John Sears | January 27, 2011
Honestly, after the Hardy Boys thing I had thought myself truly prepared for the utter dearth of taste to be found in the current ‘Shove Zombies in Anything’ trend, but this just goes to show you that there’s no such thing as ‘too cynical’: If you download a game called “Farts Vs Zombies,” you probably [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2011
Back in the heady days before World of Warcraft (with its relatively positive portrayal of an Undead character race) took complete dominion of the MMO world, I played a couple of lesser massively multiplayer games. Like Star Wars Galaxies (lesser in many, many ways), but also City of Heroes, which was very popular in its [...]
John Sears | January 25, 2011
I can’t think of any other explanation for this atrocity to come for the 3DS from game publisher Majesco: Developed by 1st Playable Productions, Pet Zombies in 3D lets players raise their very own decaying human pets by managing their special dietary preferences (brains and the like), bodily maintenance (or lack thereof) and morbid activities [...]
John Sears | January 25, 2011
Sometimes, even though we strive to keep the ZRC focused on its mission and as non-partisan as possible, events in ‘conventional’ politics compel us to respond, like we did to a Republican plan here in Wisconsin to disenfranchise Zombie voters, amongst many others. Other times we’re simply inspired by the actions of other lobbying groups, [...]
John Sears | January 21, 2011
Did you know that an Anti-Zombie, vaguely musical (think Guitar Hero) videogame came out late last year? Nope, me either. Or, it seems, anyone who plays games, almost anywhere in the world; but it happened, and it was/is called ‘Rock of the Dead’ Released for the Wii, PS3 and Xbox 360 in October with a [...]
John Sears | January 20, 2011
News of a new, ‘pixel-based’ flash game where you, guess what, slaughter Zombies in a quasi-dual-stick shooter, came to the ZRC via BuyZombie recently: Bitejacker Released Today We had a chance to show off the BiteJacker Trailer a little while ago and this pixel based zombie game is coming out… well.. TODAY! So if you [...]
John Sears | January 20, 2011
Just a quick update to mention something I covered on the ZRC Twitter feed: the launch titles have been announced for Nintendo’s new 3D gaming portable, and a Resident Evil made the cut: The following games are set to be release on launch day or in the weeks thereafter: Pilotwings Resort Nintendogs + Cats Steel [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2011
There are a lot of defense/dual stick arcade shooters out these days; we’ve reviewed several here for the ZRC, like ‘Zombie Apocalypse‘, Yet Another Zombie Defense (aptly named), or the infamous ‘I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES!!!1NIT!!!!1′. In a crowded field, how do you compete? Well, we’d suggest not entering such a scrum of violence [...]
John Sears | January 19, 2011
This time they’re going portable with an invasion of the Nintendo DS: PopCap Games, the worldwide leader in casual video games, today announced the widely anticipated North American release of Plants vs. Zombies™ for the Nintendo DS®. Expertly adapted in the PopCap tradition, the game features all of the engaging gameplay included in the PC [...]
John Sears | January 18, 2011
It’s a well-established trope in Anti-Zombie media that you have to ‘shoot em in the head’. This cranial fixation, first seen in Romero’s infamous ‘Night of the Living Dead’, has rapidly suppressed almost all pre-Romero Zombie lore in the public mind, and as such, the Anti-Zombie gaming world naturally incorporated it as a prime gameplay [...]