Top Notch Zombie Video Games this Year

People have shown a keen obsession towards zombie-based things ever since “Night of the Living Dead” (1968) entered pop culture. The genre evolved several novels, comics, movies, TV shows and finally video games.

Players have always been looking forward for some zombie mayhem on their video game consoles or PCs. There are several types of zombies portrayed in the games; some are slow, the others are fast and more aggressive, while some others are responsive to sound and smell.

Here is a list of zombie video games that players need to try out:

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Are You Prepared for Zombie Apocalypse?

Your team is decimated.

You’re surrounded by zombies. And they’re closing in.

Normally, you lean forward, turn off your console, step away and play again once you’ve had the opportunity to regroup.

But you can’t. Because this isn’t a video game. It’s real. What do you do?

This is the feeling that IRL Shooter are trying to create with their live first-person shooter game Patient 0. And it sounds more immersive than any video game experience ever. Welcome to the apocalypse.

“Real” zombies, guns and fear

The last decade demonstrates an unrequited love for zombies. They now permeate every aspect of culture from television, movies and videogames to maths and literature to zombie fun runs and nerf games. The undead truly seem unstoppable.

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Trent Shy Takes In Zombies

Though everyone is getting ready to tune in to the usual Xmas time Rankin and Bass (and rightly so), we would like to take this time to point you towards something just as fine but much, MUCH darker!

Claymation artist and wizard Trent Shy is back with another blood-spattered short for you cats to chew on. According to Shy, this latest bit of gooey goodness is “inspired by the films I love, grindhouse cinema, and the VHS tapes I grew up watching. No plot and lots of blood and monsters.”

To that we give a hearty and ROUSING amen. Check it out below, and keep an eye out for more from Trent as soon as he decides that it’s time to get his hands dirty again. Enough talk! Time to bleed!

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SciFi Spin on Zombies

Lean, muscular and on the money, “The Last Days on Mars” takes a familiar story and tells it so tautly that we are pleased to be on board.

The debut feature for Los Angeles-based Irish filmmaker Ruairi Robinson and written by Clive Dawson (from a short story by British science-fiction writer Sydney Bounds), “Mars” has its own take on a narrative that has points in common with Ridley Scott’s “Prometheus” as well as Sebastian Cordero’s well-received “The Europa Report.”

The film is set during the last 19 hours of an early manned mission to Mars, and the Aurora 2’s nine crew members are barely holding it together. Driven and tactless scientist Kim Aldrich (an expert Olivia Williams) is cranky about having to leave without making a major discovery, while chief systems officer Vincent Campbell (Liev Schreiber), the mission’s go-to guy, and his comrade-in-arms Rebecca Lane (Romola Garai) just want these final hours to go smoothly.

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Evolution of Zombies?

From today’s Walking Dead #118, by Robert Kirkman, Charlie Adlard and Stefani Gaudiano, published by Image Comics.

The book is really living up to its arc title, All-Out War, rather than showing one battle, it’s showing a number, happening simultaneously, some on pause, some on retreat, some moments even tranquil, a war of gins, of fists, of knives and of words. The final aspect will no doubt be the turning point for the conflict between Negan’s factions and Rick’s.

Also, cool single speech balloon double page spread, that’s heading for a T-shirt near you soon.

But there was one plot point that stuck out. Through the ten years of the comic, the zombies have remained ever thus. The George Romero model, rising from the dead after rigor mortis has set in, stumbling, jerking, slow, unyielding creatires. And in The Walking Dead, they are a given, people can work around them, thy are a force of nature that can be worked with as well as fought against.

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Micro-Zombies from Living Cells

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have engineered ‘zombie cells’ – undead replicas of animal cells that may actually be stronger than their living counterparts.

According to a report at Energy.gov, biologists at UNM’s Sandia National Laboratories have developed a method of embalming the cell of a mammal with silica to create a functioning replica of the original. The silica acts as a kind of armor plating; when exposed to extreme temperatures the original cell was destroyed… but the silica copy continued functioning.

 

Bryan Kaehr, head of the research team, says the term “zombie” is fitting because, unlike mummies, which only imitate the appearance of the living, these preserved dead cells just get up and go about their cellular business.

 

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Complex Genre Takes Stage in Sundance Film Lineup

LOS ANGELES – Genre-bending films dominated the 2014 lineup announced on Wednesday for the U.S. feature film competition at the Sundance Film Festival, the top U.S. festival for independent cinema.
The competition will showcase 16 films spanning serious and comedic efforts, with many fusing together the traditional cinematic conventions of different genres.

“They kind of struck us as surprising, a lot of the storylines this year, especially in competition. A lot of them were unexpected,” John Cooper, director of the Sundance film festival, told Reuters.

Examples of films that cross genres include the zombie romance “Life After Beth,” written and directed by Jeff Baena and starring Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza, and “Jamie Marks is Dead,” a ghost comedy by writer-director Carter Smith.

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Math Says We Can Survive Zombie Apocalypse

Building on the work of another paper about how a zombie apocalypse would go down, because that’s a thing mathematicians apparently work on, Caitlyn Witkowski of Bryant University and Brian Blais of Brown University have written a paper on their mathematical findings that a zombie apocalypse wouldn’t wipe us all out, so that’s comforting.

For their paper, which was published on the arXiv pre-print server, the two sat down and binge-watched zombie movies, which makes us very jealous that we didn’t pursue a career in mathematics. They came to the conclusion that there are two separate kinds of zombie plagues: the Dawn of the Dead kind, where dying turns people into zombies whether they’ve been bitten or not, or the Shaun of the Dead kind, where a person needs to be mauled, or at least bitten, by the undead to become a zombie.

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