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PS4 Exclusive Horror ‘Days Gone’ Has Been Delayed
Sony has announced the release of the PS4 exclusive post-apocalyptic title (no, not that one) Days Gone has been pushed back.
The open world title is the first AAA title by Bend Studios (Uncharted: Golden Abyss, Syphon Filter), and had originally been scheduled to release February 22, 2019. Now, the game will launch on April 26 instead.
The reason? Sony says it’s to add more polish, but also admits the original February timeframe was heavily crowded, which can be massively unforgiving for a new IP. February’s releases include Crackdown 3, Metro Exodus, and Bioware’s Anthem, which were all launching the same day as Days Gone initially.
March would clearly have been little better for Days Gone, as that month features Devil May Cry 5, The Sinking City, The Division 2, and From Software’s highly-anticipated Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. April is much quieter at present, and Sony has had a knack for timing the releases of its bigger exclusives outside the crazier times of the year.
In Days Gone, you roam a post-apocalyptic world with the help of your trusty motorcycle and try your best to avoid the rabid hordes of infected humans known as ‘Freakers’, treacherous weather conditions and infected wildlife.
In the same announcement, Sony also gave a release window of Spring 2019 for another exclusive, Concrete Genie. In that game, you play as a bullied teenager named Ash who escapes his troubles by painting spectacular living landscapes and mischievous creatures. That’s looking gorgeous and is definitely one to look out for.
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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