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Top 5 Zombie Games

There's no shortage for internet opinions about video games with zombies in them. Almost every major video-game blog, or zombie blog (Webster's: a blog written by zombies), has one or another version of the "Best Zombie Games of ALL TIME". So when I and my illustrious co-author Mark write this top five, we are under no illusions that we are at all the first to do so.

But we are clearly the best.

So what makes a good, or the best, zombie game? What is it that gamers want to see in a, for example, ramshackle, deserted western town, or perhaps a ramshackle, deserted mini-mall? The key component, if it needs to even be said, is the zombies. They way they act, walk, run, attack, eat flesh, and especially die. Which brings up another key component: how does the player kill the zombies, assum...

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Top 5 Reasons to Play Videogames

Hey all. Welcome to the Top 5 Takedown, where I'll be taking down my top five whatever in videogames every week. I'll be ranking games, characters, developers, pirates, annoying pocket-sized monsters, hardcore pocket-sized monsters, and everything in between. With that exhaustive list to go off of, I will be starting out this midnight train with my TOP FIVE REASONS TO PLAY VIDEO GAMES.

Ok, so this may seem like a basic idea, especially to someone reading a column on a gaming website. But I think it's worthwhile to take time to remember why it is that you did spend $600 on a PS3 right when it came out, or why you waited outside in the rain at 11:59pm just so you wouldn't have to wait another valuable gaming second to play World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King (I know that I will be a...

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