John Sears | August 12, 2010
Anime News Network has a regularly run games column called ‘The X Button’, and recently they got to sit down with Keiji Inafune (famous for his work on Megaman but also a pivotal figure in Dead Rising’s development) along with his Dead Rising 2 colleague and co-producer Shinsaku Ohara about Dead Rising 2′s development. It’s [...]
John Sears | August 12, 2010
Ok, this is way past its expiration date, so to speak. Fallout 3, the long-awaited sequel to the classic Fallout franchise, came out in 2008, and I recently picked up the Game of the Year Edition from Amazon looking for a little respite from Zombie related activities. Something to pick me up after watching and [...]
John Sears | August 7, 2010
Dead Rising 2 comes out soon, and before the main event they’re trying an interesting promotional concept: a DLC addon prequel to the main game. You know, sort of like how a drug dealer might give you a sample to get you hooked. Naturally the ZRC will have to purchase both; we’re mulling over how [...]
John Sears | April 25, 2010
My Xbox is telling me that there’s a new Left 4 Dead 2 addon. I’d previously read a bit about it, and apparently the downloadable content adds a bit of backstory and allows a crossover between the casts of the two games. Further, one of the original cast is supposed to die in the course [...]
John Sears | April 15, 2010
Seems like Xbox Live is promoting various ‘zombie’ games and products this week. They have the Yet Another Zombie Defense game that was already reviewed here on the ZRC blog, as well as other games and products, various Hollywood movies, etc. If only we could get this kind of exposure for positive Zombie experiences.
John Sears | March 6, 2010
Reinvention in the horror genre is a very common occurrence. Vampires are especially prone to this, but it’s true of all so-called ‘monsters’. (See this TV Tropes page for examples) Depictions of the Differently Animated, aka Zombies, in America have largely been of one of two types. First you had your Voodoo thrall zombie, a [...]
John Sears | February 28, 2010
I was looking through the Xbox Live Marketplace today and saw something insidious – a Zombie game being sold under the Indie Game label for only 80 points, or a dollar in real money. I decided to investigate, and what I found was shocking. Ok, not *that* shocking. As the title suggests, Yet Another Zombie [...]
John Sears | November 23, 2009
Oops, I’d completely forgotten to update the blog lately, though there have been plenty of 140 character or less updates on the Official ZRC Twitter. Let’s see, news… well, I think that I’ve fully recovered from the nightmare inducing Left 4 Dead demo, and so the ZRC is going to dive back in to consuming, [...]
John Sears | November 16, 2009
My sleep has been fairly lousy the last few days, and I blame that hotbed of anti-Zombie violence, Left 4 Dead 2. Even I, the President of the Zombie Rights Campaign, who knows full well the untruths peddled by that game and its depiction of the Differently Animated, has been plagued with dreams of ravenous [...]
John Sears | November 13, 2009
The ZRC has continued to play Left 4 Dead 2 over the last week, in order to get a better appreciation of the next wave in anti-Zombie videogaming. It has been pointed out that these ‘zombies’ are not technically undead, by an astute commenter here on the ZRC blog, and that is so; they fall [...]