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Supermassive Games Working on Several Entries to ‘The Dark Pictures’ Anthology
With 2015’s Until Dawn and it’s prequel, last year’s The Inpatient, Supermassive Games’ upcoming The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan should be awesome. What’s even more awesome is that Supermassive Games are apparently working on more than just Man of Medan.
In an interview with 4PDA.ru (which is in Russian, obviously), Supermassive Games managing director Pete Samuels was asked why Man of Medan wasn’t a PlayStation 4 exclusive, as the developer’s previous two games were Sony-specific.
“Well, the relationship with Sony is still excellent,” says Samuels. “We are working on several unannounced PS-exclusives. True, it is impossible to talk about them in detail. In general, I really wanted to present our work to the widest possible audience. That is, The Dark Pictures needs to be released on several platforms.”
Elsewhere, Samuels clarifies the idea that the studio is working on several entries to The Dark Pictures anthology, which is actually not a trilogy. “[M]any journalists misinterpreted [what was said]: they decided that we were preparing a trilogy. This is not entirely true. Right now, the studio is engaged in three chapters to release them within a year. We have plans for the fourth project, we know what we want to see, but so far we have not taken it. There are ideas for the fifth edition, and for the sixth. There are a lot of episodes.”
The rest of the interview covers the making of Until Dawn, which if you’re a fan, it’s a fascinating read (even if it’s been translated from Russian). You can read the rest of the interview from the above link.
The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan is due out for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in 2019.
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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