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‘DayZ’ Standalone Boasts 2 Million Copies Sold
It’s official, the DayZ standalone is a popular game. I know, it’s hard to believe, but I speak the truth. This sales milestone is impressive, especially for an Early Access game that’s still very much unfinished. If you’ve spent any real amount of time with the game, you’re undoubtedly already fully aware of the psychopaths that inhabit DayZ.
That fact only makes this number all the more terrifying, because if just .01% of the players in DayZ are psychopaths, that’s still 20,000 of them out there, lurking in Chernarus’ many abandoned buildings, waiting for their next victim.
That’s a lot of people like this guy, this guy, and this guy.
Just sayin’.
Just over 2 years ago the DayZ mod released. Today, the Standalone game just broke 2 million units in under 6 months https://t.co/o4WjnTs8Bi
— Dean Hall (@rocket2guns) May 1, 2014
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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