Wake up! There's a new Blade Runner game coming from Annapurna Interactive

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Annapurna Interactive have announced their first internally developed game at their publishing showcase this evening, and it's an all-new Blade Runner game. Exciting! It's called Blade Runner 2033: Labyrinth, and it's set "squarely between" the original Blade Runner film and its more recent sequel, Blade Runner 2049, say Annapurna. The reveal trailer doesn't give too much away at this stage, but I'm getting very big Her Story and Immortality vibes from it. Come and have a gander below.

Right now, the only bits of information Annapurna Interactive have revealed about the game are some dry business facts. Such as: it's being developed in partnership with Alcon Interactive Group, whose parent company Alcon Entertainment own the brand and rights to Blade Runner, and it's being directed by Chelsea Hash, who's worked on a lot of other Annapurna-published games including What Remains Of Edith Finch and Solar Ash.

The third and final neon-drenched factoid I have is that it's going to be set in Los Angeles after the Blackout hits, which is an event in the Blade Runner universe that was fleshed out in the 15-minute anime short film, Blade Runner Black Out 2022, directed by Shinichiro "Cowboy Bebop" Watanabe. This was created ahead of Blade Runner 2049 coming out to serve as a kind of mini-prequel to film, along with two other shorts called 2036: Nexus Dawn and 2048: Nowhere To Run.

Annapurna's press release also mentions that Alcon's Television Group recently announced they were in pre-production on a new live-action series called Blade Runner 2099, which is coming to Amazon Prime. Will 2033: Labyrinth be connected to it in some way? Goodness knows, although it seems an odd thing to mention if it's not.

In any case, that's all