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[Boredom Bytes] The ‘Slender’ Games, Ghost Rider Strolls Through Liberty City, Conan O’Brien Reviews ‘Resident Evil 6’
You feel that? That silence? This is the calm before the storm, because right now, we’re on the precipice of total anarchy. You thought last week, which was largely dominated by the Wii U and Steam Greenlight, was busy? Oh, no sir. Next week we have Borderlands 2, a game that’s brimming with guns and wub wub, and Torchlight II, which I’ve already spent a few hours in for my review (look for it next week!), and it’s pretty great so far. Not long after that we have Resident Evil 6, followed by Dishonored, and a slew of other incredible looking titles that are guaranteed to take up all our time. So enjoy this moment, because you’ll soon have one excellent game after another trying to seduce its way into your living room. After the break, I have some pretty fantastic videos for you, including a Slenderman take on The Hunger Games, Ghost Rider’s recent vacation in Liberty City, and Conan O’Brien reviews Resident Evil 6.
I only watched The Hunger Games a few weeks ago and loved it. Forcing kids to kill each other is good fun for the whole family, and really, the only way to make winning formula even better is by injecting a little Slenderman into it. The result is pure magic.
It’s no secret I’m not a huge fan of the Grand Theft Auto series. To me, they’re more simulation games than anything else. I’d rather be encouraged beat down the elderly with a purple dildo bat in Saints Row, or unleash a flurry of punches and kicks Batman-style in Sleeping Dogs than go bowling with my cousin any day. But hey, that’s just me. If GTA IV had been more like this fan-made mod you can see below, I definitely would’ve been more interested in it.
So Conan O’Brien, who’s an unabashed non-gamer, recently reviewed Resident Evil 6, and the results are unsurprisingly hilarious. This is part of a series of video game reviews Conan’s been doing, where he’s reviewed some pretty major titles, including Minecraft (which he wasn’t a big fan of) and Skyrim (he liked that one a little more). They’ve all been pretty funny, but his Resident Evil 6 review really takes the cake.
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All of us here at Bloody Disgusting are deeply saddened to learn that George A. Romero Foundation Founder and President Suzanne Desrocher-Romero has passed away.
GARF shared in a statement on socials, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce the passing of Suzanne Desrocher Romero. Suzanne passed away of natural causes on June 24 at her home in Toronto after a prolonged illness.”
The statement continues, “Suzanne was the fierce leader of the George A. Romero Estate and The George A. Romero Foundation. She worked tirelessly to preserve George’s legacy. Her work at the foundation will continue to inspire and live on for generations to come. The family asks for privacy at this time.”
Desrocher-Romero founded GARF in 2018, after her late husband’s passing in 2017, and has been a fierce advocate for his legacy and the arts. It was her mission to “strengthen horror as a serious field of global study,” and she was a tremendous fighter on behalf of Romero’s works and supporting new filmmakers inspired by his legacy.
It was Desrocher-Romero who spearheaded the recovery and restoration of The Amusement Park, and, as the person in charge of the George A. Romero estate, worked closely with author Daniel Kraus on completing unfinished novels like Pay the Piper and The Living Dead. She most recently celebrated the restoration of her favorite of Romero’s zombie films, Day of the Dead, and was hard at work producing the upcoming film Twilight of the Dead.
That passionate advocacy led to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero becoming family to Bloody Disgusting as well.
2023 marked the start of an ongoing partnership between Bloody FM and GARF on The Dead, a scripted audio series spanning multiple seasons that saw Desrocher-Romero working closely with the Bloody FM team and mentoring the series’s contributing writers with GARF. To say her loss will be felt internally is an understatement.
“Anytime George Romero is mentioned is good, because what we are doing is to provide a healthy legacy. We’re uplifting his legacy, we’re supporting the archive, and we’re also supporting the Horror Study Center. So, all of these three things are what the Foundation is striving to do. As far as I’m concerned, the more we say George Romero’s name, the better it is,” Desrocher-Romero recently told BD.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of her unwavering enthusiasm for supporting Romero’s legacy and the horror genre, and just a glimpse at how much she contributed to preserving it. She is, in short, an inspiration.
We send our deepest condolences to Suzanne Desrocher-Romero’s family, friends, and GARF.
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