Video Games
‘Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition’ Announced by Nightdive Studios
Nightdive Studios are once again resurrecting a blast from the past. According to a story from the Hollywood Reporter, the studio behind the upcoming System Shock remake (and several restorations of classic games) has partnered with Alcon Entertainment to bring back Westwood Studios’ 1997 point-and-click adventure game, Blade Runner!
The restored version of the game, known as Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition, is being developed for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch, as well as PC via Steam. It’s expected to be released later this year.
The game, based on the Ridley Scott classic film, but not a direct adaptation, follows detective Ray McCoy as he hunts down renegade replicants. Blade Runner earned critical praise upon its release, and actually won the first Adventure Game of the Year award at the Academy of Interactive Arts & Science’s first DICE Awards.
Blade Runner: Enhanced Edition will feature a “polished and premium restoration” from Nightdive Studios via the company’s proprietary KEX game engine, which it has used to restore Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and System Shock. The game will feature updated character models, animations and cutscenes, as well as widescreen resolution support, keyboard and controller customization and more.
“Blade Runner is still a jaw-dropping achievement on every level, so while we’re using KEX to upgrade the graphics and respectfully elevate the gaming experience in a way you’ve never seen before, we’re still preserving Westwood’s vision and gameplay in all its glory,” says Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick. “While you can enjoy the benefits of playing the game on modern hardware, the game should look and feel not as it was, but as glorious as you remember it being.”
Video Games
‘The Backrooms’-Inspired Horror-Adventure Game ‘The Bathrooms’ Arrives May 17th [Trailer]
The Backrooms internet phenomena (which has been capitalized upon in video game and soon in film form) is still ripe for picking. Developer/publisher Hidden Palace has their own inspired take coming later this month with The Bathrooms, which is set to arrive on Steam on May 17th. As you’d expect, you’ll be exposed “a plethora of strange, unexplainable occurrences and unnatural irregularities that are typically not fully understood.”
The story goes that you wake up near a foggy, deserted school with no memory of what happened. You soon discover that your beloved dog Shibosu has gone missing, having been kidnapped by the Custodian. You must now brave the realm of cold, endless halls to find him, with the hard part then being to escape the nightmare using your wits and skill. Complicating matters is that you discover that you’re being hunted by strange entities all the while. Not to mention the custodian.
The Bathrooms features a procedurally-generated world with nonlinear gameplay, meaning that no two games will ever be the same. You can choose to face your foes head-on with a weapon if you are brave, or choose a stealthier approach to avoid confrontation. Your survival in this nightmarish dreamscape depends on you having optimum “copium” levels. Inhale regularly and keep your copium tank full, or face an instant demise.
As you might expect, you’ll have to find ways to obtain copium in order to progress. Along the way, you may ponder your orb, a magical seeing stone with mystical revelations guiding you towards your goals, and sometimes warning you of danger. Use it wisely.
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