It’s no coincidence that Neuromancer, one of the most influential science fiction books ever written, opens in a bar. The bar is a safely familiar place to touch the future’s bleeding edge, and the perfect symbol of the cyberpunk genre’s “low life and high tech” ethos. And it’s one of the things that makes VA-11 Hall-A (otherwise known as Valhalla) so compelling.
Valhalla is described as a “booze-em-up” inspired by Japanese adventure games, set in the futuristic, dystopian Glitch City. It’s a Mac and PC game focused on dialog and narrative, but instead of navigating conversation trees, your job is to mix drinks for a cast of cyborg hitmen, 24/7 “life streamers,” freelance hackers, and corporate lackeys for a company run by intelligent...
via The Verge
