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‘Until Dawn’ Celebrates Halloween With Secret Pumpkins
The Jack-o-Lantern may be the pumpkin’s ultimate form, but it’s hardly it. There are gourds, or lesser pumpkins, those adorable mini-pumpkins and, of course, secret pumpkins. And we haven’t even gotten to the food-based varieties, such as pumpkin pies.
In celebration of the greatest holiday ever invented by man, Supermassive Games has hidden 11 secret pumpkins in Until Dawn for us to find. The pumpkin update rolls out today, so they should be there, watching, waiting, the next time you boot up the game. To aid you on this scavenger hunt, I’ve come up with an illustration of one of these pumpkins so you know what you’re looking for.
They’re only here around Halloween, so you’ll want to be quick about it. That’s not to say you don’t have enough time to check out this new trailer for the upcoming Until Dawn: Rush of Blood expansion that was revealed earlier this week for PlayStation VR.
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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