Blade Runner Owners Are in Talks for a Triple-A Video Game
The people behind the Blade Runner franchise are in talks about a large, high-budget video game. Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson, the executive producers of the upcoming Blade Runner 2099 and co-CEOs of Alcon Entertainment, said so in an interview with IGN, as Eurogamer reported.
The game would be aimed at what the industry calls triple-A, the label for big-budget productions from major publishers. The project is still in talks. It is not in active development.
Alcon Entertainment, based in Los Angeles, owns the Blade Runner intellectual property, meaning the characters, stories and world. The company develops and produces films, television, video games, music and books. Its current screen project is Blade Runner 2099, a TV miniseries for Amazon Prime Video that continues the story of Blade Runner (1982) and Blade Runner 2049 (2017). It is set to release on Prime Video on 25 November.
The franchise has been in games before. The 1997 Blade Runner game, developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Interactive, was a point-and-click adventure. Players moved through scenes by clicking on objects and people to look, talk and solve puzzles. An Enhanced Edition followed in 2022.
A more recent entry has had a rougher path. In 2023, Annapurna Interactive unveiled Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, the first game the publisher had made in-house. It was planned for PC and consoles and set in Los Angeles after the Blackout, the event that falls between the first film and Blade Runner 2049.
Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth has now been removed from Annapurna's website and delisted from Steam, the PC storefront run by Valve. A delisting means the game no longer appears for new purchase on that store. Anyone who already owns a copy is not affected by that step alone.
For fans, the next dated item on the calendar is the Prime Video premiere of Blade Runner 2099 on 25 November. The triple-A game remains a conversation, with no launch plans on the table yet.
