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The Last of Us – Not a Verdict

The Last of Us – Not a Verdict

The Last of Us may be a good game. Many have declared it the greatest game ever, others have commented on its setting, its superb voice acting and the brutality that drives the plot ever onwards. And, as is becoming a frequent occurrence these days, I have an opinion on it. This is not a review however, I have not finished the game and I quite possibly never will. But I want to at least throw my grain of salt onto the scales of greatness and have my voice counted, even though it’s clearly attempting to swim against the current…

I don’t like it.

Deadlight Is A Thing Released Today

Deadlight Is A Thing Released Today

This had passed me by completely. After almost three months on XBLA,  Deadlight -a side-scrolling platformer with a strange mash-up of old-school mechanics and zombies – is hitting Steam today. We have a very dark trailer to give you a taste of delicious, delicious infected flesh.

The Walking Dead: Episode Two – The Verdict

The Walking Dead: Episode Two – The Verdict

Zombies are everywhere. Not in the literal shambling around eating your loved ones sense perhaps, but in terms of popular culture they’re ubiquitous. Comic books, films, TV series and of course games are rife with the bitey buggers. One zombie brand in particular has made the leap across multiple formats, from comic books, to TV and most recently to games.

AMC’s The Walking Dead television series, adapted from Robert Kirkman’s comics at first promised to be a breathtaking serialisation of the zombie apocalypse. We watched in our millions as that bloke from This Life and Teachers did his best silly American accent, all the while wielding a giant handgun that gaming’s finest zombie-killer (Barry Burton) would be proud of. It’s inevitable in zombie fiction, that the tale becomes not about the zombies themselves, but the breakdown of human society and the collapse of morality in an ailing world. It becomes about humans being human and humans turning in monsters of a different sort. Sadly, for the Walking Dead TV show, it also seemed to be about sitting around on a farm, awkward love triangles and silent black men standing in the corner, their only form of communication; the frantic look in their eye that screams ‘please, just give me one line this episode, just one! I promise I won’t mess it up’ It’s a show that frequently fails to deliver on the compelling premise and becomes mired in melodrama, though it sprinkles enough Zombie thrills that we yet retain some hope that it will eventually come good.

Mod Spotlight – DayZ

Mod Spotlight – DayZ

I am running. Running for my life. With two bullets remaining and a pair of zombies hot on my tail, the likelihood of getting out of this one is slim to none. Besides, even if I do manage to score a pair of lucky headshots, I’ll then be out of ammo, out of food and with absolutely no idea where I am or which direction I’m going in. In short, I’m screwed. Welcome to DayZ.

Metal Dead Looks Bloody Good Fun

Metal Dead Looks Bloody Good Fun

Heavy metal, zombies, point-and-click adventure, comedic. All fine words and phrases, and when brought together they can be used to describe Metal Dead a new adventure game from Australian indie, Walk Thru Walls. The story follows two heavy metal fans trapped in a medical research centre which is, you guessed it, infested with zombies. Metal Dead is available now for £2.99 on Desura. Hopefully we shall be taking a closer look at this one soon.

Time To Die2Nite

Time To Die2Nite

Free to play browser games are all the rage nowadays, you can’t enter a phrase into Google without one popping up saying ‘play me play me!’ Ignore any and all of them, Die2Nite is the game you want to be playing, especially if you like zombies.

Die2Nite Beta Key Giveaway

Die2Nite Beta Key Giveaway

Thanks to the guys behind browser based zombie-survival game Die2Nite we have 10 beta access keys to giveaway to some lucky readers. Die2Nite comes from French web game developers Motion-Twin and is a fun little survivalist game. Competition closed, congratulations to those lucky people. New giveaway here.

Dead Rising 2 – The Verdict

Dead Rising 2 – The Verdict

Zombies are everywhere in games nowadays, it seems like you can’t start up a game without some kind of zombie trying to kill you, it is a relief to come across Dead Rising 2 which gives you a different set of zombie problems, figuring out what is the best way to kill them.