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‘DayZ’ Heading Out of Early Access in 2018
In what should be a relief for some, Bohemia Interactive’s survival game DayZ is finally leaving Steam Early Access next year. In a blog post on the DayZ website, Lead Producer Eugen Harton explains that while the PC beta is not coming before the end of 2017, further updates and the eventual 1.0 release will happen in 2018, “which is shaping up to be one of the most important years for DayZ.” Harton also stated that Bohemia won’t be ending their support of the game once it reaches that 1.0 milestone. Rather, the studio is treating DayZ as a platform that will be continuously supported for “as long as it’s viable.”
In addition, Harton states that after the beta is reached next year, Bohemia is “committed to bringing DayZ to XBox, where we have a large community of gamers patiently (very patiently!) waiting for a truly hardcore online survival game.” Strangely, there’s no mention of the PlayStation 4 anywhere in the post, which was also one of the intended platforms for the game.
For a game that’s sold more than 3 million copies since its launch in 2013, it sounds like there’s still a lot to come for DayZ. To read up on just what that entails for next year, head over to the blog post here.
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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