Forestil dig, at den virkelige verden slet ikke er virkelig, men en gigantisk computer-genereret drøm! Hvad nu, hvis du tror, at du befinder dig i det 20. Århundrede, men i virkeligheden er i det 22. Århundrede? Og hvad nu, hvis du en dag vågner op af denne drøm, til en verden overtaget af maskiner, der for at bevare magten tapper energi fra din krop? Hvad er sandheden? Og når den finder dig, tør du så tro på den?
I en nær fremtid bruger teenageren Wade Watts det meste af sit liv i en virtuel verden kaldet OASIS. Det samme gør størstedelen af verdens befolkning. Da skaberen af OASIS dør, efterlader han hele sin gigantiske formue inde i spillet - gemt som et såkaldt ”Easter Egg”. Millioner af brugere deltager i skattejagten, der involverer talrige referencer til computerspil og film fra 1980erne. Men ikke alle følger spillets regler.
Guy er en helt almindelig bankmand. Det tror han i hvert fald, men i virkeligheden er Guy en baggrundsfigur i et videospil. Hver dag bliver han udsat for bankrøverier og ramt af tog i spillet. Og som om det ikke var slemt nok, har spillets ejer tænkt sig at lukke spillet. Nu må Guy træde i aktion og redde sin verden.
250.000 maskiner er ved at bore sig gennem jorden ind til Zion og inden 72 timer når de byen og vil udslette befolkningen. Neo må have sine mægtige kræfter i spil i en fart og han møder oraklet. Agent Smith har fået storhedsvanvid og kører sit eget løb og samtidig forudser Neo i drømme, hvordan hans elskede Trinity dør - en skæbne han for alt i verden må redde hende fra.
Thomas Anderson er en af de mest berømte computerspildesignere. Hans store værk er kæmpesucces trilogien "The Matrix". Men der er noget galt i Thomas' verden. Nogle gange kan han skimte det ud af øjenkrogen. Alt er en lille smule forkert. En dag bliver Thomas kontaktet af en ung kvinde, der fortæller ham sandheden om hans situation. Thomas Anderson er ikke bare Thomas Anderson. Han er også Neo. Og "The Matrix" er ikke bare et computerspil. Det er tid til at tage den røde pille endnu en gang.
Da officeren Colter Stevens vågner fra sin lur på toget mod Chicago, ser han til sin udelte forvirring en anden mands ansigt i spejlet. Otte minutter senere sprænger en bombemand toget i smadder, og vupti vender Stevens tilbage til sin egen krop i en kold betoncelle. Langsomt går det op for ham, at han er på en eksperimental mission, hvor han oplever de samme minutter om og om igen i jagten på bombemanden.
Neo, Morpheus og Trinity kæmper for at redde Zion, den sidste by på Jorden, fra Maskinerne. Men Neo er fanget et sted mellem den virkelige verden og Maskinernes verden – og han har brug for hjælp.
Tron er historien om en ung mand, hvis kendskab til computere fører ham på et utroligt eventyr til det indre af et EDB-anlæg via en avanceret laserteknik. I dette mikrokosmos finder han væsener, der ligner mennesker til forveksling, omend de skal forestille at være "programmer", der af dettyranniske kontrolProgram sættes til at kæmpe på liv og død i videospil-arenaer. Filmen handler om disse programmers forsøg på at nedbryde Kontrol-Programmets dominans og genoprette freden i dens elektronisk univers.
Computertroldmanden Dade leder en lille gruppe hackere, der hygger sig med at lave løjer på internettet. Gruppen opdager, at superhackeren The Plague er i ledtog med grumme kriminelle og er ved at røve en række banker. Og ikke nok med det: The Plague har efterladt en række spor, der alle peger på Dade og hans venner.
Han er ung, rig, ser godt ud og kan stort set få, hvad han peger på. Alligevel synes der at mangle noget i hans tilsyneladende perfekte liv. En aften møder han drømmekvinden og hans lykke er gjort, men noget er ikke som det skal være.
USA i en nær fremtid. Rigmanden Julian Michaels har skabt et resort, hvor publikum kan udleve sine fantasier - også de voldelige og seksuelle - på menneskelignende androider. Ved en fejl opnår et af de kunstige mennesker selvbevidsthed - og sætter alt ind på at hævne sig på Julian.
I en ikke alt for fjern fremtid er det designerne af computerspil, der er samfundets superstjerner... Allegra Geller er en sådan designer. Hun har opfundet spillet Existenz der sprænger grænsen mellem virkelighed og fiktion og går direkte ind i brugernes allerdybeste ønsker og frygt. Men fanatiske modstanderre vil dræbe Allegra. Kan hun nu sammen med sin eneste ven Ted Pikul redde livet? Hvis de to skal leve, må de selv spille med...
Velkommen til Animatrix, en visionær sammensmeltning af CG-animation og japansk animé fra verdens mest anerkendte animé- instruktører. Oplev forløberen for Matrix og få noget at vide om menneskehedens sidste byer, krigen mod maskinerne og menneskehedens endelige undergang. Oplev Final Flight og Osiris, som danner rammen for filmen Matrix, som du ikke kan få på nogen anden måde. Glæd dig til en stor oplevelse.
Den mystiske fortid for en fiskerbådskaptajn, der bor i Caribien, begynder at hjemsøge ham og alt er ikke som det synes at være. Da hans smukke ekskone opsøger ham med et desperat råb om hjælp for at undsluppe sit voldlige ægteskab, afviser han hende hårdt. For måske er situationen ikke helt, som hun udlægger den, for hvad er egentlig hensigten med hendes henvendelse?
De barrierer, som adskiller fantasi fra virkelighed, bliver knust i denne moderne og hjernevridende thriller, hvor to ens verdener støder sammen i et paradoks af bedrag, vanvid og mord. På 13. etage i en kontorbygning har den visionære Douglas Hall og hans hårdhudede kollega Whitney åbnet døren til en fantastisk virtuel verden. Men da deres magtfulde leder af projektet bliver fundet myrdet, bliver Hall den hovedmistænkte. Pludselig ankommer en skønhed fra Paris og påstår, at hun er datter af den myrdede. Hendes direkte og magnetiske tiltrækning på Hall er medvirkende til, at linierne mellem fantasi og virkelighed bliver endnu sværere at finde.
To fulfill his dreams of becoming a legendary Hunter like his dad, a young boy must pass a rigorous examination and find his missing father.
In the near future, a Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called Sword Art Online has been released where players control their avatars with their bodies using a piece of technology called Nerve Gear. One day, players discover they cannot log out, as the game creator is holding them captive unless they reach the 100th floor of the game's tower and defeat the final boss. However, if they die in the game, they die in real life. Their struggle for survival starts now...
Gon Freecss discovers that the father he had always been told was dead was actually alive the whole time. Ging is a famous Hunter: an individual who has proven themself an elite member of humanity. Gon becomes determined to follow in his father's footsteps, pass the rigorous Hunter Examination.
In the year 2138, virtual reality gaming is booming. Yggdrasil, a popular online game is quietly shut down one day. However, one player named Momonga decides to not log out. Momonga is then transformed into the image of a skeleton as "the most powerful wizard." The world continues to change, with non-player characters (NPCs) beginning to feel emotion. Having no parents, friends, or place in society, this ordinary young man Momonga then strives to take over the new world the game has become.
Rakuro Hizutome only cares about one thing: beating crappy VR games. He devotes his entire life to these buggy games and could clear them all in his sleep. One day, he decides to challenge himself and play a popular god-tier game called Shangri-La Frontier. But he quickly learns just how difficult it is. Will his expert skills be enough to uncover its hidden secrets?
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After 250 years on ice, a prisoner returns to life in a new body with one chance to win his freedom: by solving a mind-bending murder.
Stuck in a small Appalachian town, a young woman’s only escape from the daily grind is playing advanced video games. She is such a good player that a company sends her a new video game system to test…but it has a surprise in store. It unlocks all of her dreams of finding a purpose, romance, and glamour in what seems like a game…but it also puts her and her family in real danger.
.hack follows several young players as they navigate the vast, mysterious MMORPG known as “The World” – a place, it turns out, that is sometimes impossible to leave.
A bullied teen receives mysterious help from someone online: a stranger soon revealed to be her recently deceased father, David, whose consciousness has been uploaded to the Cloud following an experimental destructive brain scan. David is the first of a new kind of being – an “Uploaded Intelligence” or “UI” – but he will not be the last, as a global conspiracy unfolds that threatens to trigger a new kind of world war.
In 2033, people who are near death can be “uploaded” into virtual reality hotels run by 6 tech firms. Cash-strapped Nora lives in Brooklyn and works customer service for the luxurious “Lakeview” digital afterlife. When L.A. party-boy/coder Nathan’s self-driving car crashes, his high-maintenance girlfriend uploads him permanently into Nora’s VR world.
Kaede Honjou is invited by her friend Risa Shiramine to play a virtual reality MMO game with her. While Kaede doesn't dislike games, what she really, truly dislikes is being in pain. She creates a character named Maple, and decides to put all her points in VIT to minimize pain. As a result, she moves slowly, can't use magic, and even a rabbit can get the best of her. But as it turns out, she acquires a skill known as "Absolute Defense" as a result of her pumping points into VIT, as well as a "Counter Skill" that works against special moves. Now, with her ability to nullify all damage, she goes on adventures.
Den City is a city with advanced network systems in which a VR space called LINK VRAINS was created by SOL Technologies. The Knights of Hanoi, a group that hacks through dueling, as well as SOL Technologies are seeking a mysterious AI program. Yusaku Fujiki, also known as Playmaker, is a first year high school student who manages to capture this AI program while trying to find out the truth about an incident in the past.
One day, while playing the online game Elder Tales, 30,000 players suddenly find themselves trapped in another world. There, eight-year veteran gamer Shiroe also gets left behind. The trapped players are still alive, but they remain in combat with the monsters. The players don't understand what has happened to them, and they flee to Akiba, the largest city in Tokyo, where they are thrown into chaos. Once proud of his loner lifestyle, Shiroe forms a guild called Log Horizon with his old friend Naotsugu, female assassin Akatsuki and others.
A short, overweight student uses the Neuro Link, an evolution of the Nerve Gear, to escape himself from the reality. But his skills in the virtual world brings him to the attention of Kuroyukihime, a popular student who introduces him to the Brain Burst.
Some time between 'Tron' and 'Tron: Legacy', a young program named Beck becomes the skillful leader of a revolution inside the computer world of The Grid.
Lu Shuiyin (Riku Suigin in Japanese) is a master of gaming, a skill only known to his classmate Lu Lian (Riku Lin in Japanese). One day, Shuiyin receives a device from Lu Lian for a tomb raiding online game. While Shuiyin is excited to receive the device, Lian is suddenly kidnapped. Shuiyin touches the device that was left behind, pulling him inside the game and trapping him there. What is the imaginary world inside the device? What will Shuiyin find there? It is a world where two groups of people fight over the power of the gods, which originates from the tomb the mother goddess Pangu (Bango in Japanese). The two groups are the tomb raiders and the tomb protectors. The device Shuiyin received from Lian is called the Monolith, and it allows a normal gamer to go near the tomb. The tomb raiding group plans its attack by recruiting common people in the name of gaming. Shuiyin, as the final tomb protector, must fight against the raiders in order to save Lian.
The story begins when Berry, an average girl from an average home, meets Hack, a girl who looks like a boy. Charmed by Hack, Berry meets up with the team Hack leads, the Ghost Detectives Club. Members of this club are “socially dead,” working invisibly within the digitally controlled society of Tom Sawyer. As she works with the group, Berry learns about Zero, a mysterious figure who lurks within Tom Sawyer’s underground. She and Hack decide to chase down this figure, and in time, the truth behind the city is revealed...
Takashi Katori is a big fan of online games, and so is his American friend Sarah. However, one of their RPGs goes too far, as their virtual world and the Lezarion robot that Takashi created for the game somehow mix with reality. Takashi is caught, but later the Earth Governement discovers that an evil scientist from the Moon is hacking into virtual worlds and security, so they force Takashi to pilot the Lezarion and protect the Earth...
Clain lives quietly amongst doppels—holograms that replace his parents and friends. Alone on a typical day, he saves a shrine maiden from pursuers and treats her wounds. He’s mystified by her worldly charms, but she disappears—leaving only a pendant behind. When a curious girl emerges from the amulet, Clain’s life takes a chaotic turn as he seeks to unlock the secrets his new friend holds.
