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‘Death Stranding’ Release Date Leaked by Walmart?
With the 2018 Game Awards happening December 6th, one of the big questions for Death Stranding fans is just when we’re going to get that release date. Kojima’s BFF (and producer of The Game Awards) Geoff Keighley has teased over the past months that we might be getting that answer at the event (possibly even a little something for Alien fans). However, leave it to my country’s branch of Walmart to potentially spoil that.
In a tweet saying stating that there will be “a LOT of games” that are being kept hush-hush until the event, one fan decided to ask about a certain listing that Walmart Canada has on their website:
In case the tweet is pulled down, the fan screengrabbed a pre-order listing for Death Stranding, with a release date of June 30th, 2019. In response, Walmart Canada, seemingly confirmed the truth to this listing.
This could also all be a giant prank, since Geoff was poking fun at Walmart in his tweet, and Walmart Canada has “accidentally” leaked unannounced release dates in the past for games such as RAGE 2. The only real answer to this would be to tune in and see if a release date is announced for Death Stranding, and it is that June 30th release date.
Props to RelyOnHorror for noticing this one.
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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