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‘Hellraid’ Isn’t Cancelled, It’s Just on Hold
Techland recently announced that they had made the decision to put their promising dark fantasy game Hellraid on hold in order to focus on their massively successful open-world survival horror game Dying Light, which released this January.
At the Polish games conference Digital Dragons, Techland CEO Pawel Marchewka confirmed to Eurogamer that the decision to put the game on the back burner was a temporary one, and that development on it could possibly resume as early as this fall.
“Right now we want to concentrate on Dying Light,” explained Marchewka. “We wanted to be fair with the fans so we wanted to send a clear message, especially as a lot of the people were expecting new things coming from Hellraid at E3 and Gamescom. We decided to take the pressure away.”
So for now, it’s just not a priority. Seeing as Dying Light has sold somewhere in the vicinity of 4 million copies, I can’t say I blame them for wanting to put it first.
“But putting on hold means we want some of the resources to concentrate on Dying Light, and once they do what needs to be done we will come back to Hellraid.”
That’s good, because I could use something to scratch that Skyrim itch, and judging from this footage of the new-and-improved Hellraid, this game looks extremely capable of scratching it.
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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