OFF-WORLD NEWS DIGEST | VOL. VII, No. 9

Welcome to another edition of the OFF-WORLD NEWS Digest.

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In the news ...

• It's the twentieth anniversary of the Westwood Studio's PC game, Blade Runner. Released in 1997, the game was advertised as "the first real-time adventure game". The story featured "Blade Runner" Ray McCoy searching for Replicants in Los Angeles in the year 2019.

* How the Blade Runner game ensured players never knew who to trust
* Returning to Westwood's Blade Runner
* Blade Runner: When Westwood dreamt of electric sheep
* Future Noir Adventuring with Blade Runner

• 'Blade Runner 2049' bombs in China. The Sony/Alcon Entertainment production, which has earned just under $200 million worldwide ($77m of that in North America courtesy of Warner Bros./Time Warner Inc.), bombed in its first day of release in the second-biggest moviegoing market in the world. The $150m+ sci-fi sequel, which debuted to rave reviews but indifferent box office earlier this month, earned just $2.4m on Friday. That means, offhand, that we’re looking at a $7m-$8m weekend and $15m-$20m total in China. More HERE.
• Blade Runner 2049 was originally 4 hours long? More HERE and HERE. 

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Now for some articles, art, videos, podcasts, music, and some miscellaneous!

Articles:

• I Think Replicants Ate Rick Deckard's Dog in Blade Runner 2049
• The hidden feminist message buried inside 'Blade Runner 2049'
• Are Audiences Too Lazy to Appreciate Blade Runner 2049?
• The Poetry Of BLADE RUNNER 2049
• Rian Johnson & Denis Villeneuve Talk ‘Blade Runner 2049’ in Spoiler-Filled Conversation
• The best thing about Blade Runner 2049 is what it isn’t
• Blade Runner 2049’s politics resonate because they are so perilously close to our own
• Why You Shouldn't Expect to See 'Blade Runner' Replicants Anytime Soon
• ‘Blade Runner 2049’ is about learning that you’re not the main character in your own story
• 7 Reasons Why “Blade Runner 2049” is a Masterpiece
• How Blade Runner 2049 Was Able to Pull Off That One Incredible Cameo
• Blade Runner 2049’s sound team explains how they created the movie’s best scene
• Designing the technology of ‘Blade Runner 2049’
• Meet the amateur scientists behind Blade Runner 2049's unique dystopian future
• Blade Runner’s Immaterial Girls
• Repli-Can't: The Lesson Hollywood Won't Learn From Blade Runner 2049
• The Unlikely Inspiration Behind Blade Runner 2049’s Futuristic Design
• Blade Runner 2049: Richard Hoover – VFX Supervisor – Framestore
• Life After Empathy: On Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner 2049

Art:

by Timba Smits

Blade Runner 2049: The Game
Pixel art tribute in retro game style, by PIXEL JEFF

Blade Runner 2049 - Memory Orb, by Mike Hill

Videos:

In this exclusive video profile is featured the sound team behind Director Denis Villeneuve's, Blade Runner 2049 featuring supervising sound editor Mark Mangini, sound designer Theo Green, re-recording mixer Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett, picture editor Joe Walker and Composer Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch.

Podcasts:

Music:

Miscellaneous:

One of Adam Savage's favorite purchases at New York Comic Con

Deckard’s Dream -- an 8-voice polyphonic analogue synthesizer inspired by a certain cinematic sound from the late 1970s and early 1980s. 

Kojima Dreams of 'Blade Runner' -- The original 'Blade Runner' deeply impacted the game designer and directly inspired his game 'Snatcher'

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~Kipple 

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