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House Of The Dead: Overkill Is Out Now! Here’s Some Goodies
House Of The Dead Overkill is out now exclusively on the Wii. You can check out all the video I have for it HERE! Check back periodically as I will be uploading more videos to BDTV. You can also check out some screen and art from the game beyond the break.

One level to look forward to as you can see above is the Scream Train. Which puts our heroic protagonists on a speeding train, out of control, on a one-way journey to imminent doom. With Papa Caesar behind the controls, those two hundred tons of raw power are a weapon of mass destruction, filled with infected mutant terror!
Detectives Washington and Agent G will have to fight every inch of the way as carriages, restaurant wagons and sleeping cars teeming with the mutant menace start to explode and disintegrate around them. What’s worse is the disgusting abomination chasing them, tearing the train apart as they race to the engine room. The House of the Dead: OVERKILL uncovers the ugly, terrifying, red hot secrets behind the House of the Dead; the daddy of all over-the-top shooters. While staying true to the classic gameplay this hugely successful SEGA series is getting a new retro look, with distinctive graphics, sound and attitude that will add to its horror cool status. Plus, thanks to the Wii Remote™, players will fight off zombies when they get too close; pistol-whipping jaws off and smashing in skulls with their shotgun butt.
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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78
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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