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Capcom Just Filed a Trademark for ‘Umbrella Corps’
Capcom may be getting ready to announce a new game set in the Resident Evil universe. NeoGAF user ekim spotted a trademark the company registered yesterday for what appears to be a video game or gaming related something called Umbrella Corps. This could mean just about anything, though my pessimistic side is already bracing for a reveal of what I’m going to assume is a free-to-play game. I refuse to let them break my heart again. Not again.
Fans will recognize Umbrella as the uber-evil corporation and reliable source of bad things until their downfall in Resident Evil 4. They’ve never completely disappeared, but it’s safe to assume they won’t be nuking any more cities named after hostile woodland critters anytime soon.
Free-to-play may be too negative of an assumption. This could always be a browser MMO.
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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