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Neuromancer

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 24th, 2022

Though cyberpunk existed before it, Neuromancer is the book where it comes into its own.

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Imagining the Future in Games

By Ruth Cassidy • June 24th, 2021

A vision of tomorrow, today!

Collision Detection
A futuristic city at night with skyscrapers.

Cyberpunkland and the Full Service Dystopia Simulator of Tomorrow, Today

By Ben Sailer • March 10th, 2021

A free dystopian browser-based game like Cyberpunkland should be a silly diversion. But considering recent events, it feels bizarrely prescient instead.

Cyberpunk

By Stu Horvath and John McGuire • January 25th, 2021

You ready for some style over substance?

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Broken Reality Represents The Drudgery of Internet Culture

By Khee Hoon Chan • April 10th, 2019

What fuels Broken Reality’s bizarro universe is the same kick of dopamine we get from the positive feedback from social media.

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Crack the Network: It’s Called Cyberpunk Not Cybersecurity

By Liam Conlon • November 23rd, 2018

While disappointed by Cyberpunk 2077’s announcement to exclude a non-binary option, Conlon thinks it’s necessary to desire more than small kernels of representation.

Unwinnable Monthly – November 2018

By Stu Horvath • November 15th, 2018

The new issue of Unwinnable Monthly is out! Read about inclusive cyberpunk, a history of Flash games and much, much more!

Another Look

Hood Cyberpunk

By Yussef Cole • August 7th, 2018

Cyberpunk stories don’t generally want, or need, to change society. It seems, rather, that they’re perfectly content partying in the rubble.

Modern-day Cyberpunk Is Already Here

By Khee Hoon Chan • March 20th, 2018

So what stories should cyberpunk tell today? As the foreshadowing of dystopian societies inches closer and become less of a distant future, our games should also reflect our conflicting relationship with technology today.

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Observer’s Videogame Aesthetic

By Edward Smith • February 26th, 2018

It is not discursive or a broad parable; Observer’s themes are emotional and less tangible.

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Peaks and Valleys in Observer

By Reid McCarter • February 22nd, 2018

Reid McCarter explores a cyberpunk landscape made of emotions and memories.

A womans body, in a transparent jacket and black underwear, covered in blood. This is a still from Blade Runner.

Blade Runner and the Violence of Humanity

By Maddi Chilton • October 27th, 2017

Replicants bleed, stumble, hyperventilate, and wince. Pris and Roy kiss like grade-schoolers even as they mourn their friends and worry about the future…They’re frightened, and they don’t want to die.

The Burnt Offering

Unpopular Opinions

By Stu Horvath • June 23rd, 2017

All my unpopular opinions, gathered in one convenient place.

Unwinnable Monthly – The Rebellion Issue

By Stu Horvath • January 20th, 2017

Now is the perfect time for a magazine dedicated to rebellion.

Oh, Give Me Some Head…Room

By Network Awesome • July 24th, 2012

Network Awesome catches the wave and remembers the smarmy cyberpunk of Max Headroom.

Neuromancer: Not Quite Hollywood, but Still Expensive

By Peter Lang • July 28th, 2011

With Vincenzo Natali at the helm, 2012’s film adaptation of Neuromancer is looking to have a budget of $60 million.

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