Cyberpunk 2077 News – NEW City Image & Mike Pondsmith Talks Cyberpunk 2077, Red & 2020!

A NEW image of Night City associated with a spin off Cyberpunk 2077 product, a podcast featuring Mike Pondsmith and what he has to say about Cyberpunk Red, the future of 2077, Robin Williams, The Bozos a New Chromebook and more in today’s Cyberpunk 2077 News Episode!

First let’s jump into some images CD PROJEKT RED &RTalsorian shared to celebrate to new year and the dark future of 2020. Time has caught up with the original Cyberpunk 2020 source material and thus the Countdown to The Dark future has finished, and RTalsorian has shared this picture on their socials! We don’t have biomons and braindances but atleast we have Cyberpunk 2077 coming out soon. CD PROJEKT RED also shared this image of the sourcematerial to usher in 2020 as well as this really cool image featuring what is likely V or a mercenary on the Yaiba Kusanagi. This very Akira or Dredd styled illustration, shared by CD PROJEKT RED Japan.

Moving on we have news that Cyberpunk 2077 will get even more collectible figurines from Sideshow on top of the ones we discussed about in last episode coming from both McFarlane and Totaku. There’s no teaser images of the actual figurines, but we get do get something more interesting for those more focused on the video game, and that is the cityscape in the background. This is very likely official art, as these are officially licensed collectibles, and there is the CD PROJEKT RED logo on the bottom right. I know there;s been a lot of chatter over the size and scope of the map and discussions on if its too small or not wide enough, but I absolutely love the verticality and everything we’ve seen from all the city images so far. I cannot wait to ride the Metro all the way around, and explore all the floors. This image has a very striking skyline, and some really massive skyscrapers and megabuildings.

Next we have a fantastic podcast from BabyBeardMedia featuring Mike Pondsmith. I’ll go over some of the more stand out details, but I recommend you check out the link in the description and check out the podcast in it’s entirety.

When asked what typically starts a new Cyberpunk version, and how Red was initially conceptualized, Pondsmith mentions that at RTalsorian they treat the Cyberpunk Universe as an ongoing story. In comparison to a franchise like Star Wars, he mentions that the original star wars would be Cyberpunk 2013, Empire strikes back would be 2020, Red is a restart f the story line in some ways and that 2077 is more akin to Return of the Jedi.
Regarding what he starts to create first, Pondsmith mentions that the story typically serves the game systems of a table top RPG, but the systems created illiuminate the story. What people are doing in specific time periods, and how they are operating reflect into the systems.

Regarding any supplemental books for Cyberpunk Red, he also reveals Black Chrome, a chromebook that will feature in addition to all the cool technology and cyberware that is apparent in the OG chromebooks, how to use the new environment of Night City and the Cyberpunk world post bombing and post Red. It’s a time where oddly enough, food and shelter is expensive, yet technology is cheap.

Fun fact – Mike Pondsmith is actually an amateur paleontologist, and that he found out Robin Williams actually played the original Cyberpunk, when he left some of his sourcematerial books on the set of Good Will Hunting.
Cyberpunk Red will have new gangs and evolutions and Pondsmith mentions the Voodooboys of 2077 as having emigrated to Night City, andnhave ousted the former Voodooboys from 2020 for knocking off their culture.

He also seems to make reference to Bozos forming larger communities in Red, something that may trickle into 2077.
Mike mentions that in comparison to all other Cyberpunk works from the genre, he thinks the version explored in his work and with CD PROJEKT RED is more fun vs depressing and is a cyberpunk that hasn’t been done before.

BabyBearMedia Mike Pondsmith Podcast – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TRHJGnRGoc