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‘Survive the Nights’ Creeps Onto Kickstarter

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The post-apocalyptic zombie survival game Survive the Nights is something I’ve covered here before. I’m not a big fan of games like DayZ and H1Z1, but where they embrace — and to some degree even encourage — a bandit mentality among their players, Survive the Nights focuses more on teamwork to survive. It’s for this reason that I’m actually looking forward to it.

Survive the Nights has many of the staples of other games in this genre, like a massive fully explorable world that’s brimming with the undead. You’ll be able to scavenge for supplies, which you can use to craft weapons, gear, and traps. It also has a deep survival system that will have you monitoring your character’s health, calorie intake, body temperature, and even their mental state. The game cleverly uses the latter to discourage bandit behavior by penalizing those who do kill other players with an increasingly unstable mental state.

Every player you kill brings your character closer to a psychotic break, with the end result of all that player-killing being suicide.

So far, Survive the Nights has raised an impressive £5,579 of their modest £12,000 goal. Get familiar with it in the pitch video below.

If you’d like to help them out, you can donate to the game’s Kickstarter here.

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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78

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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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