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New ‘Friday the 13th: The Game’ Content on Friday the 13th; Jarvis Map and New Character!
How is Friday the 13th: The Game celebrating Friday the 13th, you ask?’
Not only are Gun Media and Illfonic unleashing the physical copy of Friday the 13th: The Game on Friday, October 13, but they’ve also just announced this morning that the recently teased Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter map is coming on that very same date!
The new map includes North Crystal Lake and the Jarvis house residence, and The Final Chapter‘s iteration of Jason Voorhees is coming along with it.
Additionally, it looks like Friday the 13th Part 3 character Chuck (re-named Mitch Floyd) will be added as a playable counselor on October 13!
To top it all off, Friday the 13th weekend will be a Double XP weekend!
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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