John Sears | January 6, 2012
We’re a pretty tolerant area for the Zombie Community here in Wisconsin, and the Undead are active members of our communities, as we’ve copiously documented on the blog. So when I heard about an explicitly Anti-Zombie angle on a local gaming convention I was shocked and offended: WESTON — Every year, the D.C. Everest Gaming [...]
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 [...]