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First Dev Diary For Psychological Thriller Game ‘Twin Mirror’ Released
Last month, Bandai Namco and Dontnod Entertainment announced their new upcoming psychological thriller entitled Twin Mirror. The episodic game will hit PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC in early 2019, with its first episode entitled “Lost on Arrival”. The devs have now released their first developer diary for the game. Entitled “A Place for a Thriller”, the diary looks at the setting of Twin Mirror, and how the rustic town of Basswood, West Virginia and the characters who inhabit the world set the tone of the game.
In Twin Mirror, you play as the investigative journalist Sam, who has returned to his hometown to bury an old friend. However, when Sam wakes up in his motel room with a blood-stained shirt and no memory of the night before, he must embark on an investigation of his own to discover what happened. Throughout the game, Sam must use his mind’s ability (known as his “Mind Palace”) to recreate memories from the past and piece together possible scenarios in order to find the truth.
Along the way, Sam must deal with The Double: Sam’s inner voice that takes the form of a classy sarcastic version of himself. Players will have to discover the events surrounding Sam’s predicament as they progress through the story, navigating between Sam’s instincts and The Double’s quirky guidance.
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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