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‘Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs’ Gets A Release Date
Finally. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs has a release date, and it’s just around the corner. The follow-up to what many consider to be the scariest game of all time will hit PC on September 10th for $19.99, and if you act now you can get it for 20% off on Steam and GOG.com. This gives us less than a month to prepare for the game. Thankfully, most of my preparation revolves around heading out to the store for a few night lights and a crate of Depends.
Next month is starting to look really good. Between Diablo III’s Auction House-free console release on the 3rd, Outlast, which releases on the 4th and A Machine for Pigs on the 10th, September really cannot come soon enough.
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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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