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‘Until Dawn’ Developer is Already Busy With Their Next Game

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Now that the dust has settled and the blood has congealed, the world wants to know how developer Supermassive Games plans on following up their stellar teen slasher game Until Dawn. Will their next project be a proper sequel, some sort of DLC, or maybe even a brand new game with a similar cinematic structure? So many questions.

It’s going to be awhile before the studio is ready to answer share anything substantial with us, so it’s not at all surprising that the Reddit AMA that Supermassive creative director Will Byles and design director Tom Heaton hosted earlier this week didn’t offer much in the way of answers.

With that said, we did learn some things.

“We are already working on our next game, and we think and hope that Until Dawn fans will love it,” explained the dev when asked about a sequel. Still, a reveal is a long ways off. “We are at very early stages at the moment, so we’re not even thinking about an announcement yet.”

One of the niftier features in Until Dawn was its Butterfly Effect system. This mechanic turned the game’s story into a branching narrative that’s entirely governed by the choices and actions of the player. Complex stories like this aren’t new to video games, though they’re rarely done this well. It’s the sort of concept that deserves to be explored further, and it sounds like it will be too.

When a Redditor asked the duo if the feature would return in the future, they more or less confirmed it would, saying “We are definitely looking to build on what worked in Until Dawn, including the Butterfly Effect.”

As for that rumored DLC we heard mumblings about? No comment.

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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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