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New Trailer for Hideo Kojima’s ‘Death Stranding’ Revealed at The Game Awards
A new trailer for Hideo Kojima’s horror title Death Stranding was just shown at the 2016 Games Awards ceremony and it looks MAGNIFICENT! The footage is haunting, beginning with a man who looks suspiciously like Guillermo del Toro running towards a tunnel while carrying some strange contraption. He is hiding from soldiers that are basically rotten corpses with uniforms as well as a tank that is part organic. In the tunnel, there is a small squad of soldiers, one of whom is revealed to be none other than Dr. Hanniabl Lecter himself, Mads Mikkelsen!
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The footage doesn’t show Norman Reedus, although the title screen confirms his involvement. Additionally, the host states that the visuals we’re seeing are in-game graphics running at 4K on a PS4 Pro, which means I’m going to have to get one of those.
Something to note, and this is pure speculation, is that I’m thinking Junji Ito is involved somehow with this game. He was confirmed to have been attached to Silent Hills, so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if Kojima maintained that relationship and brought him on board for Death Stranding. After all, you can’t look at that tank and tell me that it’s not something out of Ito’s twisted mind!
No release date has been confirmed, although Kojima has said that it will be out in 2018 (per Den of Geek), so we have a bit of waiting on our hands. It’s also confirmed to be a Playstation 4 exclusive.
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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