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Enter the World of ‘Silent Hill’ With 360VR Videos [Halloween Treat]
The world of Silent Hill is strangely compelling and alluring. The Resident Evil universe feels gross and unpleasant while environments in Dead Space are cold and unwelcoming. But the foggy town that we’ve come to know over more than 15 years has a strange appeal to it that other survival horror universes fail to possess. I can’t put my finger on this phenomenon but I know that I’m 100% guilty of it. If offered the chance to venture into Silent Hill, I may have to say “yes”.
In lieu of that being an actual possibility, YouTuber VJ Ravenlight has created several 360VR videos that are a way for viewers to place themselves inside various locations from the Silent Hill games. There’s Neely’s bar, the Lakeside Amusement Park, Alessa’s classroom, the Heaven’s Night gentlemen’s club, and more. This is your chance to place yourself inside Silent Hill and feel like you’re a part of that phantasmagoric town. Well, if you have a VR set, of course.
You can click around in all the environments by letting the below video go through the playlist one video at a time or you can click around and search through the locations you like by sorting through this playlist.
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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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