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E3 2012: Call Of Duty: Black Ops II Welcomes You To The Future With Open Arms
With a series like Call Of Duty, you really have to step things up from game to game to keep things fresh. With a game being released every year the series can get stale fast. So Treyarch is bring you the the future in Blops II and I couldn’t be more excited. It actually looks like they are doing quite a bit of re-hauling to set the game apart from past Call Of Duty games. A big part of that at least for me is zombies mode is definitely making a big comeback. Head past the break to see a behind the scenes video to show you what it’s all about.
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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