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‘Alien: Isolation’ Will Make The Alien Scary Again
With Alien: Isolation, one of developer Creative Assembly’s goals is to make the alien scary again. Its efficacy as an object of terror has been watered down over the years, mostly thanks to the numerous games in the series (Colonial Marines, AvP) that have thrown waves of the bugs at the player to be easily squashed. Those days are over.
Isolation features a lone, solitary xenomorph. It’s also huge and intelligent. Learn more about this beast after the break.
This game made our list of 2014’s most anticipated horror games for a reason. It looks terrifying.
Alien: Isolation arrives later this year for PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4.
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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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