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Bethesda is Playing Fast and Loose With the ‘Doom’ Demo
Demons everywhere are outraged at Bethesda for not sticking to the initial deadline for the free Doom demo, which the publisher originally intended to have available for the duration of E3 week. That plan went ignored due to high demand, its once clearly defined start and end dates twisted into a sort of cruel joke that betrays the devastation inflicted upon those foul creatures for our amusement. Worse yet is the uncertainty our demon brothers and sisters will face as long as the demo remains live with nary a mention made regarding its new end date.
We need to ask ourselves if the war we now wage against the legions of Hell is worth the ecstasy that envelopes your body and soul as you use a rusty chainsaw to tear an Imp’s chest wide open even though you have more than enough ammunition. You don’t do it for the satisfying ammo explosion it brings, no, you do it so you can look into the screaming demon’s dumb ugly face and watch as the light leaves its wee beady eyes.
But seriously, Doom is gory and glorious and absolutely worth playing.
@PixelJanosz @bethesda This was initially for E3 week only. But we figured, what the hell.
— DOOM (@DOOM) June 20, 2016
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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