Zombie Apocalypse Invades Champions

First there was Marvel Zombies. Now they're invading the Champions Universe. Too bad those two universes don't have their own versions of the NCRPC. We'll stick our own, superhero-free reality, thanks. more

The Zombie Game Experiment

This game rocks. Because it has a cat launcher as a weapon.

Or it will, eventually. more

Zombie Simulator, Now With Nukey Goodness

It's a zombie infection simulator which includes:
* zombies (w/ time to eat, lifespan / increased lifespan from eating, and ability to break down walls)
* civilians (w/ panicability and breeding speed)
* military (w/ ability to recruit back up to their starting numbers, and ability to use pocket nukes under duress that will take out a bunch of zombies at once)

You gotta love a simulation that isn't afraid to resort to pocket nukes. more

Zombies Wanted...

To SHOOT AT! AHAHAHAHA!

We're kidding, we just want zombies because we like the way they smell...

Nope, kidding again, we really want them to SHOOT AT! AHAHAHAHAAAAAA! more

You've got zombies in my Stormtroopers!

No, not Nazi zombies. STAR WARS Stormtrooper zombies. Truly, these are dark times for the galaxy. more

Zombie Revenge

Before there was Left 4 Dead and Resident Evil 5, there was...ZOMBIE REVENGE for the Dreamcast, with bad Engrish and everything. more

Nihilistic's CEO Dies, Returns As Zombie

We told him not to make a zombie game. more

Alive 4 Ever

...nothing like Left 4 Dead. Not at all. Nope. more

Remember the Tycoon Game Craze?

Neither do we, but it's clear zombies did. It just took them forever to get around to making their own game. Because zombies are slooooow. Thus we now have the shambling travesty known as...ZOMBIE TYCOON! more

Zombie Pets

Aww come on, you know you want one. more

Zombies Go to School...

Get shot. And this is news? Seriously?

What, you only like zombies when they're family and friends in offices complexes and outdoor parks, because...violent shootings NEVER HAPPEN THERE...right? more

ARG Zombies

No, no ARGH! zombies. Augmented Reality Game zombies! Cute little virtual ones you can kill with Skittles! Which is awesome if only because Skittles have finally realized their true nature, to be weaponized as a tool to fight off undead hordes. more

Where No Zombie Has Gone before

Zombies...the Dead Frontier. These are the voyages of a postapocalyptic survivor. His continuing mission: to explore a zombie infested city; to seek out dead life and dead civilizations; to boldly survive where no one has survived before. more

Triffids vs. the Undead

Just kidding, it's Plants vs. Zombies! If there's a better way to kill zombies, we don't know it. more

More Games Than You Can Shake a Brain At

There are many zombie games. It must be true, the Washington Post tells you so. more

Zombie Tower Defense

We admit it. This is a hopelessly addictive game with no strategic value whatsoever, since everybody knows that zombies don't walk in a straight line -- they sort of stumble around like drunken sailors. That doesn't make it any less fun. more

Fight back against the zombie menace this Easter

In celebration of Zombie Outbreak 2009 this Easter Sunday, it’s time to take a look at how gaming handles the zombie menace. more

Zombie Apocalypse

Talk about your realistic simulation: Four different characters survive 55 days of zombie madness. It's like Robotron. Only with zombies. more

More Zombies Than You Can Shake a Stick At

A mix and match set of plastic zombies. It contains 4 sprues with everything from fat zombies to buff zombies, rotting shirt zombies to suit zombies. more

Better Dead Than Zed!

All Things Zombie have done it again. Unlike other zombie games, where the zombies have been around for awhile, you won’t be able to tell the humans from the zombies until maybe it’s too late. Will you have what it takes to survive the first 30 days? Then what? Man, we hope so. Because with this economy, nobody's paying us enough to help you. more

Last Night on Earth

Last Night on Earth, The Zombie Game is a survival horror board game that pits small-town Heroes head-to-head against a limitless horde of Zombies (players can play on the Hero team or as the Zombies). But we recommend heroes, because only weirdos and freaks play as zombies. more

Zombie Horde 3

Remember Zombie Hordes 1 and 2? Good times, good times. Well now there's Zombie Horde 3. Commence denaimation! more

Gunrox: Zombie Encounter

Like the real thing. Only smaller with cuter zombies. more

Welcome to Zombieville USA

Population: 1. more

Zombie British Invasion

Look out Left 4 Dead, Killing Floor is on the way to settle the score with a 6 player zombie killin' co-op. more

New Training Simulation!

What would you do if a zombie outbreak happened tomorrow?

No, curling up into a ball and crying for your mommy isn't the answer.

Blowing your own head off with a shotgun? Not a great option either.

In fact, we don't have a simple answer. The right answer is the one that works best for you. And the only way to determine that is to go through a simulation, like the one at Survive The Outbreak. more

Resident Evil 5: Okay, It's NOT Racist

The NY Times doesn't think Resident Evil 5 is racist and neither should you!

Unfortunately, the assessment of the game overall is dead (ahem) on -- RE5 waffles between the occasional zombie jumping out to scare the crap out of you and a steady stream of zombie gut-squishin'. What is this, Gears of War? more

Resident Evil 5: Yep, Still Racist

Look, in case you haven't heard, zombies originated in non-white cultures first. Look it up, we'll wait.

Anyway, things have come full circle. Now, when you actually portray zombies as, ya know, ZOMBIES, it's a bit of a problem because, well, we don't know if you looked in the mirror lately but you're a nerdy white guy and your enemies ain't. This is the dangers of playing video games that have some semblance to reality. You fantasy gamers can stick with your green-skinned orc analogues any day, the rest of us have to shoot zombies and feel guilty about it.

There's just one thing to do. Kill 'em all and let the zombie lawyers sort it out. more

What Not to Wear...to a Zombie Apocalypse

Everybody's dying all around you and people are screaming for your brains. We know what you're thinking: OMFG, what do I WEAR to a zombie apocalypse? We have no idea, dude. But the folks at Games Radar know what you shouldn't wear, and it includes anything that makes you look like a hottie.

For the record, hot women everywhere have our permission to dress as an "out-of-our-price-bracket Shanghai hooker" once it comes time to repopulate the human race. more

Resident Evil 5: Costing an Arm and a Leg

As if zombies weren't bad enough, they are now littering Trafalgar Square...with their BODY PARTS! Stupid zombies.

Those who can find the most zombie body parts on Thursday morning, March 12, and deliver them to Westminster Bridge by 11 a.m. will win a holiday to Africa. Take that, people who say Resident Evil 5 is racist! more

Game Review: Left 4 Dead

If you think about it, the zombie survival genre has a lot in common with first-person shooters (FPS). Granted, it didn't start out that way – Night of the Living Dead was more focused on the survival than the zombies, and with slow-moving zombies our protagonists could run right past the hordes of undead. With fast zombies all the rage, most prominently on display in the remake of Dawn of the Dead, the distinction between zombies and hordes of mooks is even less apparent. Its surprising it took this long for someone to finally make a FPS that's just about killing zombies

"I'll see peace back on Earth if I gotta murder every one of these bastards with my bare g-ddamn hands!"--Bill

Left 4 Dead takes the FPS genre one step further and makes it a four-player team (the "4" in the title is no accident) that can be played co-op, online, or even multiplayer teams of four survivors vs. four player-controlled zombies. Divided into chapters and presented like a movie, the action starts immediately with four zombie survival stereotypes: the combat-weary war veteran (Bill, voiced by Jim French), the white collar black guy (Louis, voiced by Earl Alexander), the tough-as-nails biker dude (Francis, voiced by Vince Valensuela), and the hot chick (Zoey, voiced by Jen Taylor). Their goal is simply to survive by fighting their way through wave after wave of zombies, with the occasional super-zombie thrown in to spice things up.

That's it. That's all there is to Left 4 Dead.

And yet that simple summary doesn't do the game justice. Just as Gears of War revolutionized how cover and reloading was handled in FPS, Left 4 Dead is first and foremost a perfected multiplayer experience.

"Look on the bright side; even if you guys die, I'll still be really handsome!"--Francis

Friends can take over one of the four characters at any time, and if they're idle too long, the computer takes over. Players vote on everything, including when to skip boring sequences like summaries. And yet combat summaries are there if the group is so inclined, ranging from headshots to number of zombies killed to the amount of damage taken.

For the players who are fond of running off and being a hero, Left 4 Dead forces group teamwork: Smoker and Hunter zombies pick off loners and are a death sentence for the victim unless comrades come to his aid. Idiots who run off by themselves are dead meat. Witch zombies, which attack whomever disturbs them, forces the team to stop and think about what they shoot. Even death isn't permanent – players reappear in safe houses as survivors (who just happen to be exact copies of the original cast) so that everyone can get back to doing what they love most: killing the killed.

Left 4 Dead is light on back-story, but that's not important to the multiplayer genre either. There's enough graffiti on the walls to figure out what happened, which in case you didn't guess already, involves people getting infected and becoming zombies. What makes Left 4 Dead even sweeter is how it embraces all its zombie tropes, from the levels (escape from a hospital, from a cabin in the woods, from the top of a skyscraper) to the characters (are all reminiscent of zombie movie tropes), to little touches like how the perspective shifts to black and white when a character is about to die – shades of Night of the Living Dead

"Mister, if one of us gets killed out here, I'm gonna shoot my way in there and beat you to death with my gun!"--Louis

Even the zombies themselves behave like bad actors. Although they can move fast when they sense prey, they die in all kinds of glorious and inglorious ways, stumbling as they lose unlife and limb. They can't even open doors, instead tearing at it with their bare hands.

The voice acting is superb, including the refreshingly confident yet feminine voice of Cortana from Halo 3, Jen Taylor. The dialogue is hilarious – Zoey's rant about "fast-moving zombies" is priceless. And there's even a Game Master-like AI Director who determines when and how to ramp up the tension against the players, precipitated by the appropriate horror-style music.

Left 4 Dead is so good that it's replaced my weekly Gears of War 2 games as the co-op game of choice. Look for Talien if you want some help surviving the zombie apocalypse

"I just can't get over how FAST they all are, it's not even fair. I'm calling zombie bull$#!+ on that, you know? They're not...ALLOWED to be so fast." --Zoey

Resident Evil 5 Out This Week!

Resident Evil 5 is back with all the zombie-blasting you love, only now it has online co-op! Sales are breaking records all over the place and the thing hasn't even gone on sale in the U.S. yet. The zombie invasion is nigh! more

Burn, Zombie, Burn!

Hey kids! Do you want to set zombies on fire?

Sure, we all do! Now you can do it even more on the PlayStation starting March 26 with Burn, Zombie Burn! The suspiciously named Bruce (named, of course, after The Man) and his less suspiciously named girlfriend Daisy explode a swath of destruction through zombie territory in six horror-movie-inspired levels. more

Like Squeezing Blood from a Zombie

The American Red Cross is teaming up with Resident Evil for a blood drive. On March 13 from 11-5 pm, fans of the game can trek over to World of Wonder in Hollywood, and those who donate some blood will receive special edition collectibles as well as a chance to win a copy of the game and even a customized Xbox 360.

BLOODY BRILLIANT! more

MegaMinis Release Zombies

MegaMinis recently teamed up with Two Hour Wargames and are redesigning their modern packs. 6 zombie packs are in the works (48 different figures) and the old MEM-80004 Zombies x 20 for $24.99 will be discontinued on May 30th 2009 with the contents going into portions of the new 6 packs. Don’t worry, single figures will remain from that pack at $1.50 each. Here are some new single editions to the site.

• DEAL-0605 Zombie eating own guts $1.50
• DEAL-0606 Zombie Disco Fever $1.50
• DEAL-0607 Zombie Pointing the way $1.50
• DEAL-0608 Zombie Head Bashed $1.50
• DEAL-0609 Zombie Swinging severed Leg $1.50
• DEAL-0610 Zombie Crawling $1.50

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Blood & Brains Now in Print!

Download Price:$7.95
Print Price: $14.95 $12.71 In Stock
Pages: 68
Size: 8.75 MB
Format: Landscape (screen viewing), Portrait (for printing)
Writer: Mike "Talien" Tresca
Cover:
SKU: RPO3010
ISBN: 978-1-935432-23-4
Game Lines: Modern System
Systems: Modern d20
Product Type: Supplement
Media Type: print, PDF

zombie (ZOM-bee): n. 1. According to voodoo belief, a supernatural power that can enter into and reanimate a corpse. 2. A corpse revived in this way. 3. One who looks or behaves like an automaton. 4. Target practice.

Our professionals at the National Center for Reanimation Prevention and Control (NCRPC) have done all the hard work so you don't have to - chopping, hacking, chainsawing, and blasting the bloody gibbets off of the shambling undead, all to make your life a little easier. If you've got a case of the zombie blues, this book's the cure.

Blood and Brains: The Zombie Hunter's Guide is a Modern supplement full of zombie hunting goodness, including:

• 10 new occupations
• a new organization (The National Center for Reanimation Prevention and Control)
• 16 new feats
• plenty of stuff to blow zombies up with, including the trench spike and Shaolin spade
• seven new combat techniques
• five new advanced classes
• three psionic powers and 37 spells
• madness and trust rules
• five new FX items
• and of course, lots and lots of zombies (over 20), including a random zombie generator

So what are you waiting for? Grab your shotgun and your axe and start the dezombification process in your local town today!

Evil Dead: Swallow This!

Download: NCRPC
Authors: Michael Tresca
Type: Role-Playing Game (D20 Modern Supplement)
Suggested Retail Price: FREE
Format: .pdf
Pages: 34
Description:

It's the 1990s and the Book of the Dead has just become the New York Time's bestseller. Oprah recommends it. Of course, Oprah's a deadite twin, but she was on TV long enough to tell the gullible masses about how great a book about sacrificing people to demons is. And of course, said gullible masses lap it up like the tripe-reading sheep they are.

One reading of the book caused mass havoc at Knowby's cabin and left several people dead. Imagine kids and adults everywhere reading the book out loud and opening portals to hell all across the globe.

The heroes have their work cut out for them and a variety of implements to cut with, including knives, axes, and chainsaws. Reality is a living hell - literally. But there's a catch.

The book has been used to summon demons, but it's also been used to send them back. If the PCs can just discover the right spell to send them backwards in time from the original book, they might have a chance to stop the madness before it starts.

If you've ever screamed, "Why don't you get a gun and SHOOT IT!" at the pathetic victims of any horror movie...this is the game for you.

Evil Dead: Swallow This! contains 2 new professions, 7 new uses for skills, 11 new feats, dozens of deadite-hunting equipment, 17 new spells, madness and time travel rules, 5 FX items, and 16 deadites to slay with.

Zombie Infection

A new game for mobile phones (specifically Motorola): Zombie Infection! Save New York from a virus attack that turns people into bloodthirsty zombies. more

Tapping of the Dead

I arrived at a glum conclusion the other day. When the Zombie Apocalypse comes to pass--it's really a question of when, not if--I doubt I'll survive it. The Tapping of the Dead: Deluxe Edition app for the iPhone and iPod touch only underscored my grim findings. If I can't defeat a crudely drawn, badly animated zombie by tapping my finger furiously for 12 seconds, what hope to I have against stinking hordes of the undead crashing through my patio door? more

Zombie Infestation: Strain 116

Days after a meteorite fell in the outskirts of a small town, people started changing into mindless “zombies.” It is believed that an alien virus, Strain 116, was the cause of the chaos.

You and your men, an elite team from the special forces, were sent in to kill the Carrier, who is believed to be the host of the virus. After much struggle though, all you team members have perished.

Now, alone and trapped within the dark and eerie confines of an abandoned bomb shelter, you must brave the hordes of the undead; kill the carrier, and get out alive. more