I have heard a lot of frustration with the amount of zombie games that have come out and that are still coming out nowadays. Part of me is frustrated too, but I’m frustrated with the zombie games that are low in quality. The games that are just trying to jump on the zombie train and ride it to moneyville. I still love the zombie games that are good, innovative, and different. The upcoming MMO The War Z looks amazing. I am not the type to get into MMO’s cause I am too ADD with games but this is tempting me to jump in. The Dead Rising games have mixed reviews but is still one of my favorite series because I can pick up any object and wail on some zombies. This last weekend at PAX Prime 2012 I played Containment: The Zombie Puzzler. A very solid and different approach to zombie games. So what I am frustrated with is people complaining about zombie games. Just filter out the crap and give me that zombie killing goodness.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Day Z is the most innovative zombie game I have seen in the past few years.
It's becuase of all the Indie crap flooding the market. I can deal with games like Dead Island and Dead Rising but its when I access the android market on my phone and see Zombies vs Ninjas, Plants Vs Zombies, Zombies vs Your Mother etc etc. Then I log into PSN and its cropping up there as well.
+1 for DayZ - the ultimate zombie game.
CastleMiner Z also represents extreme value for money at 80MS points, blending Minecraftian construction with some epic co-op Zombie survival.
I haven't tried Zombies vs Your Mother yet; sounds intriguing (",)
I'd say that zombie films have traditionally been low quality as well, so it's only natural that the games follow suit. It's not a knock either. It seems like zombie (and many other type of horror) enthusiasts have mostly sustained themselves on B movies over the decades, since that's where the vast majority seem to reside. And B movies are, well, B movies. They're (most often) fun and shameless and simple. And formulaic. They're made for a specific crowd though, who have made a silent agreement with the genre to overlook the shortcomings and revel in the zombieness of it all.
I don't know, that's how I rationalize the whole zombie phenomenon in gaming.