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Pre-order ‘The Evil Within’ for a Fighting Chance
If you’d like to up your odds of survival in The Evil Within, you can do that by pre-ordering the game. Doing so will gift you with a potentially life-saving ‘Fighting Chance’ pack, which includes a med kit, double-barrel shotgun — because one barrel is reserved for peasants who don’t pre-order their games — some green gel used for upgrading Sebastian’s attributes, and special Agony Crossbow bolts in both poison and incendiary flavors.
If you’d like to know why all of that could come in handy, you can read my hands-on preview of the game. My mom told me it’s a fascinating read, and she’s quite the critic.
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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