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Warm Bodies heats up their pre-release marketing with a live chat today at 11:25am PT with Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer and Rob Corddry via a ClevverTV.com Google+ Hangout.
Warm Bodies, based on the book by Isaac Marion, will be released in theaters on February 1, 2013.
New this week from Entertainment One is War of the Dead, directed by Marko Makilaakso and starring Andrew Tiernan, Mikko Leppilampi and Samuel Vauramo.
"March 1941. Captain Martin Stone (Andrew Tiernan) leads an American unit on a mission to destroy a secret Nazi underground bunker. Fighting alongside an elite platoon, the soldier's find themselves attacked by the same men they killed in an earlier assault. Now, the remaining officers must struggle to survive against the war's most terrifying enemy... a flesh-hungry army of the living dead."
War of the Dead is available on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes.
Here's a first look at gameplay footage from The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct game coming from Activision and Terminal Reality.
You've got two and a half hours to take your shot at winning all seven seasond of Tales From The Crypt on DVD, a portable Sony DVD player and other Cryptkeeper prizes.
Enter FEARnet's New Year's Shockin' Eve Sweepstakes by 8pm ET tonight for your chance to win.
Celebrate New Year's Eve with a bang... and a bang, bang and more bangs as the zombies go down in AMC's marathon of The Walking Dead's third season tonight. Starting at 9pm ET, the marathon begins with "Seed", the shows third season premiere episode and raps up tomorrow morning with "Made To Suffer", the midseason finale.
You can see the full marathon schedule right here.
New in print this week from Permuted Press is Day By Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass by J.L. Bourne.
TOP SECRET
FROM: SECRETARY OF WAR
TO: PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED ST ATES
SUBJECT: VESSEL RECOVERED. FOUR IN CONTAINMENT. ONE ALIVE, EN ROUTE, WRIGHT FIELD
DECEPTION OPERATION UNDERWAY, DEBRIS STAGED,
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In a desperate bid to take back the continental United States—where hordes of undead now dominate the ravaged human population—a Navy commander leads a global mission to the heart of the pandemic. Task Force Hourglass is humanity’s final hope, and his team’s agonizing decisions could mean living one day more—or surrendering to the eternal hell that exists between life and death.
SHATTERED HOURGLASS
The terrifying new novel in the acclaimed zombie apocalypse series.
Day By Day Armageddon: Shattered Hourglass is available in paperback and Kindle, and Unabridged Audiobook editions now.
Here's your chance to see the first four minutes of Warm Bodies before it premieres in theaters.
Warm Bodies opens February 1, 2013.
"How did an engineer get caught in up in a battle with the Necromorph plague?"
Catch up on the story behind Dead Space now so you're prepared to survive its third installment:
Pre-order Dead Space 3 now for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
Here's what you get when you mashup The Walking Dead with the Australian Dumb Ways To Die PSA...
For those using Amazon to pre-order their copy of Dead Space 3, you're also getting an exclusive bonus weapon - the Tesla Enervator.
"Sovereign Colonies scientists developed the “Enervator" from an overdriven focus coil to "humanely" eliminate dangerous specimens. The Enervator delivers a precision blast causing instantaneous electrocution and molecular destabilization in the target. In test subjects, death was instantaneous."
Pre-order Dead Space 3 now for Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC.
New in print this week is The Creepers by Norman Dixon Jr., published via Amazon's CreateSpace platform.
"Bobby’s whole life has been about surviving in the aftermath of the First War. The Folks taught him about the Creepers. Ol’ Randy taught him how to kill them, how to hide from them, and how to protect himself from their bite. But Ol’ Randy never told Bobby the truth of his existence. After sneaking beyond the Settlement’s razor wire fence, both Bobby and his brother Ryan are bitten. Life as they know it should be over, they should be dead. They should be Creepers. But they're not, and before they can find out why, their world comes crashing down around them."
The Creepers is available in paperback and Kindle editions now.
A new... or is it the first... classic zombie Christmas classic song - celebrate the Xmas holiday of the living dead with 'Carol of the Bells'.
And if you really like it, support Not Literally Productions and buy it on iTunes: 
Video chat with Resident Evil: Retribution's Milla Jovovich tonight! Here's the link for the Oncam chat.
New tomorrow from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is Resident Evil: Retribution, directed by Paul W.S. Anderson and starring Milla Jovovich, Sienna Guillory and Michelle Rodriguez.
"Umbrella Corporation's deadly T-virus is spreading across the globe, transforming ordinary people into legions of undead. Headed for extinction, the human race has just one hope: Alice (Milla Jovovich). She's on a mission, fighting her way through cities and across continents, all inside Umbrella's prime research facility. Old friends become new enemies as she battles to escape and discovers that everything that she believes may not even be true."
Resident Evil: Retribution is available on Blu-ray 3D, Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes.
Even the zombie apocalypse can't stop Christmas for Rick and the gang in THE WALKING DEAD CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, not airing on AMC this December.
Here's your heads up for a zombie giveaway over on Ain't It Cool News. As part of their AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS contest series, they are offering readers the chance to win A CADAVER CHRISTMAS.
All you have to do is let them know how you've been naughty this year.
They've got five copies to give away and you could be one of the lucky winners... but act fast because the winners will be announced on Friday.
Full instructions and your link to the entry is available on AICN.
"In Dead Space 3, there's two ways to play. Go it alone as engineer Isaac Clarke, or team up with the dementia battling John Carver. See how the story changes as you play the two modes. Drop in, drop out online co-op makes it easy play your way."
New this week from Entertainment One is Osombie directed by John Lyde and starring Eve Mauro, Corey Sevier and Jasen Wade.
"Dusty is on a desperate mission to rescue her brother, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive. In Afghanistan, she falls in with a team of Special Forces soldiers on a secret assignment. When the group crashes headlong into a zombie apocalypse, Dusty and the troops realize they must find and destroy the root of this evil before it s too late."
Osombie is available now on Blu-ray, DVD and iTunes.
AMC is revisiting the idea of The Walking Dead in black and white after the successful use of the monochrome presentation of the pilot back in July. Word has surfaced on Twitter via a fan's message to showrunner Glen Mazzara of the upcoming airing of the first two seasons of The Walking Dead in good old black and white.
Twitter user @brayingdixon snapped the attached picture of a story in The Walking Dead Magazine and sent it to Robert Kirkman and Mazzara, who then re-tweeted it.
The black and white revisualization of the series will begin airing in February 2013.
Interestingly, the color to black and white de-colorization approach was originally done to great effect with director Frank Darabont's adaptation of Stephen King's The Mist and no doubt inspired the same treatment for his pilot for The Walking Dead.
Premiering tonight, the Science Channel introduces Surviving Zombies, their field guide for making it through the apocalypse.
"If you can survive the Zombie Apocalypse, you can survive anything!"
And we get two episodes tonight, the first at 10pm ET and the second at 10:30pm ET.
Here's a sneak peek: