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VR Horror ‘The Persistence’ Gains New Modes in Free Update Later This Week
Fans of Firesprite Games’ The Persistence will be getting a free update loaded with features later this week. In an update posted to PlayStation Blog, The Persistence‘s game director, Stuart Tilley, has revealed that in addition to a host of accessibility features, the game will feature four brand-new game modes.
Currently, The Persistence only has the main Campaign and a Survival Mode where you play through Campaign again using only 10 clones. The new modes in the update include:
- Glass Cannon – You need to make it through 24 rooms with increasing difficulty to get to an escape pod.
- Campaign+ – Your typical keep all your Gear and Upgrades from your previous Campaign playthrough, but are now faced with an ultra hardcore difficulty mode.
- First Blood – A stealth-based challenge mode where you need to make your way through another huge procedurally generated deck to the escape pod, armed only with a knife.
- Permadeath – If you die once during the campaign, that’s all she wrote.
Also available is Assist Mode. Finding the game too difficult? You can fine-tune aspects of the game’s difficulty to help you get through parts of the game that are proving too challenging, such as enabling infinite ammo, auto shield, reduce damage and more.
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Legendary Grimdark ‘Warhammer 40,000’ Artist John Blanche Has Passed Away at 78
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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