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‘Dying Light: The Following’ is ‘Mad Max’ With Zombies
2015 was a transformative year for Techland’s zombie genocide simulator Dying Light. The game has evolved, gradually, via incremental updates that have introduced new features, content and additional polish, as well as paved the way for the epic story expansion that is The Following.
On February 9, Dying Light will get a huge new map and story campaign in its most ambitious DLC to-date. The Following will effectively double the size of the original game, and while that’s certainly exciting, it’s not quite as exhilarating as outfitting a weaponized dune buggy with flamethrowers and spiky bits so you can haul ass into a sea of walking corpses to see what it’d look like if Leatherface got angry with a platter of cherry Jell-O.
If you told me you weren’t excited to do that, I wouldn’t believe you.
I might understand your not matching my level of pumped-up-edness, and that’s okay. We can fix you. All you need is for me to properly explained just how extremely awesome these zombie murder buggies are going to be. Dying Light is treating them like the weapons they very obviously are by giving us the ability to customize our dune buggy with paint jobs, bobbleheads, charms, flamethrowers, electrical cages, UV bubbles, spiked ramming bars and remote explosives.
There will be blueprints to collect, new parts to find — like better engines — and they’re even introducing a new Driver skill tree so you can maximize your road rage potential.
Dying Light: The Following releases on Feb 9 for PC, PS4 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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