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Sony Reveals Streaming Game Service, PlayStation Now
CES 2014, the annual convention for all things geeky and awesome, kicked off today and from it came news of Sony’s long awaited cloud gaming service. They’re calling it PlayStation Now and it’s slated to arrive this summer. When it arrives we’ll be able to play PS1, PS2, and PS3 games over the Internet on a PS3, PS4 or PS Vita. The service will also come to non-PlayStation devices, like tablets, televisions, and smartphones, so you won’t need a gaming console to take advantage of it.
If PlayStation Now is something you might be interested in, using it is pretty straightforward. You can choose to either subscribe to a plan — the details and pricing of which has yet to be unveiled — or each game can be rented individually. The service will enter beta at the end of the month here in the States.
In related news, Sony Computer Entertainment CEO Andrew House announced they’ve sold 4.2 million PS4s as of December 28th. That’s pretty impressive.
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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