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‘Alien: Isolation’ Trauma DLC is Out Now
Creative Assembly doesn’t want you to stop playing Alien: Isolation, and they plan on keeping you aboard the Sevastapol through the steady trickling of DLC. The latest addition to the bunch — which also includes Last Survivor, Crew Expendable, Corporate Lockdown — is the Trauma pack.
For $7.99, you can follow Dr. Lingard, the Sevastapol’s Chief Medical Officer, who’s been tasked with destroying research and saving survivors while being hunted by all sorts of horrors, because Alien, across three new maps.
This will be the fourth DLC pack Alien: Isolation has seen since its release. You can watch me play the first, Corporate Lockdown, in the video below.
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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