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The Walking Dead Executive Producer and special effects guru Greg Nicotero takes a run through Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights haunted maze and bumps into a few familiar undead faces (and places).
New this week from BOOM! Studios - Fanboys vs. Zombies #6 - by writer Sam Humphries and artist Jerry Gaylord.
"The Wrecking Crew continues wrecking shop in the destroyed wasteland that was once San Diego! Struggling to survive, your favorite fanboys and fangirls ditch the escape plan and forge an attack against the never-ending zombie chaos. Will they divide and conquer, or will they face the same fate as their fallen fandom brothers and sisters?"
"Bubba's Chili Parlor, a restaurant in rural Texas, becomes ground zero for a worldwide zombie epidemic after Bubba unwittingly serves chili infected with a mutated strain of Mad Cow Disease."
Bubba's Chili Parlor is available on DVD and as an Amazon Instant Video download.
Spirit Halloween's Get Infected Sweepstakes has your chance to win the Grand Prize of a trip for two to the New York Comic Con and the Limited Edition Blu-ray set of The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season! Additional First Prize winners get the The Walking Dead: The Complete Second Season DVD set!
Enter the Spirit Halloween's Get Infected Sweepstakes now!
Mask & Cape, from Stan Lee's World of Heroes, takes on Resident Evil - the movies vs. the games:
The Syfy Channel's special effects make-up competition show Face Off takes on the living dead with Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson in tonight's episode, "Alice in Zombieland", at 9pm ET.
To celebrate the release of Resident Evil 6, IGN is giving you the chance to win one of twenty Limited Edition Resident Evil Xbox consoles (the only twenty in existence). Enter the IGN Resident Evil 6 Giveaway right here.
The Walking Dead creator and Executive Producer Robert Kirkman takes us behind the scenes of season three's prison set:
HeyUGuys.co.uk caught up with Brad Pitt in London and got in a quick question about the World War Z re-shoots:
From PopCap's official press release:
PopCap Launches iOS Update for Plants vs. Zombies
Additions Include 5 New Levels, Last Stand Endless Mode and 3 New Achievements
PopCap Games, a worldwide leader in mobile and social video games and a division of EA, today announced an update to Plants vs. Zombies™ for iOS that delivers 5 new game levels, Last Stand Endless mode and 3 new achievements. Existing players can download and play for free, as well as choose from a number of in-app purchase options that unlock special game packs and additional premium content.
With this new update, zombie fighters face a range of new challenges — battling through 5 new levels using a limited amount of sun in the new Last Stand Endless mode, a variant on classic Endless mode. Whacking zombies just got better, too, using powerful new mallets via the new Hammer Time, Still Standing and Stuff of Legends achievements.
Features At-a-Glance
Make Your Stand
The Last Stand Game Pack (100,000 coins for in-app purchase of €0.79) features 5 new levels, plus Last Stand Endless mode that provides an exciting new variant of the game’s classic Endless mode.
Achieve Greatness
Unlock 3 new achievements: Hammer Time, Still Standing and The Stuff of Legends, which bring the game’s total achievements to 48 for iPad and 47 for iPhone.
As Smart as a Bag of Hammers
Pick up a new Mallet Pack to help whack zombies in Survival and Last Stand Endless modes. Check out Crazy Dave’s Shop for more details.
Full Retina Display Support for iPad
Enjoy sharp, crisp graphics that enhance the playing experience for iPad.
PvZ Stuff
From the game menu link, check out the PvZ Store (http://www.pvzstore.com) for loads of great Plants vs. Zombies merchandise.
New on DVD this Tuesday from Pacific Entertainment - the Extreme Zombies 8 Movie Collection - all for just $12.99 from Amazon.
"This 8 film, 2 disk series is loaded with original Director cuts and are presented in their original form the way they were intended to be viewed - raw and over-the-top! Set Includes: Porn Star Zombies, Bled White, Office of the Dead, The Chosen One, Biker Zombies, Night of the Dead, Santa Claus vs. the Zombies and Bunker of Blood."
New on comic stands this week from Antarctic Press - Brian Keene's The Last Zombie: Before the After #1:
"Summer's still roasting us, but we've got a tale to give you the chills!
Ian Scott and the team of soldiers and scientists take shelter from an approaching blizzard, while the zombie virus in Ian's system makes slow but steady progress. How long can he hide his secret? Find out in The Last Zombie: Before the After #1, brought to you by Brian Keene and Fred Perry!
Available in one of two cool cover editions: "House Hunting" by Joe Wight and "Grass Ro(o)ts" by Mike Hawthorne!"
AMC's The Walking Dead is proving to be just as poular online as it is on television as its Facebook page hunted down its 10,000,000 fan. And to commemorate the moment, they celebrated with a not so subtle homage to The Social Network...
The Hollywood Reporter snagged an exclusive short clip of what awaits Rick Grimes and company in the preison in The Walking Dead's season 3 opener:
Season 3 of The Walking Dead premieres on October 14th.
Watch Play Dead, the new 18 minute short film by Andres and Diego Meza-Valdes that pits dogs vs. zombies in post-apocalyptic Miami:
AMC takes the fight against Dish into the political arena, launching a president campaign for A. Zombie whose platform is based on "equal viewing opportunities for all".
From the campaign's official press release:
The 2012 Presidential race is about to get more lively thanks to something quite dead – the news that A. Zombie, America’s first Zombie Presidential candidate, is entering the race.
A formidable third party contender for the nation’s highest office, A. Zombie is slated to announce his candidacy at a high-energy rally on Monday, August 20th at Westfield Horton Plaza in San Diego. The candidate and his human wife, Patty Morgan-Zombie, will then commence a cross-country bus tour that will take them to six major U.S. cities including Tampa and Charlotte, where they will bring their pro-zombie message to the Republican and Democratic Conventions.
You can follow A. Zombie on Twitter and his website AZombieForPresident.com.