A while back I wrote about Don’t go zombie a marketing/viral game from Virgin Trains. It was a clever idea, making use of Google Maps so that you’d have to battle through zombies in your local area in order to get to a particular destination. If you got caught then you’re Facebook friends would have […]
Zombies Articles
Delve into our stories on Zombies. This collection covers topics in Geek Stuff, Games, and Movies.
Zombies vs Mutants: Animated timeline of nuclear explosions
Just the other day I was thinking about the quirks of running a post apocalyptic RPG. These days the fashionable echoes of the apocalypse tend to be zombies. Zombies that shadow our own death and current cultural concerns about bio-engineering. Roll back a few years and the post apocalytic scenarios tended to be nuclear in […]
Don’t go zombie: the Virgin Trains game of head shots and zombies
I think the point of this game is to suggest that travelling around your otherwise safe and familiar neighbourhood would be dangerous if it was filled with zombies. No, wait, that’s not it. I think the point of the game is to show you that the daily commute can turn you into a zombie. If […]
Deliver me to Hell: an interactive zombie survival game on YouTube
This is seven circles of hell perfect. Hell Pizza in New Zealand have created an interactive YouTube game in which you have to survive zombie attack and deliver a pizza. It’s just like a Fighting Fantasty choose your own game except with videos (and, well, no dice). The game gets you started by watching a […]
Cute zombie animal plates
It takes a certain style to have dinnerware plates that are too good to go into the microwave. It takes a similar strength of style to have dinnerware that depicts cute zombie animals. These little terrors are just ideal for dinner. Pick them up for a mere $20 at the excellently named Third Life Studios.
Have your very own garden zombie
Do you have a garden? It needs a zombie. In fact, having studied this zombie for a while – I think it could work in other areas; as long as you can imagine the poor fellow clawing his way through the ground then it’ll work. Imagine the fun you’d have explaining to police, again and […]
The Goon trailer – new for Comic Con
In future evidence of just how powerful Comic Con has become we now have access to a new and superb trailer for The Goon. This isn’t a movie of Diana Wynne Jones‘ Archer’s Goon but an animated zombie flick. It’s based on the The Goon: Rough Stuff by Eric Powell. What we have here are […]
Watch before it’s yanked: The Walking Dead trailer
We’ve already had Captain Jack’s Comic Con address make it online. Now we’ve got a long trailer for The Walking Dead air at Comic Con and make it to YouTube. I can only imagine the crowd was asked not to record the trailer. Maybe not. Whatever the situation; we do now have 4 plus minutes […]
Brad Pitt wins bidding war over zombie movie World War Z
MTV have a good scoop on the future of Max Brooks‘ World War Z series. The author confirmed that Brad Pitt would be doing the movie. The rights to the novel had been in a bit of a bidding war between Plam B Entertainment (Brad Pitt’s company) and Appian Way (Leonardo DiCaprio‘s company). Judging from […]
Alien Swarm – Valve’s free game
On Monday you’ll be able to get Alien Swarm from Valve for free. Here’s the deal; Alien Swarm was a top-down, four-player co-op from 2004. Turns out that Valve hired the team behind the game in 2008, had them work on L4D, Portal 2 but also Alien Swarm. Interestingly, Valve’s also releasing an SDK on […]
