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‘Layers of Fear: Inheritance’ Gets a Launch Trailer
Bloober Team’s genuinely psychedelic horror game will get a much-needed epilogue chapter next week with the arrival of its first story DLC, Layers of Fear: Inheritance, on August 2. Where the main game followed an exceptionally talented alcoholic’s rapid descent into madness, the DLC will revolve around his daughter as she comes home to face her past and potentially find forgiveness for her father.
The answers to the burning questions I still have about this miserable cast of people won’t stay hidden from me for long, and I suspect they won’t paint a pretty picture when they are finally exhumed. It’s worth mentioning that there are two possible endings to Inheritance, so it’s entirely possible that one of them would qualify as the “good” one.
If for whatever silly reason you haven’t embraced your painterly side yet, you can fix that with the Layers of Fear: Masterpiece Edition before anyone finds out. The bundle includes the base game, the DLC and the peace of mind that comes from knowing you did the right thing.
Layers of Fear: Inheritance will cost $4.99 when it hits PC/Mac/Linux, Xbox One and PS4 on Aug 2. The studio’s next title, the cyberpunk horror FPS game Observer, releases sometime in 2017.
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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