zombies

Zombie game maker Techland joins Tencent’s global empire in latest acquisition

Tencent, one of the world’s largest gaming companies, is set to gobble up Techland, the Polish game developer known for open-world zombie games like Dying Light, adding yet another member to its

Disruptor Beam’s ‘Walking Dead: March to War’ puts you in the middle of a zombified Washington, D.C.

Disruptor Beam has already created games based on Star Trek and Game of Thrones. Next up is The Walking Dead, with the launch of The Walking Dead: March to War. To build the game, which was first anno

PassivDom is a Zombie-proof “autonomous 3D-printed mobile house”

It’s rare that I quote a company’s marketing tagline outright, but PassivDom, makers of an “autonomous 3D-printed mobile house,” sounds pretty darn rad. The Ukrainian company w

How To Plan For Your Startup’s Gruesome Demise

Having children is one of the happiest moments most people will ever enjoy, but it’s also when you need to first think the most seriously about death. The joyous excitement and freneticism that surr

How Venture Capital Incentives Promote Zombie Companies

It feels like every other day: Another company raises a massive round of funding. We tend to assume that a company that’s raising money must be doing well. However, the truth is that venture capital

“Zombie” Apps On The Rise – 83% Of Apps Not On Top Lists, Up From 74% Last Year

With the app economy showing no sign of slowing, the iOS App Store, too, continues to grow, and has now reached over 1.42 million apps, according to a new report out this morning from app analytics fi

Japanese Gaming Giant GREE Debuts Its First U.S.-Designed Title For Western Audiences

GREE, the $5.9 billion Japanese mobile gaming company making a big push in international markets, debuted its first-ever title designed by U.S. talent for Western audiences today. Taking the evergr

Video: Zombie Attack In Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/undeadnightmare.jpg" />Ha! Haters may say something like, “Looks like zombies are gaming's new ‘break glass in case of emergency’ g

Go To College, Take A Zombie Class

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/zombieclass.jpg" />One or two weeks ago we learned about a <a HREF="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/08/30/no-joke-university-of-florida-cl

Review: AAARR! AAARRR! Kill Zombies with Zombie ShootAR.

Zombie ShootAR (get it…AR as in Augmented Reality) is a fun and innovative first-person shooter for Smartphone that pits you against a legion of virtual zombies. You play the game by using your

Dear Internet: Please grow up re: Toyota zombie ad

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/toyota.jpg" />Really, Internet? Now you're being facetious. This is the ad for the new Toyota Corolla. It has zombies in it ("Equipped fo

28 billion zombies killed. And they're still coming!

Left 4 Dead 2 was released on November 17th, 2009. Since then, 28,981,249,043 zombies have met cruel and unusual, along with plenty of mundane and unimaginative fates at the hands of gamers everywhere

Zombie lawn ornament serves as an excellent neighbor deterrent

<img src="http://crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/zombie.jpg" alt="zombie" />Here's a friendly reminder that Halloween is right around the corner. The $90 "Zombie of Montclaire Moors" garden

Zombie Solid Snake: Makes about as much sense as the franchise

<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/metal-gear-snake-figure.jpg" /> I stopped playing Metal Gear games when Snake was in the jungle and saw a horse on a bridge and then Revo

Meet The Back-Up

[Autoplaying movie after the jump] I don’t know what’s better: that they embedded their video in a fake Quicktime player, or that it exists at all. I don’t have any longarms, but I&#

FBI Protects America By Fighting Zombies

As part of Operation Bot Roast (good god, guys, really?), the FBI has contacted more than one million people, telling them their PCs have been zombified. Someone at the Bureau is wise to the intricate