John Sears | April 13, 2012
I’m not sure I’d even characterize this as a game; more like a virtual ant farm you get to kick over as often as you like. Which is pretty sadistic, really: The game uses Google Maps to overlay swarms of zombie on real-world locations—imagine how eerie it would be to watch the undead descend on [...]
John Sears | April 4, 2012
Two new, obviously vicious Anti-Zombie games are out this spring and the reviews are mixed, and unfortunately, miss the Zombie Rights angle entirely. Example: Play enough games and you learn some universal rules. An enemy’s weak spot is marked in red; purple items are poison; and zombies make any scenario better. It’s fact. The undead [...]
John Sears | April 1, 2012
We previously reported on the crowdfunding campaign for ‘Zombies, Run!’ here on the ZRC blog, but the app is out for download /purchase now, and The Guardian has a typically insensitive and cruel review up: It may seem odd that running is required to escape “the walking dead”, but an engaging story provides a better [...]
John Sears | March 29, 2012
Fear Net has a review up of a new Anti-Zombie game for the 3DS called ‘Zombie Slayer Diox’, and it’s not pretty: Zombie Slayer Diox, on paper, sounds like a hell of a lot of fun: a portable title for the Nintendo 3DS that casts you as a headbanging hunter of the hungry dead that [...]
John Sears | March 8, 2012
You get this subset of Anti-Zombie fiction a lot, actually: the notion that the Nazis would, naturally, want to create Zombies for nefarious purposes. It has a long history, going back at least to ‘King of the Zombies’ in 1941, a dreary Scooby-Doo grade story about the good White Americans crashing on a Caribbean island, [...]
John Sears | February 26, 2012
And it’s not the first one either, apparently: This isn’t a Resident Evil first, as RE has already seen manga iterations. This latest one is set in a prestigious Asian institution, located on an isolated island. When there’s a zombie outbreak, Chris Redfield is sent into investigate. How many isolated laboratories in remote locales ARE [...]
John Sears | February 4, 2012
I really don’t have a lot to say about ‘Revelations’ at this point; the ZRC doesn’t own a 3DS, which is apparently not as uncommon as Nintendo would like, and the old marketplace of ideas is pretty flooded right now with RE titles, remakes, HD releases and the like. Still, for a summary of the [...]
John Sears | January 27, 2012
Anime News Network brings us the latest tidbits on upcoming Anti-Zombie ‘games’ from our trading partners across the Pacific: The Onechanbara games started off in the Simple 2000 series, essentially the PlayStation 2 equivalent of Roger Corman’s trash-cinema studios. And like the rare B-movie that hit it big, Onechanbara rose from its budget-label origins on [...]
John Sears | January 24, 2012
As a kid I got into, and then out of, Minesweeper, the perennial computer timewasting game. Before the era of the Angry Birds it was the definitive time-wasting little game, but with a million little games and apps to kill your idle moments on smartphones and portable devices I think it’s fallen to the wayside [...]
John Sears | January 21, 2012
The long-awaited (dreaded in our circle) sixth entry in the ‘Resident Evil’ series has now been formally announced with a lengthy trailer outlining the, ahem, plot and detailing some of the graphic and tragic violence it will promote against virtual, and later perhaps less-virtual, Zombies: As teased at NoHopeLeft.com and GameStop advertising materials, Resident Evil [...]