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Zombie Week: The undead are coming!

Macworld’s Game Room kicks off a week of zombie games for the iPhone

Greetings, Game Room readers. This week we’re doing something a little different with Macworld’s Game Room. Due to the popularity of zombie applications on the iPhone and iPod touch, we’ve decided to dedicate an entire week to the undead. For months, we’ve been beating back the hordes brain-eating zombie games with our trusty shovel and sawed off shotgun. But like a George Romero film, the masses have finally broken through our barriers. Now it’s brain-eating time.

This week, you’ll get a hefty helping of games with moaning undead hordes lurching right for your throat. Every day we’ll post an iPhone game review with a zombie theme, including some very high-end titles from Capcom, PopCap, and Activision.

You’ll also want to keep checking the Games Room section for a special interview with Plants vs. Zombies creator George Fan, as well as Macworld’s zombie app survival guide, and other surprise guests and interviews. Like any good zombie film, we have some surprises in store for you.

Keep your brains intact and your shotgun ready. The zombies are coming. Here are the zombie articles for the week.

Zombie Week: The undead are coming!

Macworld's Game Room kicks off a week of zombie games for the iPhone

Dawn of the Dead for iPhone
Zach Snyders' 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead had its fans and its critics. New developer Byte Mark won't have the benefit of such a controversy: Dawn of the Dead for the iPhone—as the developers’ name suggests—bites.
Call of Duty: Zombies for iPhone
If there was ever an enemy you’d feel guiltless about killing, it’s Nazi zombies. And for the wince-inducing base price of $9.99, Activision’s Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies lets you blow them to pieces to your heart’s content.
ZombieSmash coming to iPhone
ZombieSmash, developed by Game Doctors, lets you dispatch the zombie hordes with unrivaled variety and power. Due out later in March and priced at $2, this funny and quirky zombie app looks like a title to watch.
The Raging Dead for iPhone
In The Raging Dead, you’re given an aerial view of a section of a city and the task of eradicating the zombies before they spread. The challenge of the game is inherit in what makes a zombie plague such a terrifying concept—their victims turn into more zombies.
Six essential iPhone apps for a zombie attack
What are you going to do if the world is suddenly overrun with zombies? Your trusty iPhone can help you--there are tons of apps that could save your life in the event of a zombie attack.
Resident Evil 4 Mobile Edition and Resident Evil 4 for Beginners
Resident Evil 4 Mobile Edition embodies a lot of the original Resident Evil spirit in its debut for the iPhone and iPod Touch. While the controls handicap an otherwise smooth transition to the new platform, fans of the series and those seeking a brutally difficult challenge should still give this title a look.
Plants vs. Zombies for iPhone
Finally combining my love of gardening and my need to slaughter the undead, Plants vs. Zombies is a unique tower defense game from PopCap Games
Insight on the iPhone's zombie invasion
We launched Zombie Week because of the abundance of zombie applications in the App Store; now, we hope to unearth some reasons why the living dead have invaded the iPhone and iPod touch.