It is past a cliche to level out that video games’ TV and movie diversifications persistently sucked for many years earlier than there have been any good ones, and admittedly, it is getting tougher to keep in mind that time. The most effective examples of how issues have gotten higher lately is Cyberpunk: Edgerunners—or as I like to recollect it, the primary time I puzzled if I ought to reinstall Cyberpunk 2077 (an impulse senior editor Wes Fenlon shared in his impressions).
Should you too had been swept up in Studio Set off’s neon-lit dystopia, you may be comfortable to study {that a} sequel sequence was introduced at in the present day’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles, as a publish on X from the official Edgerunners account proclaims:
💥Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 is in manufacturing! 💥It presents a brand new standalone 10-episode story from the world of Cyberpunk 2077— a uncooked chronicle of redemption and revenge.❓When the world is blinded by spectacle, what extremes do you need to go to make your story matter? 👀… pic.twitter.com/jTMA89N1zKJuly 4, 2025
A press launch from CD Projekt Purple quoted showrunner Bartosz Sztybor as saying “David’s story is perhaps over, however there’s lots extra to find in Evening Metropolis … [it’s] one thing in contrast to what we’ve carried out earlier than.”
You possibly can watch the complete livestream on Twitch, the place the announcement adopted a “behind the scenes” panel that includes Sztybor, director Hiroyuki Imaishi, and voice actors Emi Lo and Zach Aguilar.
Throughout that stream, Imaishi revealed directorial duties can be handed to Kai Ikarashi, who labored within the artwork division on the unique Edgerunners and directed episode 6, “Lady On Hearth.” Imaishi stated within the stream, “We have introduced in some recent faces and are working laborious to carry it to life, so I really hope you may sit up for it.”
Frankly, I’m trying ahead to it, regardless that the present launch window as shared by CD Projekt Purple is “the longer term,” which is terribly obscure. Time will inform if Edgerunners 2 can stay as much as the primary season—which, if you have not watched it, remains to be floating round on Netflix.
If that you must be hitting buttons to get pleasure from your self, you may as a substitute revisit Cyberpunk 2077 itself; it has seen a ton of enhancements since launch and has been genuinely nice since Phantom Liberty got here out, and it is on sale now for simply $21 within the Steam Summer season Sale.