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Daily iPhone App: Zombies, Run! 5k helps novices train for a 5K

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 2nd, 2013)

In June, there is a local 5K race and I want to run in it. It's been years since I've done any serious running so I definitely have to prepare for this event. Like any good techie, I turned to my iPhone and the App Store for motivation. After searching, I stumbled on a new version of an old ...

Zombies, Run! kicks off season 2

by Mike Schramm (Apr 16th, 2013)

Zombies, Run! is one of the most creative running apps that you'll find on the App Store, hands down. It does what many other running apps do, like track your time and distance. But it's also a game. By combining sound effects, narratives, characters and GPS tracking, the app lets you "play" ...

Daily iPhone App: Zombies and Trains combine for gory fun

by Mike Schramm (Feb 7th, 2013)

Zombies and Trains is the latest app from Dragonhead Games, an indie dev based in Norway. It's a zombie app (which is fairly meh these days), but it features a pretty inventive control scheme and a whole lot of content to play through. The app is essentially an arena game, where you're ...

Daily iPhone App: Ultimate Battle Zombies is a freemium zombie throwdown

by Mike Schramm (Mar 12th, 2012)

I unfortunately made the mistake of overbooking myself for interviews last week at GDC, so I didn't get to see developer Brian Robbins' panel on how to put together money for making iPhone games. But I did get to meet up with him later in the week, and he showed me what's going on with his ...

Daily iPhone App: Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies

by Mike Schramm (Dec 15th, 2011)

EA has been on the App Store for a long time. Say what you want about subscription minigames and in-app purchases, but recent release of Tetris and Bejeweled demonstrate that EA has a good play. Activision, on the other hand, still doesn't quite get the App Store, and the result is games like ...

Daily iPhone App: Extraction Project Outbreak

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2011)

Extraction: Project Outbreak is a recent title from Chillingo that's an interesting mix of shooter and what's essentially real-time strategy. You control one soldier as you fight through a series of missions, and the control scheme is pretty interesting. You touch on the screen to move around ...

TUAW's Daily App: Van Pershing

by Mike Schramm (Apr 5th, 2011)

As the App Store has matured, so have the apps on it -- many iOS games today are complicated, deep affairs that require strategy and finesse. But sometimes you just want to kill zombies, and that's what Van Pershing is all about. The title is a straight-up side-scrolling shooter. All you have ...

Valve releases the original Left 4 Dead just in time for Halloween

by Michael Grothaus (Oct 28th, 2010)

I just got done playing a level of Left 4 Dead 2 on my MacBook Pro when I saw this: Valve has released the original Left 4 Dead for Mac OS X. Valve originally released the sequel, Left 4 Dead 2, for the Mac on October 5th, promising the first one would come in time for Halloween. The reason for ...

App Review: Eat brains or get shotgunned in Zombie Dice

by Sebastian Blanco (Aug 29th, 2010)

Zombie Dice is one of a new breed of board games that was released almost simultaneously in real life and in digital form as an app for the iPhone/iPod touch. It wasn't supposed to be that way, but the popularity of the free Flash demo that Steve Jackson Games developed for its website made ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: Where's my Michael Jackson Zombie?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 27th, 2010)

Dear Aunt TUAW, PopCap Games recently released an update to Plants vs. Zombies boasting "multiple performance enhances and bug fixes" (sure, but I never had an issue on my 3GS). Now, the King of Pop Zombie is nowhere to be found! He's replaced with a zombie with an orange Afro, white 70s ...

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies for iPhone: Fun, but faulty

by Chris Rawson (Jun 5th, 2010)

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a franchise in possession of a large fanbase must be in want of a video game adaptation. However hasty or flawed the execution of said game may be, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of media conglomerates that a video game is considered the rightful ...

GDC 2010: Call of Duty: World at War Zombies postmortem

by Mike Schramm (Mar 10th, 2010)

Russell Clarke of Ideaworks Game Studio hosted a post-mortem report near the end of the first day of GDC 2010 about Call of Duty: World at War Zombies for the iPhone. The game was one of the first big brand hits on the App Store -- it successfully brought a game mode from one of Activision's Call ...

Gameloft says they've got iPhone locked down

by Mike Schramm (Feb 20th, 2010)

Gameloft is one of the bigger iPhone-specific (or at least mobile-specific) game developers out there, and in fact they're so big, they tell Mobile Entertainment that they're not scared of their development partner Ubisoft and other big game developers headed to the iPhone. Ubisoft developed the ...

Call of Duty: World at War Zombies, Rock Band get free versions

by Mike Schramm (Jan 27th, 2010)

Two of the App Store's biggest hits last year have finally dropped free versions of their apps to try out. Of course, odds are probably slim that you haven't played or heard of these two yet, but just in case you were waiting to try them without paying, now is your chance. First up, Call of ...

Family-friendly Zombies on the iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Nov 18th, 2009)

We have a lot of apps coming through our tipline, but this one caught my eye, not only because it is called Zombies (the stumbling undead always catch my eye), but because it offers up a bit of good old-fashioned fun in the form of a Daleks!-style remake. Gameplay is simple and straighforward -- ...