John Sears | February 13, 2011
It all started with a google alert in my inbox that mentioned this one page on Gizmodo describing an allegedly ‘Zombie’ SNES: Run. Run! Run for your life, but don’t step over giant green pipe on your way out, or the zombie Super Nintendo will catch you to suck your blood and soul. The damn [...]
John Sears | February 12, 2011
First of all, though the game is called “Pro Zombie Soccer: Apocalypse Edition”, it is obviously anything but Zombie Positive. I wish the publisher wouldn’t stoop to using such a misleading title, which will surely confuse consumers and possibly lead to the mistaken purchase of the title by a Zombie Enlightened individual looking for something [...]
John Sears | February 10, 2011
We reviewed MadWorld here at the ZRC totally by accident; I had no idea there were Zombies involved when I purchased the game. (The ZRC determined that the blood-soaked and ludicrously violent game was neutral on the Differently Animated, as it treated them precisely the same as the Living: badly.) Still I have to say [...]
John Sears | February 10, 2011
BuyZombie brings us news that a sort of Zombie Tamagotchi app for the iPhone is free for a limited time: iPhone Users – Zombo Is FREE The Next 3 Days! Zombo, being a zombie, is always on the lookout to infect others. Since his home is on the iPhone he’s looking for iPhone users to [...]
John Sears | February 9, 2011
There are days here at the ZRC where I feel like I’m trapped in a time loop watching subtle variations of the same basic scenario play out over and over again until, hopefully, I can determine the proper course of action and find the Zombie Friendly solution to win my freedom. Like Groundhog Day, but [...]
John Sears | February 7, 2011
Sometimes I’ll admit to a bit of schadenfreude here at the ZRC, when an Anti-Zombie project crashes and burns spectacularly: A car combat and zombie game developed by Wellington firm Sidhe has failed to reach New Zealand stores after its publisher decided it would not be popular enough in Australia. Sidhe developed Blood Drive, for [...]
John Sears | February 7, 2011
Machinima is the practice of using the increasingly powerful and versatile 3D engines used to power modern computer and videogames to produce movies or other film-like works. It was only a matter of time, given the number of such games that feature Anti-Zombie violence, until someone put two and two together and came up with [...]
John Sears | February 7, 2011
Upcoming game Bulletstorm takes a decidedly sardonic view of the First Person Shooter genre, and seems determined to drag said games, kicking and screaming, back from the ultra-serious, grim, often ‘historical’ settings and tropes they’re situated in today. So as part of their advertising push they released a savagely hilarious and completely merciless parody of [...]
John Sears | February 5, 2011
I’ll give the developers at Blendo Games credit, I haven’t seen an Anti-Zombie game with a focus on the strategic elements quite like this before: There’s a new zombie game out now on PC, Mac and Linux – but its unlike any other zombie game on the market. Atom Zombie Smasher is a new strategy [...]
John Sears | February 4, 2011
Is it just me, or did they run out of ideas on new Anti-Zombie movies to make a long time ago? I mean, Hollywood isn’t known for its originality to start with, but, geez: If you ever owned a Super Nintendo back in the day and never got a chance to play Zombies Ate My [...]