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GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Zombies and video games are an eternal pairing, a powerhouse combo of gory storytelling and terrifying possibility that can be used to tell unforgettable stories within the medium. Of course, not every zombie game is a guaranteed hit and there have been more t...[Read More]

Previously known as Project ParadiZe, developer Eko Software has renamed their co-op open-world survival game to Welcome to ParadiZe, and announced a February 29, 2024 release on PC via Steam, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series. Alongside the revamped name and release date, Eko and publisher Nacon have released a “Comeb’hack Trailer” showing off gameplay for Welcome to ParadiZe. Touting a new genre of ...[Read More]

Before he was shut down by Rockstar North, former developer, Obbe Vermeij, revealed that Rockstar was once working on a zombie survival game set on a remote Scottish island. In a now-removed blog post, Vermeij spoke at length about the plan to produce a zombie game using Vice City’s code, which was a concept that reportedly circulated around Rockstar North for around a month back in 2002. U...[Read More]

If you thought the zombie survival trope was dead and buried, think again, because an awesome new upcoming game blends together Fallout with Dead Island to give us the zombie outbreak we’ve all been secretly preparing for.As someone who anticipates that their death would come swiftly during a zombie apocalypse, I tend to stay away from games like this one. However, even I have to admit that Steam’...[Read More]

The Day Before kicked off 2023 as one of the most wishlisted games on Steam. Now, after endless controversies, the self-proclaimed open-world survival-horror MMO styled after The Last of Us is finally in Steam Early Access, and it’s getting panned. The first players to lay hands on the much-hyped zombie shooter are sharing footage of game-breaking glitches and leaving thousands of negative reviews...[Read More]

The Day Before, the open-world MMO zombie game that’s been at the top of Steam’s wishlist charts since developer Fntastic dropped a splashy reveal trailer two years ago, is finally out. But players of The Day Before say the game that launched in early access Thursday isn’t the game they were promised, and are flooding Steam with thousands of negative reviews. Some of those negative reviews are sla...[Read More]

I was there. Long before The Day Before,  I was there. I was there when the H1Z1 virus hit, and it wasn't good. I was there when so many were lost to The Walking Dead: Survival Instincts. I gave Metal Gear Survive a chance, even after all of my friends said I shouldn’t. I survived them all in one way or another, and I never lost hope. But none of them could prepare me for The Day Before, which bef...[Read More]

Last Thursday, the studio behind “post-apocalyptic open-world MMO survival” game The Day Before launched the game that had become Steam’s most-wishlisted title based on a splashy reveal trailer. On Monday, the studio said it was shutting down and that no more updates will be released for The Day Before. Developer Fntastic announced its closure on X in a statement that read, “The Day Before has fai...[Read More]

The Day Before was one of the most-wishlisted games on Steam before it came out in early access last week. Players flooded into the servers—over 38,000 were playing concurrently at its peak—but very quickly began flowing out, either because they were unable to connect to the servers, which featured no login queues, struggled with crashes and bugs, or just weren't having fun in the open-world survi...[Read More]