Yo Doomers,

ObZomb’s rigor mortis laden fingers are loose, juiced, and all a twitter after 45 minutes of web-based zombicide, playing this awesome little game from the dudes over at Crazy Monkey Games.

Why waste your life spell-checking word documents and processing TPS reports when you can waste it taking lives of the boundless undead hordes?

Check out Endless Zombie Rampage for some wholesome, flash-based, zombie killin’ fun.

Go ahead and click it. You know you want to.

Enjoy the gore,
Obvious

My Monstrous Militia,

Dead, nearly dead, and undead alike rejoice, ’cause it’s that time of the month again. Time take a look the latest group o’ gangrenous guts being gouged from the gullet and strewn about for all to see.

Later is Now, Baybah!
In case you had forgotten, 28 Weeks Later opens today and ObZomb (that’s me) says ‘Yes, yehaw, and yahoo!’ I cannot wait to feast my rotting ocular nerves upon what’s sure to be an awesomely good rip ’em up. I’m hoping we’ll get to see glimmers of Robert Carlyle‘s genius turn (IMHO) as Colqhoun in Ravenous show through a bit in 28 Weeks… man, that movie creeped me out!

Time to get yer ghoul on brethren, they’re at it again!

Marvel.com has posted a sneak peek of the double-gatefold cover art for Marvel Zombies: Dead Days #1, due out in stores May 9, 2007.

The image by zombie artist extraordinaire Arthur Suydam is a salute to X-Men #1 (Vol. 2) and is available for download in three different sizes over in the site’s wallpaper section.

Nintendo is inviting its (M)ature gamers to reach out and touch some undead. Yeah baby, touch me!

Game giant Edios Interactive‘s indie gaming arm Secret Stash Games is just about done putting together a horror survival game for the Nintendo DS handheld. The appropriately titled Touch the Dead — an M-rated game — will invite players to “point-and-shoot their way out of a prison teeming with the undead” while taking full advantage of the DS’s touch screen capabilities.

And in an awesomely cool move that has absolutely nothing at all to do with actual gameplay, Eidos has signed famed zombie artist Arthur Suydam to create an exclusive piece of cover artwork for the upcoming game. Check it out —–> Nice, right?

Suydam himself said, “Touch the Dead is the perfect game for me — zombies are what I do best!” Heck yes, it is!

Seriously, what better way to promote a zombie genre game then to hire the insanely awesome artist responsible for the covers of the monster-hit (puns, ha!) Marvel Zombies series to give it some street cred? I mean other than finally unleashing the unending hordes of undead upon the world, each armed with a copy of Touch the Dead and a DS stapled to their rotted mitts.

Touch the Dead will be available in stores across North America this Spring 2007.

Hordes,

While I never thought I’d have enough zombie-related news to do one of those ‘This Week In Zombie’ until the great zombie uprising began in earnest, I never let the dream die. Looks like my perseverance payed off, as I have been able to gather a few good zombifyed nuggets to share with y’all.

Let’s start with the obvious (ahem):

28 Weeks Later — Oh yes!
I look forward to making cinematic eye-love to the latest installment in Danny Boyle‘s not-quite-zombies-but-I’ll-take-what-I-can-get scarefest. Yes I do! Even though they’re really not Zombies per se, but rather like Beserkers, good ole Obvious welcomes all flesh-eating, virus-spreading, genocidal maniacs into the fold. With just a few more weeks to go before 28 Weeks Later hits the theaters, the rumblings of a third installment have already begun — tentatively titled 28 Months Later. The possibility of Months will doubtless live or die on the Box Office performance of Weeks, so I got my rotted fingers crossed. Fast-moving, scary-ass zombies … come to Papa!

Primetime Zombies — it’s about fucking time!
CBS TV is shooting a pilot called Babylon Fields, which is going to be a Zombie horror series. The ghouls over at Icons of Fright snagged some exclusive pictures of a gaggle of undead doing the boiler-plate emerging from a cemetery routine. Don’t let me down CBS, or I’ll be sending some real zombies down to show you how it’s really done.

We’re here. We’re dead. Get used to it.
That’s the tagline for indie flick American Zombie. Apparently, it’s a mockumentary chronicling the rise of the ‘non-living’ community in Los Angeles. It’s fairly obvious that American Zombie is intended as a comedy, and under most circumstances, I’m totally okay with that. When done right, Zombie comedy is genre that transcends the cultural divide — Shaun of the Dead, the Spierig brother’s Undead, and the Return of the Living Dead series are great examples of how funny we undead can be — and I’m hoping that American Zombie will be making its way to an Indie theater near me soon so I can see if it makes the cut.

Brisbane 2007 — Zombies take to the streets
Here are some great pictures from the Zombie Walk in Brisbane. It’s nice to see my people getting together and going out for a stroll.

Putridly yours,
Obvious