More cyberpunk stuff should print out pixel dithering on books and comics. It's simply beautiful. Art: Shatter (1985-1988)

Didn't roll into this week expecting Aesop Rock to up and stealth-drop an entire free album, but here we are.

Less CoD, more LSD.

Nine years and three computers later, I've finally rolled credits on the original Deus Ex and can once again show my face in the respectable corners of cyberpunk fandom.

Pinpointing the exact moment Western-style fantasy went mainstream in Japan's a little tricky, but it's most definitely around the time Cindy Crawford started hawking sports drinks by sailing around on a Mœbius-designed monster bird.

Hey, I'm Mary aka Cryo, versatile games and comics artist and for once I'm actually free for work in 2026!! Wooo :) #portfolioday

Marking the return of spooky season in my usual manner: by binging creeptacular Soviet Bloc animation.

Hearty congrats to our favorite Canuck comic compadres on reaching another big milestone! If you're not already a paid-up member of Team Sand, consider this your nudge to get with the program.

Welp, looks like imAI now fully replicates the entirety of the human experience. We had a pretty good run, all things considered.

And now,, to something completely different: a 15mm scale mech inspired by Wares Blade. #miniaturepainting #kitbash #15mmscale #inq28

Happy TekDay, y’all.

Undersong, my Hollow Knight(?!)-inspired tabletop RPG, is out now on Itch and in a shockingly responsible move, I wrote about how it came about over on my blog: hotline.roshirai.com/designer-dia...

While the English edition of Wares Blade is still deep in the vagaries of production, Entropic Dreams - for my money one of the best expat voices on analog gaming in Japan - just posted a nice breakdown of the original 1989 Starter Set.

A final dose of Neurocracy for anybody already missing those weekly Omnipedia content drops - I know I am.

I’ll ‘fess up - half of the reason I‘ve hung onto some of the less legitimate chunks of my game collection is to remind myself of a time when deranged, wildly inaccurate media summaries were the province of flesh-and-blood humans, not burning piles of VC cash.

Spent the weekend with Lunacid, @akumakira.bsky.social's vaporwave-tinged celebration of all things King's Field. It's a less punishing affair than your typical Soulslike, but neatly replicates From's blend of compelling exploration and cryptic puzzles while still finding room for its own quirks.

8 hours left and still going strong!

And that's a wrap on Season 3! A tad bittersweet to be closing out both of my big creative projects for the summer in the same week, but it's been a great run regardless. Huge thanks to Joannes for letting me be a part of the Omnipedia team these past four years - it's an experience I'll treasure.

I don't pretend to understand why but the best looking #hacker magazines are from Russia, XAKEP was absolutely killing it design wise in the early 00s. I'm in the process of uploading scans of issues 21 through to 40 on Internet Archive. These range from about 2000 through to 2002 #hacking #history

Heads up if you're still on the fence about the Wares Blade Kickstarter: there's just over 38 hours left to secure a piece of Japanese tabletop history! The enthusiasm over the past three weeks has been nothing short of amazing, and with almost US$200k in funding, we're headed for a photo finish!

Achievement unlocked! Neurocracy got a lovely mention on Rock Paper Shotgun 🤗 Thanks to @fiashouse.bsky.social for making it happen ❤️

Growing up in the early ‘90s meant coming of age at a time when even the idea of computing was still novel enough to birth explainers like this one.

A rather telling sign of the times. Matt from Mongoose explains a tweak to the "rescue a billionaire" sample adventure in their upcoming near-future RPG. #games #rpg #gooddog

Unfortunately, you can’t paint a truly convincing portrait of our near future unless there’s at least one alpha-fail CEO-type up in the mix.

This comes back to something I've harped on over the years: whenever you get really specific with the things you create, you're inevitably going to see that work sail over a lot of folks' heads. But those who get it? They really get it, and it's a hell of a feeling when they do.

Feeling another one of those “done with reality“ moments creeping up on me.

Since Bandcamp Friday is upon us once again, I'm using the occasion to spotlight a few folks we've had the pleasure of working with on various D&W-related projects. First up: @ningen.bsky.social, who generously gave us the run of his moody, atmospheric discography for Dates & Wires.

8 down, 2 to go! As always, it's been a blast watching player speculation unfold over the previous weeks as the endgame draws ever closer.

In more on-brand developments, Episode 7 of Neurocracy has been released into the wild. Three more episodes remain until the end of this run, so buckle in!

And now for something completely different: Wares Blade, the vintage mecha-fantasy RPG I've been localizing for LionWing Publishing, officially went live on Kickstarter this week - and has been absolutely smashing funding goals from the word "go."

We've officially hit the back half of Neurocracy's third season, and things are only going to heat up from here - hop on while the going's good!

Found myself becoming weirdly obsessed with this bargain shooter ever since I tripped over it during one of PSN's endless cavalcade of sales. Not obsessed enough to actually buy it, mind, but whenever the universe goes badly askew, I now just shake my head and utter "Madness... madness beverage."

Some adorable Yegor fan art by bestscapegoat (www.tumblr.com/bestscapegoat/) 😭 In case you didn't know, I wrote day two of Yegor's route in @cryodraws.bsky.social and @ioblack.bsky.social's cyberpunk dating sim Dates & Wires, which is now on itch (as well as Steam): ioblack.itch.io/dates-and-wi...

After a very extended hiatus, our post-Soviet alt-history dating disaster sim Dates & Wires is returning to Itch with the improved and expanded Augmented Edition. As an added bonus, if you previously purchased the game on the platform, you should be able to grab the upgrade for free.

Time to update those conspiracy boards again - Episode 5 is live!

If some tiny part of you doesn't wither up the second your eyeballs make contact with the words "my wireborn husband," it may already be too late.

It's a new year of Cybercultural, your favourite #InternetHistory indie website. This year I'll be focusing more on the dot-com era (1990s) & the terrible 2010s. This week's post: Multimedia Gulch in 1994, when CD-ROM designers lived fast in a time of slow modems! cybercultural.com/p/multimedia...

Giving this a last-minute bump for anybody who missed my original share. If you're on the hunt for cyberpunk that stretches for something more than just shopworn chrome-and-neon cliches, Gustaffo's your guy.

Been getting some fine mileage out of NTS's curated playlists on YouTube these past few weeks - a great way to dive into some of the better-concealed rabbit holes of musicdom.

Time for that weekly hit of Neurocracy content! As ever, there's plenty of updates, including the start of some intriguing new plot threads...

There's already been a few swings at the "space cops" piñata, with rather more whiffs than goodies. A show about legitimate astroforensics, though? By all means.

Things are generally still on fire pretty much everywhere, but hey - new Cardiacs single.

Here's your shining endpoint for imitative AI in entertainment: no intent, no inspiration, no discussion, discourse or bonding over properties. Everybody just gets to be siloed off in their own little slop vats, living on an exclusive diet of "shows" created by them and for them, and only for them.

Episode 3 is now live! Go nab your weekly fix of Wiki goodness and wish Joannes a happy 40th while you’re at it.

Between this guy encoding image files in birdsong and yesterday's revelation that you can generate a laser from a peacock feather, avian technology's on a real tear.

I'm 71% sure I still have a copy of this kicking around in the basement somewhere. While not perfect, it's an outstanding example of the sorts of experiences we lost once gaming became a capital-b Business and bean-counters started making all of the publishing decisions.

YouTube ads reminded me that this was a thing, so I guess I'm now reminding everybody else.

Just a friendly reminder that Episode 2 of Neurocracy Season 3 has gone live on omnipedia.app, serving up a fresh batch of articles, updates, and most importantly, mysteries. New content will be dropping weekly throughout the summer, so keep checking back!

What perfect album came out when you were 16? No contest, really.

Bastard Chairs is a series of 28 seats found around Hong Kong. photomichaelwolf.com#bastard-chai... Improvised furniture made by street vendors and collected by Michael Wolf.