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Blizzard’s Classic Titles May Be Getting Remasters
I hope you never find out what it sounds like when a grown man yelps not out of pain, but from excitement. There’s nothing good about that strange noise, which I heard for the very first time while I was reading this job listing that was recently posted by Blizzard, the makers of Time Suck: Never Enough Loot and Time Suck II: Never Enough Pylons.
Blizzard appears to be searching for a senior software engineer to help remaster StarCraft, Warcraft III and Diablo II — three of the greatest video games of all time — for modern PCs.
In other news, I’m so screwed.
I spent hundreds of hours in StarCraft, but there’s a solid chance that I’ve spent thousands in Diablo II. It’s the only video game I’ve returned to at least once every year for a full decade after its release. That game shaped me into the demon-slaying badass socially awkward man child I am today. It was my third parent and my best friend, and — sweet jesus, that’s the saddest thing I’ve ever written.
You’ll find the job listing below. I need to go rethink my life for a little bit.
“Compelling stories. Intense multiplayer. Endless replayability. Qualities that made StarCraft, Warcraft III, and Diablo II the titans of their day. Evolving operating systems, hardware, and online services have made them more difficult to be experienced by their loyal followers or reaching a new generation.
We’re restoring them to glory, and we need your engineering talents, your passion, and your ability to get tough jobs done.”
All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply sad to learn that actress Daveigh Chase has passed away at just 35 years old. The news was first reported by TMZ this afternoon.
The outlet reports, “The actress’ boyfriend, Roy Hernandez, tells TMZ … Daveigh died Tuesday from meningitis and an infection in her blood, which caused her to have septic issues and led to her body shutting down.” The website’s report continues, “We’re told Daveigh had been admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles earlier this month because of malnutrition.”
Here in the horror world, a young Daveigh Chase memorably played Samara in Gore Verbinski’s 2002 horror movie The Ring, the American remake of the Japanese horror hit.
Far outside the horror world, Daveigh Chase voiced Lilo in the 2002 animated movie Lilo & Stitch, a character she continued to voice in various animated spinoff projects.
Chase also appeared as Samantha Darko in the 2001 classic Donnie Darko, later returning to play the sister of Donnie Darko in the 2009 spinoff movie titled S. Darko.
Daveigh Chase’s resume also includes roles on the TV shows “Sabrina the Teenage Witch,” “Charmed,” “ER,” “Touched by an Angel,” “CSI,” “Cold Case,” and 32 episodes of “Big Love.”
Chase appeared in the films The Rats, Silence, Carolina, Beethoven’s 5th, Yellow, Little Red Wagon, Transference, Killer Crush, Jack Goes Home, and American Romance.
We send our deepest condolences to Daveigh Chase’s family, friends, and fans.
Pictured: Daveigh Chase in ‘Killer Crush’ (2015)
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