who is a coolhunter. As described in the excerpt...
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I had the opportunity to play Metrocide before it was released just before Christmas and I liked what I saw. Great cyberpunk visuals, a well-built city as your concrete...
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Some photographers don’t even know that there will be fans of cyberpunk out there appreciating their work as pieces of cyberpunk art. I reckon James Beyer is one of them as his...
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It’s time for some more cyberpunk art from the depths of DeviantArt’s galleries, so power up your cyber-optic enhancements (put on your spectacles) and catch a load of this! If...
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The Assassin’s Creed games are largely a mash-up of science fiction and historical fantasy, but the near future setting of Abstergo Industries is a very cyberpunk place, and...