‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Season 2 Reveals Huge Connection To ‘Cyberpunk 2077’

InnovationGaming‘Cyberpunk: Edgerunners’ Season 2 Reveals Huge Connection To ‘Cyberpunk 2077’ByPaul Tassi,Senior Contributor.Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. News and opinion about video games, television, movies and the internet.Follow AuthorAug 21, 2026, 09:57am EDT--:-- / --:--This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more.Cyberpunk 2077CDPRWhile obviously there is the shared universe between the Cyberpunk: Edgerunners Netflix anime show and Cyberpunk 2077 itself, the third trailer for Edgerunners season 2 has just revealed something huge. A much, much larger connection, this time to the main story of the game.In the new footage, it’s revealed that D, a Nomad Netrunner, has a Relic chip that he inserts into his body. The Relic chip, of course, is the impetus for the main storyline of Cyberpunk 2077, where V inserts the experimental tech that contains the soul, in effect, of a real person. In V’s case, that is the rocker/terrorist Johnny Silverhand. Also in V’s case, the damaged Relic means they are trudging toward an inevitable death, one they spend the game trying to prevent.Cyberpunk: EdgerunnersNetflixThe Relic that D has is not the Relic, despite looking identical, as this is a series of chips, not that there’s a singular one in existence. And if the Relic is here, it is clearly going to be a major plot point in this new season. I am particularly interested in one of the final lines of the trailer, where a character says to D, “You’re a weapon…made out of people?”To me, that implies something rather wild could be happening, where D perhaps inserts a number of different Relics, each with the souls/psyches of stored people. And the type of people Arasaka has bothered to store clearly aren't random civilians.Play Puzzles & Games on ForbesFEATURED | Frase ByForbes™Unscramble The Anagram To Reveal The PhrasePlay NowPinpoint By LinkedinGuess The CategoryPlay Now...