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No Blade Runner from Gearbox

Chased it down but opted out!

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In an interview with OXM, Gearbox Software (Brothers in Arms, Borderlands) has revealed that his company was looking into making a game based on the Blade Runner franchise (originally based on Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"). This is what he said:

"One of my partners, Brian Martell, had Blade Runner on the list. We chased it down and we could have had it. But that one failed on the business side, because the way we wanted to do it we wanted to spend 25 million dollars. And when you do the math on that, we weren't going to make it back."

"You're going to spend 25 million, there's another 10-15 risk just in the publishing process, and then you got another 10-15 million marketing, and we didn't think that we could make that back. So that's too bad."

While it would have been nice to see another Blade Runner game, I'm not sure I would have wanted Gearbox to make it. Not that they aren't a great game developer, but the Blade Runner franchise is something that should be handled with care and turned into a shooter. Oh well, I guess we'll never see what Gearbox had in mind.

No Blade Runner from Gearbox


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