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AMC releases Official The Walking Dead Series Trailer

Back in July, a handheld cam version of The Walking Dead TV series trailer, aired at San Diego Comic Con, made its way online.  While better than many handhelds, it doesn’t matter now, as AMC has put out the full trailer, above.  Well worth the watch!
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Left 4 Dead’s Sacrifice not written in stone

When Valve released “The Passing” DLC for Left 4 Dead 2, it was the first time that we got to see the cast of the original L4D in the new game.  We also saw the ultimate fate of one of the original characters, but I won’t spoil it for those who haven’t seen it yet. The [...]
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Dead Rising 2 screens raise many questions…

Out of GamesCon running in Cologne Germany, comes some pretty, uhm, interesting screenshots for Capcom’s Dead Rising 2. As you can see from the above pic, there appears to be what every zombie game needs… giant angry teddy bear vs wheelchair dude multiplayer racing action. In fact, many of the screenshots (below) are [...]
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Toronto Zombie Walk 2010

2010 marks an impressive 8 years that the Toronto Zombie Walk has been up and running (or shambling).   Although there’s still over two months to go until the undead take to the streets of Toronto again, there’s been a change that people should take note of.  This marks the first year that they have [...]
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Walking Dead blog: Robert Kirkman and Greg Nicotero interviews

It’s pretty obvious why AMC is going all out on the official Walking Dead blog.  It’s mainly publicity, and a dash of assauging the fear of some fans that an adaptation of the comic into TV format might water down the gruesome contents.  On the latter, I think there’s little to fear now, as they’ve [...]
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Walking Dead: Zombie School

The folks over at AMC are certainly doing a good job of using the Walking Dead series blog as a production diary.  Besides some of the make up work that they released images of, they’re including more and more behind the scenes featurettes and shorts.  The latest is “Zombie School“, where the zombie extras are [...]
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The Walking Dead enters production

It’s no secret that The Walking Dead is one of our favourite ongoing comics here at rgb HQ, so when it was announced a TV series based on it was in the pipeline, we couldn’t be happier.  A TV series based on the book could be potentially awesome, if handled properly, and eveything seems to [...]
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Does Francis hate Rochelle’s shirt? Left 4 Dead 2’s DLC ‘The Passing’ out now!

The new chapter for Left 4 Dead 2, The Passing, is being released today on the 360 and PC. Finally the cast of Left 4 Dead 1 and 2 get to meet, and in the trailer above Francis and Rochelle get their hate on together. The chapter also introduces the weekly Mutations events, as detailed [...]
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Very Cool: Class 3 Outbreak Flash Zombie RTS!

Built on their first release, the Zombie Outbreak Simulator, Binary Space has release their first game, the Zombie RTS Class 3 Outbreak. The game is a browser based flash game, running over Google maps, where you control 3 squads of police to try to hold back a zombie invasion. Like many flash games the graphics [...]
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AMC greenlights ‘The Walking Dead’ TV series

Following on from the news in January that AMC had ordered the pilot for a TV series of the best genre comic ever, ‘The Walking Dead’, comes the annoncement that a six episode series has been greenlit by AMC. The project has been on a fast track after AMC won a bidding war last August [...]
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AMC TV greenlights ‘The Walking Dead’ Pilot

Last year it was announced that Robert Kirkman’s Image comic‘The Walking Dead’ had been optioned by AMC to be turned into a TV Series. This was great news for many. As an ongoing series on the cable network, it won’t be bound by the same FCC constrictions as the broadcast networks. This should [...]
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Toronto Zombie Walk 2009 – Update of the damned

Last years Toronto Zombie Walk was attended by over 3000 shambling corpses.  With only 3 weeks to go until the sidewalks of Toronto become splattered with the blood of the undead once again, it’s time to dish all the details, straight from the official site…
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