Michael Jackson reportably collapsed at his home Los Angeles with cardiac arrest and died at the UCLA Medical center.
You can find more information about this tragic turn of events here.
You might be asking “Why is this being reported on a Zombie blog?” and the answer is very simple - In my opinion, Michael Jacksons song “Thriller” is easily the most recognisable and best zombie dance ever created.
You can listen and watch the thriller video on his official youtube page here.
Personally I’m going to mourn Michael Jackson’s passing by learning how to dance it.
Here are some resources which are going to help me to just that - a bunch of instructional videos, an image and a fantastic threadless shirt.
The Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) is over for another year and so its time to round up all the Great Zombie Related Games Announced!
Undead Knights (PSP)
In Undead Knights you get to play all three members of a family who have made a deal with a demon - and can now turn people into, and control, zombies.
The Game looks Interesting and there has been blessed few games where you actually get to play as zombies - since the excellent Stubbs the Zombie.
I also like the promised mechanic of using your Zombie army to solve puzzles.
A multiplayer game at heat, Zombie Apocalypse drops your characters (and your friends, if you have them) into a level - and you have to fight off/survive the oncoming hordes of the undead.
This game looks like good, wholesome and mindless fun. It actually reminds me of a lot of top down sprite shooters that I have played in the past - brought into the present day.
You can read a comprehensive review of this game here at Gamespot.
“Featuring new Survivors, boss zombies, weapons, and items, Left 4 Dead 2 offers a much larger game than the original with more co-operative campaigns, more Versus campaigns, and maps for Survival mode available at launch.”
I would just like to say a quick note to Valve: Take my money, go on, take it, It’s yours. it’s going to belong to you anyway.
Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles (Wii)
This actually looks really enjoyable.
You can find a full preview and screenshots here at Kombo.
Dead Rising 2 (PC, PS3, XBOX360)
I played the original Dead Rising a lot and wrote a very (to my standard) comprehensive review on the game.
I loved the game - despite its many faults (*cough* OTIS *cough*) and despite the fact that it was trying to give me a stress induced heart attack.
You can find a lot more information about it on its wiki page, and here is a gameplay trailer.
KOMO News is reporting that a man dressed as an Umbrella Corporation Security Force Employee on his way to a Zombie crawl for promoting the Crypticon Horror Convention was detained by police.
He was only detained for a short time - enough time for the police to ensure that his knives, machine gun and grenades were all made of plastic.
Apparently somebody saw the heavily armed umbrella corporation mercenary walk into the shopping mall and thought they were under attack.
Heaven knows what they thought about the actual zombie crawl, that happened later that day.
You can see a video here of police handling the plastic grenades in a plastic evidence bag.
