John Sears | November 25, 2010
As mentioned on the blog, we here at the ZRC spent the Thankstaking Day holiday relaxing and forcing ourselves to slog through Romero ‘classic’ films. Due to technical issues with Dawn of the Dead, we only got through Night and Dawn, missing the trifecta with Day. Not bad for refreshing the old memory though, plus [...]
John Sears | November 23, 2010
Well the trip to The Dark Carnival was tons of fun and went off without a hitch, right up until the day after we get back and I fall terribly ill while trying to get the media uploaded and some posts written about the trip. Sorry about that. We have returned from our triumphantly successful [...]
John Sears | November 14, 2010
This is an oldie, and it came as a surprise here at the ZRC – I had intended to purchase this game specifically to get *away* from Zombie games, or more precisely, Anti-Zombie games, for a bit; that, and the fact that it was cheap, and that it’s a spiritual successor to the massively underrated [...]
John Sears | November 12, 2010
I’d heard of the new Call of Duty game dipping its toes into the sea of Anti-Zombie gaming of late, but this was a surprise to be sure: According to leaked videos posted online, the coming video game release “Call of Duty: Black Ops” features a sequence in which Richard Nixon teams up with John [...]
John Sears | November 6, 2010
We got a ton of responses to the Mega 64 piece I put up yesterday, and I have to say: “Grow up, you mouth-breathing cretins.” When we got back this evening from our trip to the Drunken Zombie Film Festival I saw dozens of comments in the queue and my first thought was, ‘Gee, I [...]
John Sears | November 5, 2010
Mega64, for those not in the know (which included me, prior to today) is a sketch comedy show described as being akin to infamously stupid media product ‘Jackass’, but about videogames. From what I’ve seen.. that’s a fair cop. The most recent episode concerns the spate of Zombie videogames coming out of late, which, believe [...]
John Sears | October 31, 2010
This article from NPR entitled ’8 Things Everyone Needs To Know About Zombies’ is a truly awful piece of mishmash, patently obvious trivia combined with wild speculation on fashionable topics and theories mixed with outright factual errors. Not just errors about Zombies; errors about filmmaking, about the basic history of horror movies and the pop [...]
John Sears | October 7, 2010
In the midst of reviewing so many Anti-Zombie Xbox games this news slipped past me for a brief time, but it’s worth mentioning as a *possible* glimmer of light in the current generation of console games. Summing up: Konami is publishing/co-developing a console shooter (PS3 and Xbox 360) called “Neverdead” which features an Undead, possibly [...]
John Sears | October 6, 2010
Sadly, not a game about the travails of an Undead police sniper, working hard to prevent tragedy in various hostage situations. Sadly. Zombie Sniper 3D is, well, a game, about sniping Zombies, in 3D. A very frustrating, boring game about sniping Zombies in 3D. Here’s what a gameplay session of Zombie Sniper 3D is like: [...]
John Sears | October 4, 2010
It is as strange as the title suggests. First, a bit of housekeeping: posting will be light for a few days as I recover from an apocalyptically nasty stomach bug. Right now I can’t move around too much, and can barely be bothered to type, this review is all I feel up to today. Hopefully [...]