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2Bits: Zombies, the undead menace

Let me tell you a little thing about zombies. They’re evil, undead, unstoppable and they really like brains. If there’s anything videogames have taught us over the years, it’s that zombies are not your friends, and any sane person will have a zombie apocalypse survival plan handy in the event that the dead walk the earth.

The most obvious place to gather incriminating evidence is the Resident Evil series, built around the foundation that zombies are the product of evil, corporate-greed induced scientific irresponsibility (the T-virus, manufactured by the Umbrella corporation). But zombies have been an (evil!) part of the videogame landscape long before RE landed in the US, bad dialogue intact, in 1996. The Castlevania and Doom series each had their share of zombie enemies through the years, Beast Buster was a 1989 arcade game set in a city overrun with the undead, the entire House of the Dead series (which hit the scene around the same time as Resident Evil) has always been about…

Activision leaks more Spidey info

Activision has released more details about their upcoming Spider-Man brawler, called Spider-Man: Friend or Foe, to be released Fall 2007 for all platforms.t

Players will once again assume the role of Spider-Man as he is called into action to overcome a worldwide threat, although the details of the game’s storyline are still under wraps. What we do know is that the game is drawing inspiration from not only the Spider-Man movie trilogy but also from Spidey’s comic book roots. This certainly allows for a wealth of possibilities in terms of storyline branches and overall game content.

Unlike previous Spider-Man games, Spidey won’t be fighting solo. In Friend or Foe, players will be able to …