A few years back, Sin Vega jacked into cyberpunk vampire game Bloodnet. Much as our understanding of Christmas is rooted heavily in Dickens and Victorian England, to me the spirit of Cyber Monday is in the 90s. So here’s Alex Wiltshire looking at the making of Hypnospace Outlaw’s 90s Internet in The Mechanic. And if you like that, you’ll enjoy Alice Bee’s look at some great ASCII art in video game guides. Rocketing into the future of cyberspace, Karen Gillan wrote about System Shock and Shodan, the girl who wanted to be god. And Alex Wiltshire’s chat with Zach Barth about hacking game Exapunks namechecks the quintessential Cyber Monday film: Hackers. Not to boost my own webring, but my adventures in reading readme files are key to my own enjoyment of cyberspace. And absolutely I have enjoyed revisiting old Winamp skins in the Winamp Skin Museum. Do visit the Malware Museum too. If you need something to play with your collective tonight, I did have some cyberpunky game recommendations after Cyberpunk 2077 was delayed again. I still stand by these, especially Dog Of Dracula 2-a game which deserves to be a Cyber Monday classic, played every year after dinner with the collective. Don’t forget that for Cyber Monday 2018, those corporate worms coughed up some creds to commission some cyber-articles for the celebrations. Topics covered include the best hacking games, the worst hacking minigames, and horny cybervisual novel Hardcoded. And what to watch with the family during dinner? It’s maybe a little vintage for some, but put this bad boy on loop.
