In Real Life

Blade Runner Superfan Recreates Dystopian Magazines From Scratch

You might think you love Blade Runner — and if you don’t, you should! — but do you love it enough to track down and digitally recreate a prop that most people have never even noticed? This amazing viewer did.


May 18, 2012
Uncategorized

New Blade Runner Movie Is A Sequel, Features Same Writer & Director

While we’ve known for a while that Ridley Scott was working on a new Blade Runner movie, the project got a lot more exciting today with word that he’ll be joined on the project by Hampton Fancher – who wrote the 1982 original – and that this will be a sequel.


February 2, 2012
In Real Life

Blade Runner Replicated By Japan’s Cosplaying Superstar

If you thought cosplayer Omi Gibson could only do amazing Metal Gear cosplays, then you haven’t seen her Cloe Walsh from No More Heroes 2 cosplay. Or her Faith from Mirror’s Edge cosplay. Or her Jill Valentine cosplay.


October 26, 2011
In Real Life

Where Tokyo Meets Blade Runner

Phew. All this video game stuff, especially Battlefield 3 stuff, is wearing me out. Time to take a few minutes to chill, relax, watch a soothing movie where footage of modern-day Tokyo is played to the accompaniment of the Blade Runner soundtrack.


August 24, 2011
In Real Life

How Video Game Deaths Help Us Live

“Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result,” wrote Winston Churchill, in The Story of the Malakand Field Force in 1898.


July 2, 2011
In Real Life

Gearbox Could’ve Made A Blade Runner Game, But It Didn’t Want To Go Out Of Business

The studio behind Borderlands, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Duke Nukem Forever once had an opportunity to make a Blade Runner game. It passed, its founders say, just like it passed on the planned video game version of Michael Mann’s Heat.


October 23, 2010
In Real Life

Deckard’s Gun Costs 900 Caps In New Vegas

We’ve seen an homage to Owen and Beru Lars, now reader Zack F. has found Deckard’s gun in Blade Runner – called “That Gun” in-game – in Fallout: New Vegas. The sidearm has a street value of 900 caps.


November 17, 2009
News

Gearbox Said Nothankyou.jpg To A Blade Runner Game

Here’s a story close to our hearts. Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has revealed that his studio recently wanted to develop a Blade Runner game. A game that, sadly, never saw the light of day.


May 6, 2009
In Real Life

Screenshots From Movie Games You Only Wish Existed

A recent competition tasked the members of the Game Artist Forums with creating scenes from famous movies using Unreal Engine 3.0 and CryEngine 2. The results are dreamy.


January 30, 2009

Any New Info About Those Philip K Dick Games?

Swedish developer Grin might be working with media company Halcyon, who own the rights to the Terminator franchise, on games based on Philip K Dick’s works. We don’t know though — Grin’s tight lipped.