Zombie Pizza iPhone game temporarily free

If you own an iPhone or iPod Touch and want to check out the Zombie Pizza game, the publisher Appy Entertainment has dropped the price from $2 to free for a limited time.

I reviewed the game earlier this year, and I think it’s a fun casual game if you like pattern matchers like Frenzic. There’s already a free “lite” version available, but at least for today you can go ahead and grab the real thing without paying a dime.

iPhone app review: Zombie Pizza


Check out Zombie Pizza:

Full Version:
Zombie Pizza
Lite Version:
Zombie Pizza Lite


 

 

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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Review: “Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet”

Based on an urban legend, “Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet” takes a page from the folklore, which can’t even decide where the legendary events took place.

The movie tries too hard to play homage to the classic horror of “Friday the 13th” or “My Bloody Valentine,” while also attempting to be “intelligent cinema” by pumping in too much information about a rare mental disorder. (No spoiler here, as they bring it up in the opening credits, but there have only been 250 documented cases of menstrual psychosis in the last 100 years.)

It’s the typical slasher flick set-up: a group of teens celebrating a local-tragedy-turned-holiday, partying in the house of the girl whose parents have conveniently left town. And the clichés start racking up from there, from a cleverly-yet-transparently disguised Ouija board to the moment where all modes of transportation and communication are cut off from our teen heroes. Yawn.

Let’s hit the low points, so that we can end on a higher note. And yes, there is one. Read more

Posted on April 12, 2010 by Elysse West |
 
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Review: “The Atrocity Archives” and “The Jennifer Morgue” by Charles Stross

Here’s the easiest way to decide whether you’d enjoy the three novels, one novella, and three short stories that so far make up The Laundry, a horror/sf thriller series by Charles Stross. See how many of the following statements you agree with:

  1. I enjoy the idea of Lovecraftian horrors.
  2. I enjoy James Bond and/or other British spy series.
  3. I’m a geek, or at least I appreciate geek humor and geek terminology.
  4. I am familiar with and have contempt for the bureaucratic nonsense of large organizations. Specifically, I hate PowerPoints.
  5. I watched Animaniacs in the 90s.
  6. I like conspiracies.
  7. I enjoy sci-fi, and/or I like the idea of string theory and multiverses.

If you agree with at least four of those statements, give the Laundry books a shot.

Okay, more details: the stories take place in the present day, in our world, but there’s a lot about our world that various governments keep hidden from average schmucks like you and me.

For one thing, Alan Turing–the famous (and real) cryptographer who cracked German codes in WWII and is the sort of the father of computer science–uncovered a final mathematical proof that just happens to allow access to other universes in our multiverse. Sometimes there are very hostile entities in those other universes, things that feed on information and that can take hold of a person’s body, eat his mind, and spread by contact to other people in milliseconds. Read more

Posted on April 8, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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iPhone app review: Zombie Smash!

Castle defense games and zombie scenarios are both pretty tired concepts for the App Store, but despite that, Zombie Smash keeps me entertained. I think it’s a great go-to game when you want to kill a few minutes (and zombies) between more pressing activities. Read more

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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Jewelry for the fashionable zombie lover

I don’t know much about accessorizing, but I know that frequently one puts rings and bracelets on one’s body to achieve that “put together” look. If you’re one of those people, and if you love zombies, you need to know about Undead Ed.

Ed makes rings and bracelets (among other creepy and usually silly things) out of polymer clay and found objects, and he sells them on his Etsy store for reasonable prices. Let’s face it–you’re not likely to find rotting flesh designs at local boutiques, and to my great surprise maggot-themed jewelry still hasn’t caught on at the big department stores.

The gorgeous and oversized Zombie Eye ring above has already sold, unfortunately, but there’s still a blue one available, as well as bracelets and other zombie-themed rings. If you’d rather have zombie dolls and objects instead of jewelry Ed’s got plenty of other options for you; I really like the miniature zombie-piggy bank.

Undead Ed’s Art [Etsy via Boingboing]

Posted on March 29, 2010 by Chris Walters |
 
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