John Sears | April 5, 2011
I don’t suppose you can expect a *ton* of originality from yet another ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ game: Dead Island lies somewhere in the middle of the zombie market’s two big darlings: Left 4 Dead and Dead Rising. Like Valve’s masterpiece it’s a first-person adventure with four player coop features. But instead of making Dead Island a [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
A story where peoples’ hearts are in the right place, I suppose, but a bit of education could be in order: Scores of the rotting undead shambled out from the newly blossoming trees of Columbia Park in Kennewick sometime after 3:30 p.m., spattered with blood and hungering for human flesh. They moaned a chilling cry [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
Depressingly, the variety of Anti-Zombie videogames just seems to keep increasing at a steady clip. Perhaps tiring of the Zombie Apocalypse theme, Anti-Zom developers are branching out: There’s no denying it. Zombie games make money. No one has anything against a good zombie game really, it’s just that there’s a lot of them. So we [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
The Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker (which the ZRC of course attended) has been getting lots of press, and surprisingly, a few stereotypical ‘Zombie’ jokes aside, it’s mostly positive! From AMERICAblog: It seems more zombies turned out in Madison, Wisconsin this weekend than Teabaggers turned out in DC last week. Yeah, that’s right — zombies [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
You have two Zombie Tolerant (or better!) candidates for mayor, plus other elections including a Supreme Court race that has become a referendum on Governor Walker (who is Anti-Zombie). I highly suggest voting tomorrow. Wisconsin has same-day registration, so there’s no real barrier. Find your polling place (use this site) and go there. Polls are [...]
John Sears | April 5, 2011
This kind of speaks for itself, but what the hey: The Walking Dead Girls is a behind-the-scenes look into zombie culture in the United States and the obsession into “”Sexy Female Zombies””. What is it about Zombie Bimbos or “”Zimbies”” that are starting to gain the worlds interest? Why are zombies now in mainstream culture [...]
John Sears | April 4, 2011
I sent the following email to Mayor Dave’s campaign staff yesterday regarding the Soglin attendance at Saturday’s Zombie Walk and the pledge Soglin made toward better integration of the Differently Animated in the City of Madison: To the Campaign of Mayor Dave Cieslewicz: As you are no doubt aware, yesterday a heavily publicized ‘Zombie Walk [...]
John Sears | April 3, 2011
Just so you know the origin of the above phrase when I start using it reflexively, watch this Youtube April Fool’s prank/video: The relevant portion starts at about 1:39, if you’re in a hurry.
John Sears | April 3, 2011
Here at the ZRC we think that the best way for Living people to come to accept Zombies is to see Zombies and their supporters helping out, doing good, or in yesterday’s case, peacefully assembling in public. Apparently the Anti-Zombie filmmakers, however, have something of the same idea about themselves: Gawid Entertainment has teamed up [...]
John Sears | April 3, 2011
I really didn’t want to have to write this post. In the wake of our original reporting on the Zombie Walk Against Governor Walker, a ‘Citizen Journalism’ site covering the Madison protests decided to copy large portions of our text without attribution as part of a slightly longer piece on the Zombie Walk. In fact, [...]