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Techland Recaps What They’ve Been Doing to Improve ‘Dying Light’
Have you caught Parkour Fever yet? If you think you’re safe, you’re not. The epidemic claimed another of my friends this week. She thought she was safe, too. Now she can’t have a normal conversation without mentioning how sweet it was when she found a Skullmace in a chest. When I told her it wasn’t very healthy to play Dying Light for three straight days, she looked at me with her dead eyes and told me that’s exactly what Rais would say.
I didn’t mention it again.
The deeper she gets, the worse her symptoms become. She’s reached a point where she says she needs to play it because that’s the only way she can quell the screams of the Volatiles she knows only exist in the game. She says this, but I’m not so sure she believes it.
I’m going to help her, obviously, but the game just keeps getting better and I’m so close to finding a Skullmace of my own that I can feel it. Techland recently made finding them easier, so I’m sure it’ll be in the next chest I open.
I’d go on about this new video, but the tremors are returning. I need to cave in some zombie heads with the Skullmace I know I’ll find, then I can help my friend with her silly video game addiction.
Dying Light is available now on PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One.
Sam Neill, the New Zealand actor best known for his role in 1993’s Jurassic Park, has passed away this week at 78 years old. In a statement shared on Neill’s Instagram page this morning, the actor’s family said that his passing was “sudden and unexpected.”
Neill had been diagnosed with a rare blood cancer in 2022, but stated the following year that he was in remission. The family notes that he “remained cancer free” at the time of his passing.
The family statement reads, “It is with immense sadness that the whānau of Sam Neill share the news of his passing on Monday 13th July, in Sydney Australia. Sam was surrounded by family and passed with the dignity that has characterised his whole life. The loss was sudden and unexpected but blessed by the fact that Sam remained cancer free.
“They would like to express their deepest gratitude to the staff at St Vincent’s Private Hospital for their incredible care. More details will be shared later, but for now, on behalf of the family, we ask that you respect their privacy as they navigate this immeasurable loss.”
In addition to his iconic role as Dr. Alan Grant in the original Jurassic Park and the sequels Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World: Dominion, Sam Neill left an indelible mark on the horror genre with memorable roles in Andrzej Żuławski’s Possession, The Omen: The Final Conflict, John Carpenter’s In the Mouth of Madness, and sci-fi horror favorite Event Horizon.
Sam Neill’s vast resume in film and television began in the early 1970s and also includes the films Sleeping Dogs, Enigma, The Good Wife, A Cry in the Dark, Dead Calm, The Hunt for Red October, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, Hostage, The Jungle Book, Snow White: A Tale of Terror, The Horse Whisperer, Bicentennial Man, Daybreakers, Escape Plan, and Thor: Ragnarok.
Sam Neill is survived by his four children and eight grandchildren.
Steven Spielberg said in a statement to Variety, “I owe a debt of gratitude to Roger Donaldson, Gilliam Armstrong, Graham Baker and Phillip Noyce for casting Sam Neill in the roles in which he was so brilliant that brought him to my attention and led to his playing Dr. Alan Grant in Jurassic Park. Sam was exceptionally collaborative. It was a stretch for him to play a character who acted as though children were messy and smelly because this was the opposite of the loving father he was to his children. I adored making all the Jurassic movies with him.”
Spielberg adds, “Along with Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, we will always have our Jurassic family and Sam will never be forgotten by us or his many millions of fans around the world.”
Sam Neill in ‘Event Horizon’
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