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‘Wolfenstein II’ Switch Boxart Revealed, Requires Download to Play
With Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus set to hit the Nintendo Switch later this year, Bethesda has not only released the boxart for the game, but has also revealed that you’ll be needing a bit of free space on your Switch in order to play.
As with a number of other Switch games, the boxart reveals that the art features a bar at the top of the box that warns the game requires a download in order to play. There’s no specific amount of free space stated, but the bar does state that you might need a micro SD card. Wolfenstein II isn’t unique to requiring space on the Switch in order to play, as games like L.A. Noire also require space on the console.
Interestingly enough, the folks handling the port, Panic Button, also did the port for Bethesda’s other big title announced for the Switch in DOOM. The retail version of DOOM fit on a standard Switch cartridge (which clocks in at around 32GB), but still required around 13.2 GB of additional downloading in order to play. By comparison, the PC version of DOOM needed a beefier 77GB of space.
Wolfenstein II‘s release date for the Switch still hasn’t been announced, but with E3 around the corner, that seems like a perfect place to make the announcement.
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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