John Sears | March 1, 2011
Honestly, I have serious doubts about this story, which is appearing verbatim on all sorts of gossip sites and reads like email spam in part, but: Gwyneth Paltrow loves fighting zombies. The 38-year-old actress – who has daughter Apple, six, and four-year-old son Moses with husband Chris Martin – says one of her most used [...]
John Sears | February 26, 2011
A new web game put out by one Mike Lacher uses the power of Google Street View to create its own Zombie Apocalypse… sort of: Enter a location and run from zombies inside street view. Please use Google Chrome (Safari tends to be okay too). This is rather experimental, so please let me know if [...]
John Sears | February 21, 2011
The video above, taking video from ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and running it in reverse alongside the ‘Dead Island’ trailer theme, helps to illustrate a point the ZRC has been trying to make in the discussion over ‘Dead Island’ on the net the last few days: the fact that the trailer is visually pretty and [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
I was somewhat bemused to see this particular editorial arguing that there is no reason to find the ‘Dead Island’ trailer controversial: So Dead Island has been announced, and everyone’s going gaga over the trailer. Forgive me for being so blunt, but I fail to see why. Various industry outlets such as MCV and The [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
Minecraft, for those who aren’t aware of the phenomenon, is a sort of sandbox/world building game, centered largely around construction in a cube-filled, primitively polygonal world: Minecraft is a sandbox building[1][2] indie video game written in Java originally by creator Markus “Notch” Persson and now by his company, Mojang, formed from the proceeds of the [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
This announcement was inevitable but it’s still a sad one that we have to bring you, the loyal Zombie Friendly readers of the ZRC Blog: Yes, there will be a ‘Walking Dead’ videogame: Can’t get enough heart-wrenching, emotion inducing zombie based games? Of course you can’t. No one can. So, you’ll be pleased to hear [...]
John Sears | February 20, 2011
We talked about the technically impressive, morally degenerate trailer for upcoming Anti-Zombie game ‘Dead Island’ here previously on the ZRC blog as the massive Zombie/Worker Solidarity thing started to crank into high gear. Now there are some details available on the game behind the trailer: Deep Silver announced today that it will publish Dead Island, [...]
John Sears | February 18, 2011
One of the big stories in Anti-Zombie Media that I had to pass on writing up for the ZRC due to the Solidarity we were out showing the union workers this week was the release of an astonishing, breathtakingly well animated trailer for an upcoming Anti-Zombie videogame that is making the rounds. The game is [...]
John Sears | February 17, 2011
Recently here on the ZRC we’ve had a stirring discussion about the nature, and plausibility, of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’. Yet, amongst virtually all of the media and games surrounding these apocalypse scenarios, very rarely is the plight of the Zombie, even the poor imitation of one Hollywood allows us to see, considered. We’ve seen that [...]
John Sears | February 14, 2011
I know I’ve joked about just how many Plants vs. Zombies products are out there today, but this is seriously starting to get ridiculous: Well according to Kotaku Australia (who hasn’t changed to the HORRIBLE new look that Gawker sites run on) there is a Plants vs Zombies board game coming out soon! An officially [...]