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[E3 2013] ‘Mad Max’ Is Announced, And The Wasteland Will Never Be The Same
I’m sure deep down a lot of you wished you could be as cool as Mad Max. Well you get the next best thing. You get to play as him in his very own video game! Hooray! The freshly announced game will be an open world 3rd person shooter, but it will also focus heavily on vehicular warfare. You’ll spend your time wandering the wasteland in fighting bandits and building the ultimate combat vehicle. The game is being developed by Avalanche Studios, who are behind the Just Cause series. Check out an awesome announcement trailer past the break. The game will be hitting the consoles hard in 2014 on the PC, Playstation 3 and 4, and the Xbox 360 and One.
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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