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Strive For Your Sanity in ‘Visage’ This October
In case you’re completely unaware, we’re getting spoiled this October on numerous fronts. And now, thanks to SadSquare Studio, we’ve got another game to look forward to in the form of their psychological horror game, Visage. Releasing to Steam Early Access on October 2nd, the game looks damn good. Don’t believe me? Check out the trailer below!
Yeah, it’s only a teaser, but the screenshots on Steam back it up.
The story for Visage puts you as Dwayne, a mysterious man haunted by his past. You’re stuck in an massive old house that has had more than its fair share of tragedies. Thing is, you get to relive parts of the happenings as you wander around the maze-like house, which seems to bend the laws of reality, as you try to uncover “the truth behind the shadows”.
As in games like Amnesia, you’re defenseless save for light, which is your only solace against the madness you’ll endure in the game. You’ll need to avoid terror at all costs, as the dark entities within the house are attracted to it. Maintaining your sanity will keep you from joining the dead within the house. You’ll have to figure out ways in order to do so in order to not end up dead.
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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