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[E3 2013] There’s No Outrunning This Amazing Debut Trailer For ‘Dying Light’
A couple weeks ago, the makers of Dead Island unvieled Dying Light, a next-gen horror game where you’re outrunning the undead. It sounded familiar to anyone who’s played Techland’s other zombie game, and while there are definite similarities, I have to say, I am extremely pumped for this game. If the Mirror’s Edge style parkour running system they promised us plays out anything like what we see in this CG trailer — picking up a wrench at full sprint and using it to crack a zombie’ss skull without breaking stride looks particularly badass — than my body is so ready for this. Trailer after the jump.
Dying Light rolls onto PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One in 2014.
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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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