John Sears | January 28, 2011
It’s distressing to hear news like this: Two networks are following in The Walking Dead’s footsteps. The CW is developing The Awakening, a show about two sisters dealing with their relationship and a zombie apocalypse. And NBC’s developing a show from McG’s production company, Zombies vs. Vampires. Really? It’s not bad enough that Zombies take [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
In our last update the ZRC happily reviewed a smart, well-written and directed fan take on the world of Fallout 3, which happened to be Zombie Friendly to boot (given the Fallout 3 universe that’s not hugely surprising but was still appreciated). This time we have a very different web series from Machinima entitled ‘Bite [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
I always appreciate it when we can not just review something, but allow you, the ZRC reader, to see/read/listen/view/evaluate it in its entirety. It helps us in our never-ending quest to help you, the Zombie Ally, to familiarize yourself with the best, as well as the worst, in media about Zombies. Today’s review topic is [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
I found this Hollywood Reporter piece on Gale Anne Hurd and her thoughts about The Walking Dead fascinating, in a grimly offensive sort of way. Producer Gale Anne Hurd, who is billed here at NATPE as the queen of sci-fi, thinks zombies are just what’s needed to offset today’s real-life anxieties. “Given the fears in [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
Never content with their undisputed status as Kings of Anti-Zombie Videogames (well, undisputed except by Valve), Capcom has turned to freeware on the iOS (iPhone OS) to expand their market of hate: In the world of Zombie Café, the food service industry is a life and death business. In addition to managing a menu, preparing [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
In case you aren’t up on your latest collegiate sporting trends, an elaborate Zombie Apocalypse themed game of Tag has been growing in popularity around the nation and even internationally in recent years: “Humans vs. Zombies”. In a nutshell, it simulates the tried, true, and trite Zombie/Survivor standoff seen in dozens of movies, videogames, and [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
Honestly, after the Hardy Boys thing I had thought myself truly prepared for the utter dearth of taste to be found in the current ‘Shove Zombies in Anything’ trend, but this just goes to show you that there’s no such thing as ‘too cynical’: If you download a game called “Farts Vs Zombies,” you probably [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
Back in the heady days before World of Warcraft (with its relatively positive portrayal of an Undead character race) took complete dominion of the MMO world, I played a couple of lesser massively multiplayer games. Like Star Wars Galaxies (lesser in many, many ways), but also City of Heroes, which was very popular in its [...]
John Sears | January 26, 2011
BuyZombie pointed us to this shirt from Crazy Dog which hits a little close to home for the ZRC: “Run for the Cure”. What cure it doesn’t say, but it implies strongly that this is a ‘cure’ for, well, Zombies. It explicitly says that the search for this ‘cure’ has been going on for over [...]
John Sears | January 26, 2011
Deneen Melody of Slices of Life (which we had mixed feelings over) started up a miniature meme today on Facebook, which led to various people using a flash doll creator site to make virtual puppy pictures. Naturally, I wanted to create a Zombie Puppy, and the results weren’t half bad, really: Yes, this is a [...]