John Sears | March 29, 2011
Capcom loves their Resident Evil remakes. Resident Evil 1 has had almost innumerable versions, including a ‘Director’s Cut’ and a complete reboot on the Gamecube. Most RE games get at least one port to a new platform with added content and extra features. Still, this latest re-issue is something a bit different: Resident Evil: Operation [...]
John Sears | March 29, 2011
Update: As per a comment below, apparently Project Zomboid is not an MMO at all, but a Minecraft style game which features vicious Anti-Zombie behavior. As such it is not part of the Anti-Zombie MMO trend but rather part of an even larger trend of upcoming Anti-Zombie games with online multiplayer, often in a strategic [...]
John Sears | March 24, 2011
Granted, it’s not a Zombie Friendly post and ends with a sort of verbal shrug about how Zombies might be people but killing them in games is fun, but hey, this is the closest we’ve ever seen a tech/gaming site come to acknowledging Zombies as fully equal human beings: Does anyone ever stop to think [...]
John Sears | March 23, 2011
There are days when our ‘Zombie Flavored Creativity Substitute’ tag feels like it’s going to get worn out, which shouldn’t be possible, but hey, everything has a limit: What flies south in the winter and quacks “cruummbbbssss”? Zombie Ducks! Yes, someone has shamelessly, err, *borrowed* the NES classic game ‘Duck Hunt’ and reconfigured it to [...]
John Sears | March 22, 2011
When in doubt, exploit the Differently Animated. That seems to be the lesson videogame developers around the world have learned in the wake of best-selling titles like Resident Evil, Dead Rising, Left 4 Dead, Call of Duty: Black Ops and so forth. Whether it’s Zombies in a cutesy tower defense game ala Plants vs Zombies, [...]
John Sears | March 15, 2011
Given the seemingly endless public appetite for Anti-Zombie media it was only a matter of time before Facebook, the world’s natural home for all ugly trends in technology, would find a way to jump on the bandwagon: Digital Chocolate, a leader in social games across growing platforms, today announced the launch of Zombie Lane™ on [...]
John Sears | March 12, 2011
I wonder why it is that, of all the potentially Zombie animals out there, it’s dogs that seem to inspire the most fiction. Perhaps the earliest I became aware of this phenomenon was in the story ‘The Pack’ by Chet Williamson, written in 1991. (Now that’s a gruesome one, more than a bit strange, and, [...]
John Sears | March 11, 2011
I guess the people at Telltale Games know their target audience pretty well, having released scant details on the upcoming Walking Dead series of episode games save that they will be graphically violent: “It’s very early on in the process, but I’m looking at story points and I think they’re going to make some announcements [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2011
What happens when the voice talent for a violent Anti-Zombie videogame sit down to play it for the first time? Well, some pretty strange things can be revealed, and some sad truths about human nature as well: The celeb-packed hands-on spectacle includes snippets of pint-sized Kill Bill actress Chiaki Kurimaya – apparently a self-confessed fan [...]
John Sears | March 6, 2011
I finally have the chance to hit a bit of traditional ZRC territory here, having Solidarity-ed myself out today at a reasonable time and gotten some chores done this evening, so let’s check back in with ‘Dead Island’, the videogame media’s darling, famed for its gruesome and unsettlingly Anti-Zombie trailer. Which, as it turns out, [...]