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Make The Ultimate Choices In ‘The Executioner’
Indie gaming has given gamers some unique stuff to captivate us over the years, and still continues to do so. The latest to pop up on radar is Moscow-based Lesser Evil Games and their RPG, The Executioner, which recently started its Kickstarter campaign.
The game is touted as a “unique blend of digital storytelling, survival mechanics, and moral decision-making”, and puts you in the role of a man who tortures people for a living, and must fight to preserve his own sanity while doing so. The player must seek a signed confession from those he is about to put to death, and there are many ways to go about getting that confession. Here’s where the moral questions begin: Will you torture a man for a piece of paper to satisfy the town’s judge, or risk angering your employer by saying you aren’t sure he’s guilty? And when you do put someone to death, will you be merciful, or will you give the crowd what they want? All the while, you have to manage your sanity in order to survive.
Set in a town that holds true to ancient mysticisms and the occult, the game allows you your own torture chamber where you study your victims, probe for weakness, and exploit it with a variety of instruments at your disposal. The underground economy holds a market in dead flesh, adding another dimension to gameplay.
With the game’s text-based interface and over 20 hours of story, The Executioner “promises a dark and unsettling atmosphere, and a world filled with moral ambiguity”. Check out the game’s Kickstarter here, and toss them a few bucks if you’re interested (they’re asking for $19,000 in total).
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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