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Here’s Your Chance To Recommend A Horror Game For This Year’s FEAR Awards!
Our fourth annual FEAR Awards is coming up, and while I’ve collected a majority of the horror and horror-ish games of 2012, I’m only human, and that means I could have missed something. To remedy this, I’m recruiting you to submit to me any horror (or horror adjacent) games that released this year. Obviously, games like Resident Evil, Silent Hill, and The Walking Dead are already on the list — I’m looking for more obscure titles like indie horror, PC, and arcade games that are easier to overlook. There are a lot of those, and they all deserve consideration this year. So if you have a game you’re particularly passionate about, let me know in the comments!
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In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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