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Black Ice explores how hostile systems radicalize people. You start hacking to get healthcare for your neighbor's 5-year old who was denied because cost of treatment exceeds her "lifetime earning potential". As you dig deeper, you keep finding more injustices. store.steampowered.com/app/311800/B...
Black Ice Trailer 2026YouTube video by Nonadecimal Creativewww.youtube.comI shared some memories about The Matrix Online with @samcomrie.co.uk and mused how there's never been a better time for a new game set in The Matrix. www.pockettactics.com/new-matrix-g...
Black Ice is 15% off in the Steam Cyberpunk Fest. In addition to its 95% positive rating, this trailer demonstrates why you should tell everyone you know to wishlist it and organize against the megacorps. store.steampowered.com/app/311800/B...
Black Ice Trailer 2026YouTube video by Nonadecimal Creativewww.youtube.comThis week's Black Ice update replaced all the enemy textures with crisp neon outlines, added new menus with proper controller support (almost perfect for Steam Deck), and finalized the Arcade minigames. Plus a bunch of bug and performance fixes. Wishlist it! store.steampowered.com/news/app/311...
I'm remaking Black Ice's outdated trailer from 2023 and this video did change my approach. I typically felt we needed to focus on combat montages to the exclusion of story and text but this gave me confidence to frontload a little more lore and character background with longer individual segments.
Derek Lieu - Game Trailer EditorSurprise! New video about basic story structure for game trailers, common mistakes to avoid, and some examples of trailers with great storytelling. This one stems from months of working on a day long masterclass I gave recently in France 👀 Shares much appreciated 😊
The most LinkedIn thing I've ever heard.
Rest of WorldFor $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social
This was a major cause of Black Ice's corporate dystopia. Tech visionaries created a logistics load-balancer to help humanity survive climate collapse but the megacorps figured out how to exploit it for algorithmic price-fixing. Luckily the game's hackers can still find a way to break the system.
Citizen.Coping"Kalibrate Fuel Systems promises that if gas stations surrender their pricing decisions and competitively sensitive cost and volume data to them, the software will enable them to avoid competing with other area stations and to charge higher prices to consumers," the lawsuit said. Collusion via AI.