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Moon Being Written By James McDonough and Adam Patyk (Hellboy, Transformers)!
Mastiff and Renegade Kid have announced that they have joined up with James McDonough and Adam Patyk, who have worked on such films as Hellboy and Transformers. They will help with the writing of the Moon storyline, to help give it more of a dark feel to it.
“Working on Moon has been an absolute blast,” said writer Adam Patyk. “The fantastic gameplay and striking graphics are some of the first things you notice about the game, and that played a big role in why we were so excited when Mastiff asked us to get involved in helping to refine the characters and story for Moon.”
The game takes place on the Moon in 2058, and you taker on the role of Major Kane who is a part of the Extra Terrestrial Encounter Organization. He was called to check out the newly built “Lunar Base Alpha” because they found some sort of a hatch pod basically stuck in the Moon. The game us a 1st person shooter, and you can look out for it on the Nintendo Ds in November.
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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