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Frictional Sheds Light On Their Next Horror Game With Teaser Site Update, Video
Frictional Games’ teaser site for their next project — a horror game that’s coming to PC and consoles — has seen an update that brings with it a slew of new information including a strange new video that features a woman messing with a big CRT monitor attached to a bundle of cables. I’m getting a System Shock meets SCP: Containment Breach vibe from it now. Definitely creepy, but we still don’t know enough to really make any sense of it.
There’s an image that flashes briefly on the right-hand side of the page with a distorted face and more jumbled text, only it’s significantly easier to make out than that first bit. It’s a quote from Philip K. Dick that reads “It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.” That’s mildly unsettling. More after the jump!
From a newly “deciphered” document called Item 2656 “Vivarium” we have the following:
The machine has the appearance of a heavily modified monitor fixed to a massive nest of cables and controls. Machinist Peter Strasky found the contraption during a salvage mission CORRUPT DATA the screen rolled and flickered, but it shut down as it was pulled out from the container.
None of the crew stepped forward to take credit, but the construction suggests CORRUPT DATA since Thabo is unavailable for questioning, the machine’s origin remains a mystery.
Considering the lack of information and the general unease it has started to cause, the machine will be disassembled.
CORRUPT DATA screen lit up and showed distorted schematics. After trying different switches and keys, the oblique levers were found to be torsion attenuation controls which could stabilize the pict CORRUPT DATA revealing a complex set of instructions. The machine is now under quarantine.
AM Engineer Imogen Reed has asked for an exception CORRUPT DATA Special permission granted.
Not sure what all that means, but it doesn’t get really interesting until you see this:
What. The. Fuck?
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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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