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Zombie-Based Survival RTS ‘They Are Billions’ Gets a Campaign Mode, Console Releases
While still in Early Access (though not for much longer), Numantian Games have announced that their real-time strategy game They Are Billions will be getting its long-awaited Campaign Mode.
“The New Empire” will be launching on June 18, and will have players trying to found new colonies in the lands that have been ravaged by the zombie hordes. Swarms of infected roam the countryside and it is part of your mission to take these hordes out. Doing so will help protect those colonies that you’ve managed to establish.
On top of that, the campaign will include two new maps for survival mode. The Deep Forest is the calmer area of the two, and will give new players a way to dip their toes in. The Caustic Lands, is the more dangerous and difficult map, and in fact is the most challenging one the team has released so far.
With that news of the Campaign Mode, Numantian also revealed that the game will be ported to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. No exact release date, other than “July 2019”, so stay tuned for that one.
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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