John Sears | February 3, 2011
Insurgent survival horror franchise ‘Dead Space’ has a sequel out, and it’s determined to go down as one of the most gruesomely violent Anti-Zombie games of all time, with a new special black mark for promoting violence against the most innocent and vulnerable Undead population, that of Zombie children: Dead Space 2 is not just [...]
John Sears | February 3, 2011
We’ve all seen how the Xbox 360 has become the platform par excellence for Anti-Zombie videogames, but it’s still disturbing to learn of how much support Microsoft is giving to the development of a ‘Zombie Apocalypse’ MMO: Ask Jeff Strain what ultimate goal of his game studio Undead Labs is and he’ll give you a [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2011
Seriously. First, it’s out (for the Xbox 360 anyway; PS3 owners get to wait due to an exclusivity arrangement). Secondly, the new Anti-Zombie map, which is set in a Soviet facility of some sort, features undead monkeys: The Ascension map, meanwhile, brings the zombie madness with Soviet zombies along with hordes of zombie monkeys that [...]
John Sears | February 1, 2011
Isn’t it just tragic when the Anti-Zombie crowd can’t get along? Witness this, from a recent interview with Milla Jovovich: Was there a backlash from hardcore fans who were upset that Alice didn’t originate in the game? Oh yeah, there are, like, 15 people in the world that spend all day really hating me. Like [...]
John Sears | January 30, 2011
It appears that Facebook, ever on the watch for new ways to be evil, has decided to ‘innovate’ by allowing an Anti-Zombie social game onto the site: One of the newest Facebook games that’s gaining a bit of speed (relative to its very young age of just a few days old) is Pixel Pandemic’s appropriately [...]
John Sears | January 30, 2011
Recently, popular webcomic ‘Penny-Arcade’ pulled a line of merchandise from their stores centered around fictional creatures called ‘Dickwolves’ whose only known attributes were that they were a: wolves and b: raped people. The Dickwolves originated from a comic satirizing the casual way that certain videogame genres interpret moral choices within their universes; ie, a character [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
News from the rumor mill suggests that Kirkman’s Anti-Zombie magnum opus may soon take on videogame form: 1UP is reporting that Telltale Games sent them a mysterious invitation to an event where they will be announcing a video game “based on a just-launched property from the TV and comic book world whose popularity is changing [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
In our last update the ZRC happily reviewed a smart, well-written and directed fan take on the world of Fallout 3, which happened to be Zombie Friendly to boot (given the Fallout 3 universe that’s not hugely surprising but was still appreciated). This time we have a very different web series from Machinima entitled ‘Bite [...]
John Sears | January 28, 2011
I always appreciate it when we can not just review something, but allow you, the ZRC reader, to see/read/listen/view/evaluate it in its entirety. It helps us in our never-ending quest to help you, the Zombie Ally, to familiarize yourself with the best, as well as the worst, in media about Zombies. Today’s review topic is [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
Never content with their undisputed status as Kings of Anti-Zombie Videogames (well, undisputed except by Valve), Capcom has turned to freeware on the iOS (iPhone OS) to expand their market of hate: In the world of Zombie Café, the food service industry is a life and death business. In addition to managing a menu, preparing [...]