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Overdose On ‘Doom’ With Two Hours of Footage
Here we are, with less than two weeks between us and the new Doom. We’ve known about this game for some time, we know about its troubled development, and we’ve seen — or played, if you got in on one of its multiplayer betas — enough of it to have a pretty good idea of the game that id Software will deliver on May 13.
There’s not a lot standing in its way either. May has a solid offering of horror games for us to anticipate, but Doom stands out among them as the only new release — a lone reboot surrounded by remasters (Sylvio, Dead Island Definitive Edition) and re-releases (The Park, Neverending Nightmares, Oxenfree).
In a recent livestream, id Software’s Marty Stratton and Hugo Martin took the Internet on a guided tour through a considerable portion of the game’s solo mode, which you can get familiar with in the video below.
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SnapMap is the new multi-platform modding toolset that’ll come bundled with Doom (on PC, PS4 and Xbox One). It may be the most exciting things about the game, if only because it’s what’ll keep it new and interesting six months after its release when we’ve vanquished the campaign and had our fill with the multiplayer.
Below you’ll find another hour of footage featuring Tom Muscatine of the SnapMap team.
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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