Due to the interest the upcoming game Cyberpunk 2077 has generated, R. Talsorian Games, publisher of Cyberpunk 2020, has reissued the Cyberpunk 2020 P&P RPG.
In the year 2013. Fancy that!
You can get your paws on the rule book for $22 at the R. Talsorian store.
Need a random name for your cyberpunk character? Have a go with this:
http://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/name/#cyberpunk
You can choose male and female names; Chinese, Japanese, Russian or Western names; as well as netrunner handles, corporation names, and location names.
If you want a name that is based on your true name (somehow), you can check out:
http://www.matazone.co.uk/animpages/cyberpunknames.html
http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/8000/#.UYOR0zfiVkg
The last two links output corny and over-the-top names, but if you’re into that, who am I to judge?
Red Thread Games successfully raised funding for the development of the game Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey through Kickstarter. Dreamfall Chapters is the sequel to the award-winning PC games The Longest Journey (1999) and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey (2006).
Dreamfall Chapters is a 3D adventure point-and-click game for Mac, Linux and Windows PC. It takes the player on an epic journey across Stark and Arcadia — two worlds that exist in parallel. Stark is a dystopian cyberpunk world of science and order while Arcadia is that of magic and chaos.
Some special people called Shifters can move freely between the two worlds. Some, called Dreamers, can dream themselves into other worlds, existing in two places at once. One such Dreamer is the game’s major character Zoe Castillo.
Stark suffered a mysterious collapse in 2209. Now, in the year 2220, the shady corporation WatiCorp has released Dreamer. Society is crumbling, with billions of people hooked up to the dangerous machines and hopelessly addicted to lucid dreams.
One of several free-roaming and fully explorable locations in Dreamfall Chapters is Europolis, a large city stretching over the remains of Poland, Germany, and the Czech Republic. This alternate Europe is “a poverty-stricken and thoroughly corrupted wasteland”.
The first two games in the The Long Journey saga were made by Funcom. Red Thread Games has licensed the saga and is independently developing and producing the Dreamfall Chapters without the support of a publisher.
Estimated date for the game’s release is November 2014.
Video credits: Ragnar Tornquist | Youtube
Cyberpunk 2013 (and its second edition, Cyberpunk 2020) is a tabletop role-playing game written by Mike Pondsmith. CD Projekt RED is currently developing the video game Cyberpunk 2077 which is based on the tabletop RPG. Luckily, Pondsmith is involved in the upcoming RPG, so there’s a big chance that the digital game will stay true to its roots.
We still have to wait two years to be able to play Cyberpunk 2077 since it is slated to be released in 2015. The long wait is a good opportunity for newcomers to the game to get acquainted with Cyberpunk 2020.
Kids nowadays are probably new to the concept of tabletop games. There are no computers involved, no gameboards — just a book of rules, some dice, and lots of imagination.
A group of players has been cool enough to record themselves playing Cyberpunk 2020 and post the video series in Youtube. Their videos are fun to watch and the referee (or gamemaster) does a great job of leading the game. Their game actually makes me envious that I don’t have my own group to play with.
Here’s the first video in the series.
Video credit: TabletopTalk / Youtube
I’m not even a fan of Minecraft yet I found this Cybercraft 2077 video by PixelShavers pretty neat. True to their name, they shaved pixels off Cyberpunk 2077′s exquisite teaser trailer If you’re a fan of both Minecraft and Cyberpunk 2077, then this one’s a special treat.
Mars: War Logs is a third-person cyberpunk RPG set on Mars. Survivors of a great catastrophe huddle in slums and are ruled by Technomancer dictators who control the planet’s water supply. The player controls Roy, the game’s protagonist, who is labeled a renegade, and can develop Roy’s combat style by choosing from dozens of skills and perks: pure combat, stealth and trickery or Technomancer powers. The combat system is real-time, players can create and modify equipment, and dialogue choices and player actions will influence the destiny of the people Roy meets.
The game is developed by Spiders Games and published by Focus Home Interactive. It will feature the clash of technology, supernatural powers, and mystical beings. It is scheduled to launch in spring 2013 on Xbox LIVE, PlayStation Network, and PC. Here’s the first trailer for the game:
Recently, Focus and Spiders released a combat trailer for the game, providing a glimpse of the game’s skill tree and some of the powers that can be enabled.
