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‘Resident Evil 0’ HD Still Going Strong With 1.1M Sold
I imagine it must’ve felt pretty darn good when the folks at Capcom realized they could take any of their “classic” titles — i.e. any game that hasn’t made money in at least a decade — and after applying the minimal amount of polish required to justify the ‘HD’ in the title, they’ll still sell at least another million copies. I wonder if the way Capcom felt that day is at all comparable to the way the company’s last two HD re-releases made me feel as I slowly came to realize that a very big part of me is actually looking forward to the reveal of the inevitable next Resident Evil remaster.
The last two games from the pre-Resident Evil 4 era to return with an HD in the title were objectively two of the best that Capcom has produced thus far. They’ve also sold well, with Resident Evil HD boasting 1.3M in sales, followed closely by Resident Evil 0 HD at 1.1M — an impressive jump from 800k back in May.
I’m eager to see which game Capcom returns to next. The second or third games in the series seem like the most obvious candidates, but their age would make them both more challenging, and costly, to update. The remake and its prequel weren’t as dated, and they each came from more modern platforms.
There’s also the Resident Evil 2 remake to consider, as well as to help remind us that Resident Evil 3 has become the neglected red-headed step child of the family — the core family, not the extended one that includes a great many red-headed step children. So I’ll leave it to you. Which Resident Evil would you like to see be remastered next?
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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