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Systems, cities and player agency in Deus Ex, Shadowrun and Cyberpunk 2077.
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Cyberpunk is a question with a neon edge.
Explore the games, films, novels, anime and visual language that make cyberpunk more than a backdrop. Follow the wires from corporate power and artificial intelligence to street fashion, surveillance and rebellion.
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Each guide looks at a different part of the same restless genre.
Look past the chrome
Cyberpunk works best when its technology changes who holds power. The neon matters, but so do the labour systems, private networks and ordinary people moving through them. Use the guides to compare atmosphere with mechanism.