Tag: video games

THE MATRIX: Resurrections (12.21.21) Aims to Continue The Cyberpunk Critique of Technology Saturated Culture From a Vantage of Philosophically Provocative Humanism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpvWBuTfrc&t=38s "It's so easy to forget how much noise the Matrix pumps into your head. Something else makes the same kind of noise. ...War." A quote from a time-shattered reality version of the character from the sequels - Niobe, which makes me feel like the sequels are recognizing how much technology now... means 'the media-industrial … Continue reading THE MATRIX: Resurrections (12.21.21) Aims to Continue The Cyberpunk Critique of Technology Saturated Culture From a Vantage of Philosophically Provocative Humanism

Pornography and Video Game Enthusiasts Warn Josh Hawley Is A Threat to Our Future As A Lure For Men Who Do Not Have the Virility to Avoid Right Wing Politics

Right Wing CryptoFascist and Violent Corporate Anti-Humanist Josh Hawley Seeks to Lure Men Into Populist Misogyny Party the GOP, Away from the Mainstream Path of Pornography and Video Game Culture

CYBERPUNK AS REBEL SPIRIT – This Halloween Heading Into A Dark Winter – Witch, You Best Show Some HERETIC PRIDE

This was actually written LAST FUCKING YEAR but was not published with the site I wrote it for (Cyberpunks.com) unfortunately. It was around the time the Cyberpunk 2077 video game came out and is my thoughts on fostering a culture of cyberpunk that includes people who come to the genre as beginners and those who … Continue reading CYBERPUNK AS REBEL SPIRIT – This Halloween Heading Into A Dark Winter – Witch, You Best Show Some HERETIC PRIDE

Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories – From Wired Magazine

Are you game? See How Homer, Faulkner, and Ibsen can help. CINDY FRENKEL CULTURE 02.25.2021 07:00 AM “THE LANGUAGE I’VE invented is pronounced with the same phonetics as Latin,” explained Justin Harlan, my 21-year-old student. He was doing a presentation on his video game Ordenai, which was so outstanding that it left my boisterous class speechless.  This … Continue reading Teaching Classic Lit Helps Game Designers Make Better Stories – From Wired Magazine

Valve Founder Says Brain-Computer Interfaces Could One Day Replace Our ‘Meat Peripherals’ – From Kotaku.com

In an interview with New Zealand’s 1 News, Valve co-founder and president Gabe Newell talks about engineering a future where brain-computer interfaces create better-than-reality visuals and can actively edit who we think we are. You know, terrifying science-fiction stuff, only real.Why use your eyes and ears—which Newell sinisterly refers to as “meat peripherals”—to experience a game when … Continue reading Valve Founder Says Brain-Computer Interfaces Could One Day Replace Our ‘Meat Peripherals’ – From Kotaku.com

ROSE & TIME: A Neat Video Game From Indie Buskers Game Jame Based On An Idea I Submitted – Travel Through Time While Avoiding Paradoxes

I submitted the idea for a game where a character must use stealth tactics to avoid encountering past and future versions of themself traveling through time. This was years ago but I looked it up again today. Unfortunately it only has my old net-handle attached 'The Neon Heart'. Oh well. I am glad to have … Continue reading ROSE & TIME: A Neat Video Game From Indie Buskers Game Jame Based On An Idea I Submitted – Travel Through Time While Avoiding Paradoxes

Wired Magazine: A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn’t Surprised By Its Comeback

A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn't Surprised By Its Comeback Mike Pondsmith, who wrote the tabletop RPG that inspired Cyberpunk 2077, explains why the genre feels vital in 2020. CYBERPUNK—THE GENRE, NOT just the video game—is back. Altered Carbon and Westworld were hits, there’s a new Matrix movie in the works, and Cyberpunk 2077 is poised to be the year’s most successful, and most hyped, video … Continue reading Wired Magazine: A Founding Father of Cyberpunk Isn’t Surprised By Its Comeback

Wired Magazine: Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction

GEORGE YANG CULTURE12.08.2020 06:16 PM Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction Cyberpunk as a genre, and Cyberpunk 2077 the game, are both rooted in a type of other-ization that can’t be ignored—but it can be examined. 2020 HAS BEEN one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory, but at least, in a few days, … Continue reading Wired Magazine: Orientalism, Cyberpunk 2077, and Yellow Peril in Science Fiction

Wired Magazine: Cyberpunk 2077 Revives the Dystopian Fears of the 1980s

Putting aside the game's bugs and issues, the underlying themes speak to the fears and worries of a time gone by—not that we've moved past them all. STEP OUT ONTO the streets of Night City, Cyberpunk 2077’s futuristic vision of a dystopian Californian metropolis, and very little looks immediately familiar. The city’s buildings have been replaced with … Continue reading Wired Magazine: Cyberpunk 2077 Revives the Dystopian Fears of the 1980s