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‘Monster Hunter’ Producer Interested in ‘Dino Crisis’, ‘Resident Evil’
When Dino Crisis 2 turned the big 1-5 last September, I asked the Powers That Be to exhume the series from its twelve-year hiatus.
It took a considerable amount of petitioning from the community over a long damn time before Capcom came around on the Resident Evil 2 remake. I suspect any chance we might have at a Dino Crisis revival will be about as challenging, and that’s why it’s nice to see a similar sentiment come from Monster Hunter Online Tao Weishi producer, who specifically mentioned Dino Crisis as a game he’d like to work on in a recent interview.
That could mean just about anything, but the mission right now is to remind Capcom there’s an audience out there for a horror game about carnivorous dinosaurs turning us into people-shaped snack foods, and that’s progress.
It’s also just one of about a half dozen properties Weishi name-dropped, along with Resident Evil, Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, Onimusha and Sengoku Basara.
Come on, Capcom. I believe in you.
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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