Take Gibson's "Neuromancer" and related short stories; the visual kick of "Bladerunner", "Black Rain" and "Akira"; take the format and tangled firefights of Bullfrog's "Syndicate" game and splintered shards of Medieval Japan. The result is ZAIBATSU; roleplaying Japanese cyberpunk. Mean and moody manga. ZAIBATSU isn't watered down cyberpunk, near future elements from the best sources are here: replicants, lasers and cyborgs. All set in Gibson's futureworld: Tokyo gone global. Tokyo. The world's capital, largest, most high-tech, most happening city on Earth. Japanese culture is prevalent in many nations, just as American was in the 20th century. And the players are at the heart of this vast superpower. This is unique to ZAIBATSU, as is the world's retrogenics technology. Forget cybernetics in the traditional roleplaying game sense; with tech out of date as soon as it leaves the production line, no sucker is going to trade meat for metal if his new arm, say, will be redundant in two months. Now, updating the meat, that's something else...
Most of the rules in ZAIBATSU have been left to a minimum. Some may find this disturbing or annoying, but previous experience with other games has shown a distinct lack of atmosphere in supposedly fast combats. Keep combat fluid and verbal, fast and confusing. These are fast, and should be played that way. When you encounter something not in the rules - make it up! After all, that's just what I did in designing the game. The character design rules in particular are brief and to the point. Again this is for speed of play. It is not difficult for the player (or indeed the referee) to memorize the characters' skills since each has only six, with only one value (you've either got it or you haven't).
A collection of cyberpunk emojo - hearts, indicators, icons, and suchlike.
Welcome to N1ghtw1re, a sanctuary for the seekers, the rebels, and the dreamers navigating the labyrinth of the modern digital world. We are an anonymous collective dedicated to empowering individuals to reclaim their privacy, autonomy, and freedom in an age dominated by surveillance, algorithms, and corporate control. N1ghtw1re is more than a website—it's a living hypersigil, a digital beacon for those ready to challenge the status quo and embrace the tools of liberation. Through shared knowledge, subversive creativity, and intentional action, we aim to dismantle the systems that seek to exploit us and rebuild a future where technology serves humanity, not the other way around. Join us in forging a new path. Together, we’ll uncover hidden truths, defy expectations, and reimagine what it means to be free in the digital age.
You are a private investigator in debt. A group of people have showed up at your door with a large cash deposit, and a request that you find their missing loved ones: local employees of the international tech corporation Visual Corp., makers of Visual DOS and other critical programs the world relies on. The police have ignored them, and they promise a large payday on just finding information on their whereabouts. Using your cyberdeck and hacking skills, tackle cryptograms and clues, sneaking around to survive the abandoned offices of Visual Corp and find the missing employees!
Visual DOS 2024 is not a system requirement for playing Integer Overflow.
The Lainzine is a free, not-for-profit zine created (largely) by / for fans of the late-90s anime Serial Experiments Lain and the many relevant communities, websites, and dusty art-projects it has inspired over the last decades. topics covered include "digital life", the intersection of art and computers, cyberpunk themes, programming and opsec, pseudo-religious technobabble, and whatever else people feel like sharing, all presented in a lain-inspired a e s t h e t i q u e format.
If any of the topics above seem interesting to you, have a look at the archive. "production quality" varies a bit, as it's taken a while to figure out how best to present things and make them all pretty, but there's still interesting stuff to read no matter which you pick up.
And, if you like what you see there and have something you want to share as well, please don't hesitate to read the submission guidelines and do so! as a free community project, the lainzine is what people make of it, with those people being anyone at all who feels some sort of affiliation with lain and the many things the name has come to mean. so don't feel like your work or ideas don't belong just because they differ a bit from what's been in past zines. we're all connected, after all.
A wiki and fandom news source about the series Serial Experiments Lain.
What happens when the world's first superheroine shows up 200 years after the end of the world?
Kamikaze is a weekly scifi webcomic and animated series concept by Moving Ink Media. A new page every Wednesday, since 2014!
Explore the cyberpunk world with these vibrant and futuristic color palettes created by Ramses Revengeday. Copy the color codes with a click and bring your digital creations to life.
Hello visitors! Present punk is the idea that we are either currently living in a cyberpunk dystopia, or that we are transitioning into one.
The first purpose of this blog is to curate a collection of all the news stories today that prove this idea, from the latest corporate takeovers to the newest tech innovations.
The second purpose is to reckon with dystopia becoming true, and probe more deeply into the why’s and the what-can-we-do’s.
A personal website that bills itself as unix_surrealism.
Science fiction, cyberpunk, and generally geek-related shirts and accessories.
NEUROBLAST HyperCard DiskZine Cyberdelia Special is a cyberpunk-centric and HACKERS (1995) love letter entertainment tech-stack zine of music, art, and game materials, built and compiled in ancient Apple HyperCard software on a vintage iMac G3 (grape) in August 2023. Made in celebration of DNA Lounge's HACKERS screening and Cyberdelia after-party. Editor: James Sime.
CYBERDELIA - A massive, sprawling, Floppy Disk-bursting article and orgasmic dither-picture-show featuring years of Cyberdelia celebrations at San Francisco's legendary DNA LOUNGE. Including delightfully 1-bit memories of Cyberdelia's creation and the herculean effort to bring these parties to the public. Written by NEUROBLAST's featured special guest... promoter, programmer, and SF Bay Area icon jwz / Jamie Zawinski the owner of DNA LOUNGE.
The CORTEX IMPLANT community was created on Mastodon as an international, cyberpunk-inspired, LGBTQIA+ friendly space for edgerunners, netrunners, cyberpunks, and anyone else who wants to join the community.
The CORTEX IMPLANT community is built on the Fediverse platform, which is a decentralized network of interconnected communities and individuals who share their interests, experiences, and thoughts with one another. The Fediverse allows users to communicate and interact with each other through a variety of applications and protocols, providing a rich and diverse online environment for people to connect and engage with one another.
As a cyberpunk-inspired community, the CORTEX IMPLANT community is focused on the themes, ideas, and aesthetics of the cyberpunk genre, including advanced technology, hacking, and artificial intelligence. The community is open to people of all genders, sexual orientations, and backgrounds, and provides a safe and inclusive space for its members to explore their interests and express themselves.
Neotropolis is an immersive sci-fi and cyberpunk-themed event that is part music festival, part desert campout, and part LARP from the godfathers of fully immersive festivals, Wasteland World.
A unique hybrid event, the 5-day festival included live bands, quest missions, DJs, laser tag battles, retro gaming, hacking, camping, bartering and selling of themed goods, sideshows & burlesque, tricked-out art cars, robot battles, costume contests, fully immersive interactive games, and much, much more.
The cyberpunk world encompassed acres of beautiful land in the Mojave Desert (that is owned by the organizer’s company Wasteland World) including indoor and outdoor spaces, and enough neon to light up the desert for miles. For 2023, the event’s official entertainment lineup included Night Club, Megatronix, Night Rider 87, Let Em Riot, Starfarer, Nuda, Eclectotron, as well as The MxSFxT and Dayne The Gr8.
The streets and the Corporations that run them are your only friends. Your identity is everything. Your reputation is the social currency controlling what schools you can attend, the cars you can buy, where you live, and—most importantly—who you work for. All of this is controlled by your C.H.I.P., an embedded device linked to your DNA. Your entire life on a small data card in your arm.
IDENTECO is a tabletop roleplaying game where you and your friends tell stories in a near-future science fiction alternate universe. The world has been thrown into social, economical, and political upheaval after a near catastrophic event that has remade the power structures around the world. To survive you must navigate the often dangerous streets and politically-charged boardrooms of Corporate America to achieve your goals. Out here, it's as much about who you know as what you know.
IDENTECO is built with an easy-to-understand dice system that is equally engaging for roleplay- or combat-heavy groups. The system promotes and rewards active engagement from players—no sitting around waiting for something to happen. You have actions you can take at any time. So get out there and have fun.
As a musician based in Berlin, I have taken my inspiration from the Cyberpunk 2020 roleplaying game books and translated them into a unique blend of music and art. My goal is to create an immersive world that captures the dark, gritty atmosphere of a futuristic metropolis.
With Night City Café, I have created a musical and visual experience that transports the listener into the neon-lit streets of a technologically advanced city. The project invites the audience to explore a world filled with shady characters and cutting-edge technology.
As a lover of the cyberpunk genre, I wanted to create something that truly captured its essence. Through my music and art, I aim to showcase the captivating and terrifying world of Night City Café. I hope you will join me on this immersive journey as we explore the depths of this futuristic world.