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‘Visage’ Wants to Show You “True Terror”
Move over Allison Road, there’s a wicked new P.T. successor coming our way and it knows how to make a lasting first impression. SadSquare Studio has launched the Kickstarter campaign for their promising new first-person horror game Visage, which they’ve paired with twelve minutes of footage to give us a taste of its slow-burn terror and shit-out-your-spine jump scares.
Set inside a centuries-old house that’s spent an alarming portion of its existence as an active crime scene, Visage promises to “mess with your mind in such a believably realistic house that when you stop playing, you’ll probably fear your own peaceful house.”
Your main objective over the course of the game’s 6-8 hour single-player campaign is to investigate what is very obviously an ancient and unknowable evil that’s spent hundreds of years killing people. The horror doesn’t seem to be confined to the aforementioned murder manor, as it will “take you to places so twisted that you’ll feel like coming back to the house is actually a good idea.”
A totally doable $24,550 is what SadSquare is looking to raise on Kickstarter so they can release the game on PC in early January 2017. For $45,000, they’ll also bring it to the PS4 and Xbox One, and another $5,000 will get us virtual reality support.
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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78
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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