Love is in the air in The Walking Dead

During a recent interview with The Walking Dead‘s Executive Producer, Writer and Showrunner Scott M. Gimple by a reporter from AMC, he revealed many details about Season 5 and compared it to Season 4, hinting — among many other topics — that love will be brewing between two of the characters. Of course, zombies will still abound and be the paramount danger the characters face on a daily basis. Gimple wrote the Season 4 Finale, “A” and the premiere episode of Season 5.

Have no fear, fans of The Walking Dead — there will still be zombies and action galore in Season Five. As Scott M. Gimple put it, love and romance will not “be an element in a huge part of the season,” but when love enters into the plot, according to Gimple, “it’s going to become more of a reality and a complication.

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New Counter-Strike Video Game Features Zombies

Counter-Strike is one of the most popular online shooters of all-time. The terrorist vs. counter-terrorist gameplay has had gamers hooked for decades. Valve’s multiplayer FPS has had longevity in spades, thanks in part to regular updates, a wealth of content, and the sheer quality of the Valve series. It’s also been a franchise that has inspired fans to create their own content. After all, Counter-Strike initially released as a fan-made mod. Valve, always known for taking an active interest in its community of fans, then took on the creators, Minh “Gooseman” Le and Jess Cliffe, as employees.

That said, it’s always been rare for Valve to licence out its titles to other developers and publishers but Counter-Strike Online is one of those few instances. Valve licensed the Counter-Strike title to developer Nexon, who created the free-to-play CS Online game in 2008. After the success of sequel Counter-Strike Online 2, Nexon revealed this week that it is working on Counter-Strike once more – only this time, there are zombies in the mix.

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Survival Games Get Past Zombies and Crafting

Survival games are normally bleak affairs. Tense, unforgiving simulations of desperation and death. So why is it that playing Eidolon, a survival game, feels so...peaceful?

I'm someone who is in love with the idea of a survival game, but rarely with their execution. The prospect of eking out a living from nothingness still sounds original (despite the glut of titles being made in this post-Minecraft world) to me, while fighting the elements instead of a procession of aliens/monsters/Russians sounds like a challenge more suited to brains than reflexes.

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Why Run from Zombies in Edinburgh Festival

I'm certain about very little, but one thing I know for sure is that, as a middle-aged woman, I am not the target audience for The Generation of Z, the zombie show that has people scream their heads off in the Container Yard at the back of Edinburgh's George Square. The scenario is simple: there's a deadly, infectious virus on the loose that turns people into zombies at one bite. The audience are the surviving members of the population who have been attracted to a former research facility by a flare. The army are also there, and suddenly they have an unexpected 100 people on hand as the zombies gather and attack. Oooh, scary.

If you enjoy screaming, you'll probably have fun at The Generation of Z, but it's more likely simply a result of the adrenalin than from the dramaturgy or any development of narrative or character. The idea is nifty, but its execution is poor and the storyline is pretty lame. Although there is a suggestion that we can influence the scenario, this is quite clearly not the case.

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Cedar Point Looks for Zombies for the Halloween Season

Cedar Point is already looking forward to the lucrative Halloween season.

The park put out a call Tuesday looking to hire workers for everything from food to ride operators to so-called Screamsters for its 18th annual HalloWeekends event.

The park hires 300 Screamsters annually who are transformed into witches, zombies and various other monsters to scare guests.

The park is providing bus transportation to and from Bowling Green State University, Oberlin College, Kent State and the University of Toledo for students who want to work at the park this fall.

The park also offers free weekend housing to those who qualify.

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Pride and Prejudice..and Zombies

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies," the long-in-development movie based on Seth Grahame-Smith's hit mash-up novel, has found new life.

After weathering a series of stops and starts, the film is finally set to begin shooting in September, with Burr Steers directing from a screenplay he wrote with David O. Russell, according to a Deadline report. Cross Creek Pictures has acquired domestic rights.

Lily James ("Downton Abbey") will play Elizabeth Bennet, Sam Riley ("Maleficent") will play Mr. Darcy, and Bella Heathcote ("Dark Shadows") will play another of the Bennet sisters.

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Undead Lab will Disclose New Game Next Week

State of Decay studio Undead Labs has announced it will unveil a new game on Monday, and it's not a sequel to State of Decay. According to a spokesperson on Twitter the game is "not at all a zombie game", promising emphatically there will be "No zombies" and "no Microsoft". The latter is a reference to the game's console exclusivity, but I suppose you can take it to mean whatever you want.

This doesn't mark the end of the studio's continued support for State of Decay, with the spokesperson adding "did you know that a studio can make more than one game at once?" Some people seem a bit confused on this point, as Rust developer Facepunch Studios discovered this week.

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