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A Comprehensive Guide to Budget Cyberpunk Gaming – Part 6
At first, I was hesitant to make a full, standalone article based on online multiplayer games that you can get for free (or next to it) for a few reasons. The first of which involves the conditions un...
The Future Comes Cheap in 2017’s Ghost in the Shell
You likely are aware by now that Rupert Sanders’ adaptation of Shirow Masamune’s mainstay of contemporary sci-fi, Ghost in the Shell, is a bit of a mess. The cast is (unsurprisingly) lacking in ...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 8/4/2017
This last week in cyberpunk, cable networks find themselves at the mercy of hackers, experts show just how insecure people should be about election integrity, and there might be a little trouble with ...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 8/2/2017
Our cyberpunk reality is a kind of uneasy mirror of the hacker crackdown of the 90s, and the cyberpunk fictions of our time seem to be a continuous stream of new iterations of the old. Cyberpunk Reali...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 7/17/2017
First, I’d like to apologize for the late arrival of Last Week in Cyberpunk this week. Technical issues in the form of a tumultuous transition to a new computer setup left me running far behind,...
Evolving into Sentience: Frankenstein, Ghost in the Shell, and The Man of the Crowd
“Such a great misfortune, not to be able to be alone.” -Jean La Bruyere, quoted by Edgar Allen Poe in “The Man of the Crowd.” “Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side.” -Wi...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 4/14/2017
Last week in cyberpunk we saw what happens when a corporation is given a taste of impunity, saw genetic experiments ready for war, and heard a whisper of a Super Nintendo star turning quite violent. C...
Last Week in Cyberpunk 4/8/2017
Last week in cyberpunk we continued our trudge into the cyberpunk future bringing to life many of the things that science fiction writers warned us were coming. Cyberpunk has become a play-book. We st...
Ghost in the Shell Buries its Source Material and Resurrects it in an Entirely New Shell
The Neon Dystopia team comes together to take on Rupert Sander’s Section 9. Ghost in the Shell is one of the most beloved films in the cyberpunk canon and sits happily alongside classics such as...