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People Are Selling PS4s With ‘P.T.’ Pre-Installed
Remember when Konami decided to cancel Silent Hills and we came together for a good cry? I hope that was as therapeutic for you as it was for me, and if it wasn’t what you needed, this story may be silly enough to give you a laugh or two.
Some folks have recently started selling their PS4s with the P.T. demo pre-installed, because as of today, it’s no longer available to download from the PlayStation Store. P.T., as I’m sure you remember, was the “playable teaser” that was used to announce Silent Hills.
Some of the listings are going for as much as $1,500, so the previously free demo is suddenly worth quite a lot of money. If that price tag doesn’t scare you, I’d recommend investing in more worthwhile opportunities, like anything.
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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