Cyberpunk

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Cyberpunk is a genre based on the exploitation of cutting-edge electronics technology by human society to create Grimdark. The setting takes place in big-ass futuristic cities owned by corporations who rule everything or by technologically-advanced omniscient totalitarian governments, while the rest lives in severe economic inequality in ghettoes or run down industrial sectors. The characters in a cyberpunk are technophiles who are always at least 30% metal and cybernetics/bionics. Some of the most common themes in cyberpunk are gangs of "wired" thugs who use their built in advantages to mug people, vigilante hackers who stumble across engineered viruses made by authoritarian governments to wipe out people they don't like, and there's at least one scene with a fat guy wearing a VR set having sex with a robot or something. Essentially, a deconstruction of traditional science fiction and its depiction of futuristic (sometimes utopian) societies. Technology doesn't automatically make society better because people will still treat people like crap, and is just another means of obtaining an advantage or fulfilling one's self-indulgences.

Notable Cyberpunk traditional games include Shadowrun, Cyberpunk 2020 and Netrunner. Cyberpunk has gotten popular again due to video games, especially Deus Ex Human Revolution, but upcoming Cyberpunk 2077 and Net Runner (made by a fa/tg/uy) also look liable to show the genre well in the sphere of computer-aided gaming. However most of these are what is know as "post-cyberpunk" which plays down the Asian themes (as its kinda hard to see Japan taking over everything after its economy crashed in the 90's and its current negative birth rate) and grimdark a bit (ex your boss in Deus Ex HR is very benevolent and at one point orders you to help him save wounded co-workers first, rather than the normal cyberpunk CEO of screwing everyone else in order to save his ass).