Do gamers live to kill the undead?
Just what is our preoccupation with firing shotguns at reanimated corpses? Traditional zombies move at a glacial pace, they mumble like stroke victims eating peanut butter and they can be stopped with simple decapitation, yet popular culture still marks them as some of the most formidable monsters ever conceived. When put like that, human beings come off as the cruel ones and zombies the helpless victims. To paraphrase Veronica from Heathers: What's our damage?
We associate zombies with modern video games like Resident Evil 5, Dead Rising and Left 4 Dead, where their sole purpose is to stand in front of the player's shotgun (or if you're lucky: chain-saw). We laugh as their heads pop like blood-filled piñatas and their severed limbs flop uselessly to the ground, but once upon a time zombies were used in literature to scare people silly.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
