| Blacklight: Tango Down | |
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| Developer(s) | Zombie Studios |
| Publisher(s) | Ignition Entertainment |
| Designer(s) | Jared Gerritzen |
| Writer(s) | Mark Long, Jared Gerritzen, Ian Stephens |
| Engine | Unreal Engine 3 |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 Windows PlayStation 3 |
| Release | Xbox 360 July 7, 2010 Windows July 14, 2010 PlayStation 3 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
Blacklight: Tango Down is a dystopian cyberpunk-themed online multiplayer first-person shooter video game developed by Zombie Studios and published by Ignition Entertainment. The game was released on July 7, 2010 on Xbox 360 as a downloadable title, and was released on Microsoft Windows (with Games for Windows – Live requirement) on July 14, 2010. The game was also released in late 2010 for the PlayStation 3. The PC version is the one to receive all three patches, where as the Xbox 360 received only the first two patches, and the PlayStation 3 version received no patches, being at retail, launch day version.
Zombie was planning to make Blacklight a multimedia franchise that would include the video game, a feature film, and a trilogy of comic books, however the company became defunct on January 8, 2015. The idea was conceptualized by Zombie executives which later pitched the idea to several film and comic book production companies. The film rights were immediately bought by Fox Atomic to create a film adaptation of the franchise. Fox Atomic's comic subsidiary, Fox Atomic Comics, was also to be creating the Blacklight comics, but after the closing of Fox Atomic, the trans-media rights have been purchased by Imagine Entertainment.[1] The film, comic books, and game will not share the same storylines, but tell different stories in the Blacklight universe at different time periods.[2] As of February 2019, there are no new updates for the film's status, other than that Jason Hall was the screenwriter for the project in 2010, and producer Richard Leibowitz.[3] No film director or cast member has ever been publicly announced for the project, and the film currently languishes in development hell.
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- ^ Faylor, Chris (March 17, 2009). "An Early Glimpse of Zombie's Blacklight". Shacknews. Archived from the original on May 31, 2009. Retrieved October 11, 2023.
- ^ Billington, Alex (March 19, 2009). "Fox Atomic Developing Adaptation of Blacklight Game - Updated!". FirstShowing.net. Archived from the original on October 25, 2020. Retrieved June 16, 2023.