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‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Has Competition in ‘Last Year’

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Look, I get it. We’re all excited for the just-announced Friday the 13th: The Game. Even if we hadn’t waited nearly three decades for Jason make his way back to us at roughly the same glacier pace he employs while stalking teens through a forest, his impressive debut wouldn’t have been as memorable if the team behind it wasn’t so passionate about the films. You might not have even noticed how familiar its concept is.

There’s more than one upcoming horror game that’s inspired by teen slasher flicks with an asymmetrical multiplayer mode in which a group of people find themselves behind hunted by a masked murderer.

About a year ago, a project by the name of Last Year raised nearly $90,000 through Kickstarter with the goal of delivering on a similar concept. The only obvious difference between the two is the Friday the 13th: The Game pits a team of seven against a blade-wielding baddie, where Last Year does that with a team of five.

A month later, the game’s Kickstarter page was taken down citing a copyright infringement complaint that had been submitted by Friday the 13th creator Sean Cunningham.

It’s easy to see a villain in that situation, but there isn’t one. Instead, we have a developer that borrowed a little too heavily from its source material, forcing the owner of that material to protect their creation. That’s it. Now, both games seem to have exciting futures ahead of them — including Last Year, which acquired substantial funding this summer.

Jason’s returning to video games, and that’s awesome. The only way his return could become even more awesome is if he arrived at about the same time as his only real competitor. Both games are expected to arrive next fall, so there’s a strong possibility we’ll see that scenario unfold next year.

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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78

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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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