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‘Dark Souls’ Gets Remastered for May 25th Release; Will Appear on the Switch
Since it bears repeating, everyone’s doing it, so why not Bandai Namco?
With companies like Capcom, Rockstar and Bethesda taking advantage of the Nintendo Switch, it was only a matter of time before other companies started porting their games. And today, Bandai Namco announced via Nintendo Direct that their hit game Dark Souls will be making its way to the system in a remastered form (along with the PlayStation 4, XBox One and PC) on May 25th!
For the remaster treatment, From Software will be handling it themselves in lieu of a third party. And for those who sprung for a PS4 Pro or XBox One X, the game will take advantage and play with an upscaled 4K resolution and at 60FPS. This will also be possible on PC. For Switch users, the game will sport 1080p resolution with 30FPS when playing the game in TV mode. Dark Souls Remastered will also support “up to six players” for online multiplayer. In addition, the game will also include the Artorias of the Abyss DLC.
And for the hardcore fans, Japan will be getting (or you, depending on how hardcore you are) a Dark Souls Trilogy boxset for PlayStation 4. The set includes Dark Souls Remastered, Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and Dark Souls 3: The Fire Fades Edition. Additionally, it will include soundtracks for each of the games, knight and bonfire bookends, an encyclopedia, and a special art set. No word yet on if this set will be making it to other regions (here’s hoping).
Now where’s the love for Demon’s Souls?
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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