AMC has confirmed today that The Walking Dead will be represented at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego as it prepares for its Season 3 return:
The cast and producers of AMC's breakout hit series The Walking Dead will participate in an hour-long panel at this year's Comic-Con in San Diego, CA. Moderated by Talking Dead host Chris Hardwick, The Walking Dead panelists will discuss what fans can expect in the highly anticipated third season, which debuts in October.
The Walking Dead panelists include Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Wayne Callies, Laurie Holden, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, David Morrissey, Executive Producer and Showrunner Glen Mazzara, Executive Producer Gale Anne Hurd, Executive Producer Robert Kirkman and Co-Executive Producer and Special Effects Make-up Supervisor Greg Nicotero.
More Details • Autograph session on Fri., Jul. 13 at 10:45AM at Booth #3721 • Panel on Fri., Jul. 13 at 1:25PM in Hall H • Press roundtable interviews available on Fri., Jul. 13 at 3PM
AMC has shared a few season three production photos from the set of The Walking Dead (potential spoiler with the last photo below so don't scroll down if you don't want to confirm what you already know is inevitable).
We've got Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln), of course, looking like he's finally getting serious about disciplining Carl:
We've also got Michonne (Danai Gurira) in what we can only assume is her first reaction to meeting Laurie:
Here's The Governor (David Morrisey):
And back from the dead, it's the one and only Merle 'Lefty' Dixon (Michael Rooker):
San Francisco based design house Massive Black is looking for some Kickstarter support for Zombie Playground, a new RPG that they hope to launch that pits school kids versus the undead in a fight for their lives during the zombie apocalypse.
"In Zombie Playground you take on the role of a kid during a zombie apocalypse as seen through his or her imagination. Your school is overrun by the undead, and it's up to you and your friends to do whatever it takes to survive!
Zombie Playground is an online, team based, action arena game with RPG elements. Gameplay will be deep, challenging, and rewarding. The game combines childhood nostalgia with horrific monsters, visceral combat, and a unique atmosphere straight out of a child’s nightmares. We do want to make it very clear: this is not a game for kids!"
With 14 days to go, they are more than half way to their $100,000 goal. Check out their proposal and updates on Kickstarter to see if you want to contribute to Zombie Playground to help them get all the way to the finish line.
Paramount Pictures is reportedly turning to the co-creator of Lost to rewrite the already in production and allegedly already in trouble World War Z film.
The Hollywood Reporter says "ScreenwriterDamon Lindelof has been brought in to save Paramount’s zombie movie World War Z."
"Be PREPARED -- supply yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse with Zombie Max™ ammunition from Hornady®! Loaded with PROVEN Z-Max™ bullets...yes PROVEN Z-Max™ bullets (have you seen a Zombie?). Make sure your "bug out bag" is ready with nothing but the best!"
In an interview published today with Bill Nye the Science Guy, BetaBeat dared to ask the question on everyone's mind - "What do you make of this whole zombie apocalypse?"
“Apparently there are some drugs that can render you pretty useless,” Mr. Nye replied. “I joke all the time about how useless zombies are, though. Maybe they’re the antithesis of what’s cool now. What’s cool is to be quintuple-tasking at any time, moving fast, gettin’ ‘er done, and zombies–along with their slow movement–they seem indifferent to the world around them.”
“You don’t see a lot of zombies on Facebook,” he added.
ARTIFICIAL LIFE Launches Award Winning App Toy: Zombie Burbz
Hybrid Game Connecting Physical Toys, iPhones and iPad
HONG KONG, Jun 4, 2012 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) -- Artificial Life, Inc., an innovative investment company, announced today that its production studio ALife Studios, Inc. has developed and launched a smartphone app called "Zombie Burbz", which interacts with physical toy figures with WowWee Group Limited on iTunes.
Zombie Burbz is sold under the AppGear(TM) brand, which has won the Best of Toy Fair 2012 by Popular Science earlier this year.
Zombie Burbz consists of a collectible line of fun and infectious Zombie toy characters that players can move across their smartphone screen to interact and play the game. In the game, zombies are tired of being misunderstood by their neighbors. They're just the average, slowly decomposing suburbanites who want to keep up with the Joneses, not eat them. These undead trash-munchers need help to achieve the suburban dream, fight off angry mobs of the living and feed their craving for garbage.
Features:
-- 4 unique story lines (Avenue, Diner, Services or High School) and 64 missions in total -- Use the deluxe Zombie toy figure across the screen to control the in-game zombie action -- Control figures to unlock unique missions, abilities and enemies on smartphone to progress through the game -- Find and use traps and weapons to fight human hordes -- Fend off attackers with screams, burps, snotballs and other wretched weapons -- Trick enemies with stash-o'-cash, zombie-in-a-box, pinata and other treacherous traps -- Collect garbage to boost health -- Compatible with iOS devices, and will be compatible with a range of selected Android smart devices later this quarter
The game is now live on the Apple App Store and is available for free download at: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zombieburbz/id481595322?mt=8
"Collectable app toys are the latest trend in the world of toys and mobile gaming. We are excited to work with WowWee Group to bring these cool app toys to the market. This is a valuable opportunity for our ALife Studios as this partnership leads to a completely new and scalable business area which is expanding rapidly. We have developed two app toys so far namely "Zombie Burbz" and "Elite CommandAR", which made their debut at the CES in Las Vegas in January 2012. We will develop and release more innovative apps for toys soon. We hope this marks the beginning of a long term and fruitful relationship with WowWee Group Limited," said Eberhard Schoneburg, CEO of Artificial Life, Inc.
Medieval Zombies is a 2.5D sidescrolling platformer that combines skill with puzzle solving and exploration. You play as Earl Shovelhands and your mission is to help him defeat hundreds of zombies through a number of thrilling levels in a zombie infested land. Swing and hit zombies with your shovel hands, collect gems and coins on your way to find a wizard who can stop the zombie apocalypse!
Cry Wolf Studios has released their second game title for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices called Medieval Zombies. The game is released both in a free version and a paid for 0.99$.
Medieval Zombies is a 2.5D sidescrolling platformer that combines skill with puzzle solving and exploration. You play as Earl Shovelhands and your mission is to help him defeat hundreds of zombies through a number of thrilling levels in a zombie infested land. Swing and hit zombies with your shovel hands, collect gems and coins on your way to find a wizard who can stop the zombie apocalypse!
Cry Wolf Studios is a newly founded game development company, operating from Visby, Sweden. Their vision is to create the best games they possibly can. They are developing games for mobile platforms with focus on social interactions between players. Cry Wolf Studios goal is to create small irresistible, fun games that make people connect. http://www.crywolfstudios.net/
EA has just released this cool promo/short film for their upcoming Dead Space graphic novel:
"While patrolling the planet Uxor, Earthgov Sergeant John Carver witnesses an attack on the Marker Site he guards which changes his life forever. John must now fight his way through a colony now in complete chaos as he begins to discover how important he is in fighting the Necromorph plague.
This is just the start of John Carver's saga in the Dead Space Universe."
EA is also teasing a new announcement about the game, coming out of E3 2012, to be revealed on june 4th on DeadSpace.com.
Yes Gnome, a social mobile gaming company based in India, is releasing a new zombie game - Undead Frontier.
From their official press release:
Hyderabad, India - Undead Frontier - The game is fun, addictive and challenging because of it's unique strategy of having a social and a defense game interwined into one, where, how the players build their town affects how well it defends against zombies and the damaged incurred fighting zombies affects the social game economy. Additionally, the players can redesign their frontier town for optimum building placement to counter the zombies entering the town in the defense mode.
Simulation social game fans will enjoy building a town and making the economy flow of the last standing human town while interacting with the unique and eccentric characters that inhabit it. The players need to harvest crops, build and collect from businesses and houses as well as operate community buildings to keep their town thriving while making provisions to accomodate all the human survivors rushing to Undead Frontier to escape from the zombies.
The tower defense styled defense mode has cowboys coming out of the buildings and shooting the zombies down as they attack. The player can increase the number of cowboys, the resistance of buildings and repair them in real time if they get infected by zombies during a skirmish.
The game sports twin background scores that switch based on the mode the player is participating in with game mechanics that allow the player to add fighting cowboys, increase town resistance and repair damaged houses while fighting the zombies.
Pricing and Availability: Undead Frontier is free to play, but charges real money for additional in-app content.
Undead Frontier will be available for iOS and Android platform smartphones.
