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‘Diablo III’ On Consoles Will See Same Support PC Does
In less than two weeks, the armies of hell will march their way to consoles with the release of the Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition, the ultimate iteration of Blizzard’s dungeon crawler series. Just last month, Blizzard revealed they were unsure as to whether or not Diablo III on consoles would see any support post-release. They seem to have made up their minds now, as it’s been confirmed that everything the PC version gets will come to consoles, albeit with a slight delay.
This is great news. I own the game for PC and Xbox 360 already and I plan on grabbing the Ultimate Evil Edition when it comes to Xbox One later this month, because I’m a massive Diablo nerd who spends way too much time scouring dungeons for their sweet, sweet loot.
I was a bit confused when Blizzard said they weren’t sure if they’d support the console versions, not just because it makes no sense to not support every platform, but also because that was an extraordinarily odd thing to say a month before the release of the game you’re saying you might not support. Now that that’s been cleared up, I can look forward to returning to the game for the third time, because there are demons that need slaying and my level 60-something Monk is the right woman for the job.
Diablo III Ultimate Evil Edition arrives on PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One on August 19.
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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