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We’ve already given out a code to one lucky winner but since we’re just so incredibly generous we’re now giving out not one, but three more codes to download the Escalation DLC for Call of Duty: Black Ops. You see, we’re looking out for you because we understand that $15 is a lot to ask for a map pack, no matter how amazing it is. This way, if you’re one of the lucky winners you can spend your 15 bucks on drugs and hookers, like normal people do.
Joining in on this orgy of free stuff is easy peasy – remember our Premature Evaluation series? Well, we’re looking to replace the games in our meter with your choices, as opposed to ours. So that brings us to how you can enter: all you have to do is comment on this article with the nine games you think should be on the meter, ranging from the best game to the worst. Once you’ve spread a thick helping of your opinion sauce all over our faces you’ll automatically be entered for a chance to win the DLC. The current titles in our Premature Eval meter are the following nine games, ranging from best to worst:
Resident Evil 4
Fatal Frame 2
Doom 3
Dead Rising 2
Cold Fear
Silent Hill 4
Alone in the Dark
Clock Tower 3
Vampire Rain
When submitting your list there’s only one rule: your nine games must be at least loosely considered horror. Now get to it, and make us proud.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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