And now, a quick op ed piece from Chris: friend, old school World of Warcraft participant, zombie critic, and apparent fan of lower case titling:
the zombie apocalypse is making progress on all fronts
It has come to my attention that zombies are making inroads into World War One and Two across different media:
1. Video games:
https://www.cultofmac.com/94407/save-world-war-i-from-zombies-and-cthulhu-with-the-wasted-land-on-ios/
Pretty much everything goes in video games and this is better than any GTA version in terms of social message. This might be cool.
2. Board Games:
https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/246960/axis-allies-zombies
I remember playing the original version in high school so this is a bit of sacrilege. Granted Axis and Allies was a broad brush stroke game with dice being the main driver rather than strategy but still...
3. Movies:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlord_(2018_film)
I think this is especially poor taste for this zombie version of D-Day coming out so close to Remembrance Day. Imagine some poor nonagenarian going to see this not really reading the fine print...*
Something must be done about this zombie plague!
In other news, Blizzard™ killed Diablo by stopping development on the PC and only continuing it on smart phones. The auditorium at Blizzcon was underwhelmed to say the least....
- Chris
* This is quite a valid point, you'd never know if you just went by the title - Operation Overlord was the Allied code name for the plan to retake France during World War II.
- Sid
Thank you for putting this up as a blog post! It was unexpected to say the least!
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