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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]

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]

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]

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 best zombie games will boil your guts and make you squirm; however, some are worse than others. Much like an oncoming horde of the undead, the sheer amount of zombie games available to purchase and play can easily overwhelm even the most repaired survivor. Unfortunately, not every zombie game is made equal. While most titles will do justice in the gore and guts departments, a few rise above th...[Read More]

You might not have heard of it, but Project Zomboid is quietly the best zombie game out there, a hugely-detailed simulation that puts you in the midst of the apocalypse and tasks you with working out how you're going to survive in a crumbling world. So when I spotted Dread Dawn slipping into Steam Next Fest's top ten, I had to take a closer look.This particular zombie apocalypse kicks off during p...[Read More]

What are the best zombie games on PC? You can hardly take a step on Steam without these clutching at your ankle, so it’s a valid question. Popular culture’s fascination with the undead has given us many gifts – and many memes – so you must get your bearings and know where to find the best zombie games out there on PC. Luckily, our list of dead-good hits has everything a zombie enthusiast could ...[Read More]

Wouldn’t it be cool if a developer had another crack at a new video game adaptation of John Carpenter’s The Thing, but instead of a Survival Horror title, it was instead a social deduction game? While NewGen Studio and developer Wandering Wizard’s Zombie Within obviously isn’t The Thing, it does give a glimpse into what sort of fun you could have. Set for release into Early Access on Steam on Febr...[Read More]

Kingdom: The Blood (Image: PR/YJM Games/Action Games) The official release date for the zombie-killing video game Kingdom: The Blood has finally been announced. Based on the Netflix live-action series, Kingdom: The Blood will be available come March 5, 2024. As someone who has been keeping an eye on Kingdom: The Blood, I’m excited to learn that I will be able to play the horror-action video game ...[Read More]

Who wants to play a free zombie shooter that is suspiciously receiving an odd amount of rave reviews, somehow? If so, then we might just have the game for you.Now and again, an unexpected indie darling comes along and not only shakes the foundations of the video game industry in an instant but also changes our lives giving us more reason to exist every day. One such game is the critically acclaime...[Read More]

South Korean sales outfit K-Movie Entertainment has boarded upcoming Thai action horror Operation Undead and is introducing the title to buyers at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin. It marks the first non-Korean title to be handled by Seoul-based K-Movie Entertainment. The film, now in production, is set in 1941 and centres on a unit of Thai soldiers who are pitted against invading Japanese...[Read More]

“It’s all true. Well, true myth, anyway,” says Thordur Palsson about The Damned, his Nordic horror film set in a 19th century Icelandic village besieged by zombies. Odessa Young (HBO’s The Staircase) stars as Eva, a widow running an isolated fishing post in Iceland’s West Fjords in the 19th century. When a ship sinks just off the coast, Eva and her crew, snowed in and starving, have to choose...[Read More]