iGT is back after a few days of leave. I do apologize to the 2-3 people that frequently visits our little operation for the lack of posts over the last few days. Apparently, injured knees results in not being able to use a computer. Who knew!? Oh well, Im going to take the time to make up some lost ground.
This week, iGT will feature two new catergories called “Impromptu” and “Customized”. Impromptu will be small tasty geek morsel of cool artwork and images without crazy amount of reading involved. Impromptu will be a great featurette for you to see more updated post goodness from us. Customized will be a feature of artist/craftsmen custom parody or original art and toys. You won’t find repaints only. We expect full blown overhauls of the original to produce something new and bitchin’. That being said, here we have something that satisfies both catergories!
To celebrate the upcoming “Brain Invaders” episode of The Clone Wars, Star Wars artist, Matt Busch put a delectable spin to the original Star Wars posters with a gruesome zombie twist. All 6 “episodes” of the saga got the zombie treatment. I especially love the undead Luke Skywalker in the New Hope parody. Great job Mr. Busch! Hit the jump to check out the rest of Matt Busch’s great poster art!
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Very cool! In case you have been living under a rock, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a unique fan-fiction style adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice by author, Seth Grahame-Smith. Within the iconic story of romance, Seth Grahame-Smith infused a heavy dosage of undead goodness with a sprinkle of ninja kung-fu action. The book features ultra-violent scenes of zombie destruction which are accompanied by humorous illustrations. P&P&Z has been so popular that there is a graphic novel adaptation in the works. On top of that great news, P&P&Z’s Twitter, @PrideandZombies has announced that Deadline Productions will be producing a six episode mini-series based on the book. My mouth is salivating from the undead bashin’ goodness. HURRAH!
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Our historical tour of Zombie History concludes with some great games and literature. Feel free to dive right in and test your survival skills or verse yourself in how to survive should the inevitable come.
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Today we continue our examination of Great Moments in Zombie History with your curator @Zombologist. right about now you might be asking yourself what qualifies Zombologist for that title? How does one get a PHD in Zombology?
In college, I majored in Micro-Biology and Anthropology. On one of my excursions into the heart of the South American rainforests, I discovered an indigenous group of people who swore to me they were experiencing a series of attacks from seemingly reanimated individuals. When I went out into the woods to track them, I found myself surrounded. From reading books and watching movies, I had a fairly good sense of the way a zombie acts and smells. The next three years held some of the most unpleasent yet informative moments of my life. Living amongst them, acclimating to their habits and learning to hunt with them as a horde changed my life.
So if you still don’t believe I’m qualified to mark these momentous occasions of Undead History, I challenge you to go live three years amongst the Zeds and see what you write about.
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You can barely hear Ellis shouting at you over all the screaming. It’s echoing all over the room, spaced out with bursts of gunfire or the bass boom of the shotguns. How did it come to this? Coach is off grabbing pills, always complaining about that bum knee of his, and you can’t help feeling bad for taking a crack at Rochelle after she saved your ass from that jockey.
This could be any one of several scenarios you step into when you fire up Left 4 Dead 2. While most people were complaining that Left 4 Dead 2 was going to be more like an addon to the first installment, I worried about whether or not I would like these characters. So much of that game is stepping into the shoes of the people I control (that is, after all, a common theme in Valve games). So it’s refreshing that these characters are likeable, believable and quotable at times.
One of the things I admire most is the way the dialogue changes depending on the situation. Frantic screaming might accompany a huge flood of zombies breaking through a doorway, for instance. Wisecracks add color to the world through the culture of the characters. All of this adds up to you caring about the people you are playing through the eyes of.
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