cyberpunk
‘It’s not my department’: A Review of Brazil
Terry Gilliam’s Brazil has eluded me for many years now. After having read, watched, and played through many dystopian worlds, I have finally decided to watch the cult 80’s film. Needless to say, the ...
Last Week in Cyberpunk – 3/4/19 to 3/17/19 the two week special
Through hiccups and crashes and the ever present screeching of white noise we are broadcasting to you from the digital wasteland. We are back to a regular scheduled program and bringing you two weeks ...
Pictures at 11 by Norman Spinrad: Media manipulation in a pre-internet era
KLAX Action News team taken hostage! Eco-terrorists demand halt to construction of nuclear desalination plants off the coast of Los Angeles! Pictures at 11! Norman Spinrad is arguably best known in cy...
State of Mind – An Adventure into Metaphysical Dystopia
I spent a long time thinking about what I could say about State of Mind. It’s hard to begin discussing this game without saying too much, but I could also ramble endlessly about how beautiful and intr...
The Anix Works in the Shadows to Stoke the Flames of a Movement
Back in August, we interviewed Brandon Smith, the sole member of The Anix, about his musical inspirations and his then upcoming album Shadow_Movement. Now unleashed upon the world in its entire...
“Audible even over the gunfire”: A Review of A Song Called Youth Trilogy
There has been some debate about the nature of politics in cyberpunk. The punk suffix should give it away, but then again, the politics of punk do not form a consensus. Just as listening to any The Cl...
‘All dreams come to an end’: A Review of Total Recall (1990)
Re-watching Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall feels like a breath of canned air from the early nineties. A hulking protagonist, copious amounts of violence, snappy one-liners, dramatically evil villains, ...
Denver Moon: Mars in Monochrome
Denver Moon: The Minds of Mars is the first installment in the universe of science fiction noir, cyberpunk series Denver Moon, the brainchild of Josh Viola and Warren Hammond and published by Hex Publ...
Domain, The Post-Apocalyptic Social Network
There is an outbreak of lethal influenza and people are taking refuge in underground bunkers. We’ve been there before, right? Except for this time, to prevent any form of contagion from the “Sah...