In Real Life

What Ever Happened To The Christmas Video Game?

Christmas. It’s not only a holiday, but a mood, a memory. Movies ranging from It’s A Wonderful Life to Home Alone capture that festive feeling. Video games, do not.


October 29, 2010

Review: Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare

Rockstar Games’ Old West tour de force Red Dead Redemption catches zombie fever – as video games now tend to do – with the Undead Nightmare add-on, which is a meaty, mystical expansion to the comparatively sober original adventure.


In Real Life

The Horror Of The Wild West

Before Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare launched, Rockstar’s Dan Houser compared the zombie add-on to a ’70s horror flick. With Halloween right around the corner, get out the popcorn, because here is a field guide to some crazy westerns.


October 26, 2010

Undead Nightmare’s Brain-Eating, Sasquatch-Running Video Poetry

Cowboys? Zombies? Hell yeah!


October 24, 2010
News

‘Land Grab’: Undead Nightmare’s Non-Horror Mode

Not everything included with Red Dead Redemption’s Undead Nightmare, due Tuesday, involves reanimated corpses. You’ll also get “land grab”, a multiplayer mode that’s a variant of king-of-the-hill, played on wider turf.


October 23, 2010
In Real Life

Red Dead Redemption: Messin’ With Sasquatch?

Posted today on Rockstar’s official blog, under the headline “WTF?” Will we be seeing Bigfoot in Undead Nightmare? Thanks to tipster Walter P.


October 22, 2010

For The First Time, Rockstar Previews A Game With A Rhyme

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We knew Rockstar Games was going to include a cooperative multiplayer gamers vs zombies horde mode in the October 26 Red Dead Redemption expansion Undead Nightmare. Who knew they were going to make a poem about it? See/hear it here.


October 19, 2010

Red Dead’s Zombies Are Like A 70′s Horror Movie

The dead walk the earth in the the zombie add-on for Red Dead Redemption, Undead Nightmare. While zombies are tres passe, Rockstar thinks it can put an original spin on them. Here’s why:


October 15, 2010

The Sights And Shocks Of Undead Nightmare

Zombie bears. Desperate people who need rescuing. The great weapon of Holy Water. A flaming horse called War. A plague of violent weirdness is coming to Rockstar’s hit western Red Dead Redemption. The forthcoming Undead Nightmare is infested with it.