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‘DARK’ Awakens From Its Slumber With An Official Trailer
We haven’t heard much from stealth/action/horror hybrid DARK since its teaser debuted back in May of last year. At the time it looked intriguing, and I’m always saying there aren’t enough vampire games, but the stealth genre is one that’s particularly difficult to get right. That always worries me about games like this, because if the stealth mechanics don’t work well or the AI is dumb, they could take the rest of the game down with it.
We’ll find out when DARK releases on the PS3 and Xbox 360 — hopefully at a discounted price — in Q2 of this year, or somewhere between April-June. Until then, I recommend you check out this new trailer, which features actual gameplay.
Could that Kalypso logo take any longer? I feel like that can be trimmed down a bit.
For some reason I love that one of the media quotes they use in the trailer is “DARK does a lot of things right,” that just tickles me. Like, that’s the best thing they said about your game? Honestly, DARK has ‘rental’ written all over it, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t look like a great way to spend a particularly uneventful weekend. The cel-shaded visuals look particularly good. Anyone interested?
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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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