A Blade Runner 2049 mobile game is in the works | Little White Lies

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A Blade Run­ner 2049 mobile game is in the works

15 Jun 2017

Words by Juliette Cottu

Silhouetted figure in car on rainy night, blurred through windscreen, colourful lights reflecting on glass.
Silhouetted figure in car on rainy night, blurred through windscreen, colourful lights reflecting on glass.
You’ll soon be able to play with Ryan Gosling on your mobile device.

With Denis Vil­leneuve busy apply­ing the fin­ish­ing touch­es to his forth­com­ing sequel to Rid­ley Scott’s clas­sic 1982 neo-noir, the film’s pro­duc­tion com­pa­ny, Alcon Enter­tain­ment, has announced a deal with Finland’s Next Games, the mobile devel­op­er behind the huge­ly pop­u­lar Walk­ing Dead: No Man’s Land games.

Blade Run­ner 2049 stars Ryan Gosling as LAPD Offi­cer K, who is tasked with track­ing down Har­ri­son Ford’s Rick Deckard some 30 years after the events of the orig­i­nal film. Giv­en that the last Blade Run­ner video game was released back in 1997, the prospect of return­ing to this world via an inter­ac­tive mobile tie-in is a very one excit­ing indeed.

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Next Game’s CEO, Teemu Huuh­ta­nen, has voiced his desire to deliv­er an ​“authen­tic” game that will be faith­ful to Blade Runner’s ​“unique themes and visions of the future”. This was echoed byAl­con Enter­tain­ment co-founders Andrew Kosove and Brod­er­ick John­son: ​“The world of Blade Run­ner is unique­ly rich ground for sto­ry­telling across a vari­ety of plat­forms, games included.”

For now a still rather small-sized group, this deal is an oppor­tu­ni­ty for Next Game to enter the cat­e­go­ry of oth­er Finnish game giants like Super­cell ( Clash of Clans) or Rovio Enter­tain­ment (Angry Birds).

At the time of writ­ing lit­tle infor­ma­tion about the game’s con­tent, as well as its name and date of release, have been dis­closed. But with the zom­bie gam­ing spe­cial­ists on board, we can’t wait to get our hands on the end result.

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