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Exclusive Saw Video Game Update!
While we are still awaiting a new distributor for the SAW video game (after Brash lost all of its investment money and went out of business), we’ve got a little juicy morsel of new Intel for you to chew on. According to our sources close to the game, both Dr. Lawrence Gordon and Detective David Tapp are going to be making important appearances.
In James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s SAW (2004), Dr. Gordon was played by Cary Elwes (who was in one of my favorite movies of all time The Princess Bride) and Detective Tapp who was played by Danny Glover. Back in August of 2005 Elwes sued the producers of SAW, which we’re told finally has been resolved. Maybe we’ll be seeing him in SAW VI as well?
I’m hoping sometime in the near future they start showing some screens and game play videos so we can see what this game is all about. Info is pretty tight, but with the games release supposed to be alongside the release of SAW VI, you would hope soon they will release some media.
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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