John Sears | January 5, 2012
I’ll admit to having played quite a bit of ‘House of the Dead’ back in the day, particularly ‘House of the Dead 2′. I even own a copy of ‘Typing of the Dead’, a typing tutor game made from ‘House of the Dead’. Yes, they really did that. Still, in the years since I’ve seen [...]
John Sears | January 5, 2012
The ZRC’s position on the nightmarishly boring, intellect-sapping evil known as ‘Sparkly Vampires’ is well known to our readers. However, what about Sparkly Living Supremacism? Well, you’ll get plenty of that, tragically, in the upcoming game ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’, previously covered here and here on the ZRC blog. It’s not pretty: Sparkle Hunting? Giant glowy hearts [...]
John Sears | January 5, 2012
Recently, we shipped the prestigious award for Zombie of the Year 2011 to our worthy recipient, Hannah Eiseman-Renyard, over in the hopefully-more-Zombie-Tolerant-soon United Kingdom. Sadly, it arrived a bit banged up. Thus the ZRC has set out to rectify our mistake and ship a new copy without bends, crumples, wrinkles or imperfections! For the Zombies! [...]
John Sears | January 1, 2012
Stories like this are what makes it all worthwhile for the ZRC: According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the largest gathering of zombies ever was held on October 30, 2010 when 4,093 participants gathered on the boardwalk in Asbury Park, New Jersey. But on October 15 of this year, more than 20,000 zombies [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2011
I’m not kidding with that title, folks: Hollywood has come to Youngstown to shoot a movie in less than a week with hundreds of local actors, extras and production staff. “The Zombinator,” an independent horror flick, is in production right now and uses Youngstown and surrounding communities as its backdrop. … Myers first came to [...]
John Sears | December 30, 2011
We’ve been following this one on the ZRC blog for a while, and at last, the dread time is upon us: Microsoft and doublesix have announced that the Xbox 360 version of All Zombies Must Die! is now available via Xbox LIVE, priced 800 MP. The spiritual successor to Burn Zombie Burn! drops up to [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Once again we find a journalist using ‘Zombie’ as a casual, and remarkably poorly-informed, insult: When OC-based Real Mex Restaurants, operator of Chevys, El Torrito, and Acapulco, filed for bankruptcy protection in October, it closed only 30 of its 156 locations. Sbarro, the Italian fast-food chain, shuttered just 31 of its 429 U.S. stores. This [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
Look, I get that there’s a great deal of concern about physical fitness and exposing children to a potential love of the outdoors, I really do. But there’s a right way and a wrong way to go about getting that exposure for your spawn, and this? This is the wrong way. This week, kids from [...]
John Sears | December 29, 2011
What does a roundup of new tech-lit books have to do with casual Zombie-bashing? Why not ask Kara Swisher? She seems to be a fan of Anti-Zombie prejudice, dropping little gems like: It’s funny that they, and also Hoffman, are using the hopelessly analog term “blueprint,” but I like the retro feel. No surprise, Thiel’s [...]
John Sears | December 26, 2011
We got forwarded this link on the ZRC Twitter over the holiday weekend, and naturally, we were disgusted: Sample Lyrics: Throwing a rock Unloading my Glock Hurling Molotovs Nothing makes ‘em stop Living in a land where everyone is dead Gonna put this one last bullet right through my own head. Yes, it’s a ‘festive’ [...]