Editing Cyberpunk v3 (section)

==Development==
In 1998 R. Talsorian Games published the ''Stormfront'' campaign series for ''CP 2020'', which by that point was a well-developed RPG with over 40 published supplements. ''Stormfront'' marked the apocalyptic end of the ''Cyberpunk'' world as we knew it, as a result of the Fourth Corporate War between mega-corporations Arasaka and Militech. The war ended with the nuking of Night City, the fictional stock setting of the first and second editions of Cyberpunk. ''Stormfront'' paved the way for a new, third edition of the game with a new setting, scheduled for release in 2001.

However, in 2000 ''Cyberpunk'' mastermind 'Maximum' Mike Pondsmith was hired by Microsoft to develop video games for the Xbox, keeping him busy and away from tabletop RPG design. In 2004 he also worked for Monolith Productions on ''The Matrix Online'' MMORPG, which was released in 2005. The upshot of this was that although Pondsmith had started work on ''Cyberpunk v3'' as early as 1999, it didn't see the light of day until December 2005 as a PDF e-book, with the print version (with 16 bonus pages) being released in January 2006.