Day Z

 

It was an odd coincidence that I had heard of the Arma 2 mod Day Z, which turns the war simulation shooter into a zombie survival game, while Rybot was also getting into playing the game. With such serendipitous circumstances, it is only fitting I post up a great intro to the game, which has blossomed into a series of episodes where you get to watch shit get crazy without the stress of actually playing.

Bin Undead

Zombieland

I don't think I'm going to be able to ride Pirates Of The Caribbean without worrying if a horde of zombies are going to attack...

Divector8 made a couple of custom Left 4 Dead 2 maps that sends the players on vacation that turns the happiest place on Earth into the mosty terrifying. You can take a calm, zombie-free tour of the Indiana Jones Adventure: Temple Of The Forbidden Eye ride, or if you want to elevate your blood pressure, SG-1 does a gory, multi-part tour (1 / 2 / 3) against the brain eaters, giving new meaning to "there's zombies in the employees only room".

Not Such A Wonderful World

The First Wave Of Attacks?

You can clip it out of the paper and put it in your scrapbook, because it could be one of those "I told you so moments". Of a zombie attack.

A Metairie resident is recovering after a stranger bit a chunk of flesh out of his arm and swallowed it Saturday afternoon.

Joseph Lancellotti, 67, told authorities he did not know the suspect, later identified as Mario Vargas, 48, or why he was attacked in his front yard. Lancellotti was gardening at his home in the 4400 block of Kawanee Avenue about 2 p.m. when he noticed a man walking toward his house, shouting angrily, the report said. Lancellotti said he couldn't understand the man because he was yelling in Spanish. But when the man got within two feet, he slugged Lancellotti in the head, the report said.

Lancellotti said he tried to defend himself with a garden rake. As the men struggled over the rake, the stranger bent over and bit Lancellotti on his right forearm, the report said. Lancellotti's flesh ripped away as he fell to the ground. The man then got on top of Lancellotti and began choking him, the report said. It was then that neighbor Chantal Lorio, a podiatrist and director of the Wound Center at East Jefferson General Hospital, came out to check on Lancellotti. Lorio said Monday that she first thought Lancellotti was having a heart attack and the other man was trying to help him.

The stranger was still gripping Lancellotti as Lorio noticed her neighbor was lying in a pool of blood. She didn't learn what happened until she began dressing the wound -- with the stranger still clutching her neighbor's shirt. "He said, 'He bit my arm, chewed the flesh and swallowed it in front of me, ' " Lorio recalled. She said the bite measured almost 3 by 1 1/2 inches, and was less than 1/4-inch deep. The pair tried to calm the stranger, who never made any attempt to run away. He eventually let go of Lancellotti and walked two blocks to a parking lot, where he hovered near an empty police car, the report said. The suspect was still standing there when deputies arrived and took him into custody.

Vargas, of 724 Camp St., New Orleans, was booked with second-degree battery. He was being held Monday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna in lieu of $25,000 bail. Lancellotti's wife, Bonnie, 60, said Monday that her husband was recovering from the bite, physically and mentally. She said his sense of safety in his neighborhood has been shaken. With all the bacteria involved, Lorio said a bite from a human is worse than an animal bite.

Bonnie Lancellotti also has concerns about the suspect, who apparently had been treated at East Jefferson General Hospital earlier in the day for a finger injury. Vargas was released 45 minutes before the attack, according to the incident report. Bonnie Lancellotti wondered whether hospital staff noticed anything amiss while treating Vargas. "This person's clearly lost his sense, " she said. "I mean, what else can you say, eating people's skin?" Keith Darcey, spokesman for the hospital, said, "We cannot comment on any individual patient because of privacy laws. But as a matter of general hospital policy, the emergency department has behavioral health nurses available to help diagnose patients who might require mental health assistance."

Flashy

There are over 150 of the top flash games here, selected from the thousands online as researched and tested by Tech Cult. And these are some that I'd played incessantly in the past and agree are a great way to waste a day...it's Friday - go ahead!

Bowmaster

Bowmaster has some strategy and RPG elements, but you will win the game with the accuracy of your aim. All you have is your bow, and you need to defend your castle from a horde of assaulting ogres. Your mouse controls both the direction and the power of the arrows.

Click here to play Bowmaster

Zuma

On Zuma, you have a train of jewels that move along a track, and on the center of the scenario you control a frog that spits jewels of different colors. Your objective is to align three or more jewels of the same color to make them pop, making sure that the train will not reach the end of the track. Cool graphics and sound effects complement the game.

Click here to play Zuma

Tennis Game

The classic tennis game (remember the one for NES...pretty much the same thing). Use the arrow keys to move and space to hit the ball. The arrows control the direction of the hit as well. You can play either an exhibition match or the world championship. Simple but addictive.

Click here to play Tennis Game

Boxhead

Massacre all the box-headed zombies. In your arsenal, you’ll find guns, UZIs, shotguns, explosive barrels and even hand grenades! Part of the fun is not having a time limit, so you can construct bottlenecks and destroy massive amounts of constantly replenishing undead!

Click here to play Boxhead

Bejeweled

This is the same well-known game where you have to swap adjacent gems to align a set of three or more similar gems, and make combos and cascades to score more points. The game has two versions: a normal and a timed one, and is a good substitute for those who don't own a Treo or iPhone already loaded with it.

Click here to play Bejeweled

Deanimator

Based on a "certain horror story", you get to play as "Dr. Herbert West". You start with a revolver, six bullet chambers, and a bunch of zombies to take down. Reload timing is important here. Once you get a shotgun, use the shift key to switch between the two weapons.

Click here to play Deanimator

I can't believe they left out Parking Zone, which is super fun too.

Undead Is The New Reality

If you've ever watched an episode of a shitty reality TV series like Big Brother or Survivor or The Pick-Up Artist and wished everybody involved would just get ripped apart by rampaging zombies, then you're about to feel seriously awesome.

The UK miniseries Dead Set airs this week (sadly only in the UK), and it's all about what happens to the cast and crew of Big Brother when a zombie plague hits England. The cool, authentic part? It's all filmed on the Big Brother set!

In the first episode, we watch the oddly mundane reactions that our reality TV crew have as the zombie plague starts spreading. At first, they're just seeing it broadcast on the news as "rioting," and because they're in their studio bubble nobody is quite sure what's going on. The main thing they're worried about is that their giant Big Brother Reunion special might get bumped for the news.

Once the zombies take over, though, the show really starts to move. Not because the zombies are fast — which they are, 28 Days Later-style — but because they zero in on what the point of this angry little series really is. Especially when the only people left alive are the reality TV stars on the locked set, slowly melting down as they realize Big Brother isn't watching them anymore. The only ones watching are growling, gore-soaked zombies. Fittingly, reality TV has become ground zero of the zombie invasion, as well as the one place that's already so zombified that it can withstand the rotting onslaught.

Dead Set is five episodes..but there could always be more. The undead don't stay down for long.

Dive Of The Dead

Yeah, that's a zombie fighting a shark. Because it's Monday morning, and you need it.