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Bethesda Lays Out 2019 For ‘Fallout 76’
Since it bears repeating, Fallout 76 has had a rough go since its release. Bethesda knows it, and appears to have addressed it with their newly-unveiled Roadmap for 2019.
Broken into seasons, the first update for this year begins with “Wild Appalachia” (which includes the previously-announced Survival Mode) coming in March on a rolling schedule. High-level Vault raids and a new game mode called “Nuclear Winter” will arrive this summer, and “Wastelanders”, which will include a whole new main quest, comes this Fall.
March 12 will bring brewing and distilling into the game, where you can cook up your own booze and drinks in your camp. March 19th will bring a new time-limited event called Fasnacht Parade that allows you to earn unique rewards in the form of festive masks. Finally, Survival Mode will arrive on March 26th.
Things continue on April 9th with a new series of quests called Shear Terror, and player vending, which allows players to place vending machines at their camps to sell items to other players. April 16 will introduce a camera as an in-game item, and May 7th introduces customizable backpacks and a bunch of new quests in Ever Upwards!, which allows you to earn ranks in the Pioneer Scouts.
“Wild Appalachia” closes out on May 23rd with the Legendary vendor known as the Purveyor, which allows you to swap or scrap your legendary items and acquire new ones.
As we pointed out in our review of Fallout 76, the game has a lot of potential, but as we’ve seen, it also still has a bit of work to do in order to really get itself up to the quality Fallout fans expect.
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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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