The Dark Furie

These two classic gothic horror books can be downloaded for free (support depends on your country) to your phones and read at your leisure. If you've never read them before then they're definitely worth a read, although my tip is to start with Frankenstein. Shelley's work stands up so much better these days than Stoker's Dracula does. But wait, that's not all...

Today's Game

New York, 2011 A.D.

The city is besieged by a wave of terrorist attacks. With conventional police overwhelmed, several private forces have been created to counter the threat.

The best funded and most effective are the Freedom Fighters.

Other forces, integrated with live TV crews have become extremely popular.

So begins Zombie Infection, the first true survival horror built exclusively for mobiles.

When I first came up with the idea for my mailing list (before I started giving these things away here) I mentioned that most mobile games just plain don't work because action games don't translate well into mobile games. Zombie Infection is the exception to that rule - fast and frantic action, creepy creatures that take strategy and item conservation to beat, puzzles to solve, boss creatures to fight, side-quests to complete. This is a complete survival horror experience that you'll play over and over, if only to unlock the hidden bonus games, find that last file or play a favourite mission again.

There's not much I can say about Zombie Infection that isn't covered in Pocket Gamer's review where they gave the game 10/10 and compared it to George Romero's films. Read that and download the game or, well... or I'll eat your brains.

And one final treat for all those who've already tried out Zombie Infection and read those book - Resident Evil: Genesis. This little horror game contains puzzles and zombies galore. It's a bit more hardcore than Zombie Infection but can provide some entertainment on a cold and lonely night, as the wind howls across the moors.

Mobile streaming version is here, and the downloadable version is here.

As you can see from the image, Activision have done quite a good job capturing Kurt's image and have apparently motion captured him from various videos. Guitar Hero 5 features quite a few music stars, some still living and some deceased, all of which can be unlocked then used as the main singer in any of the songs. Of course, if the song they're singing isn't one of their own it will still be the original singer's voice that players hear. And that's where Love and legions of Nirvana fans (the majority of them people who discovered the band in the aftermath of Kurt's suicide) have a problem. Kurt put a lot of emotion into his music, and they say that it's a travesty and misuse of his image to allow him to be the singer of other people's songs.

You know what? I was a Nirvana fan many many years ago, before they really hit the big time. I'm not one of these children you see in their fresh Nirvana hoodies, trying to make their choice of music interesting, I was here from the beginning and my view on this is simple - if Courtney Love is so worried about inappropriate use of Kurt Cobain then she shouldn't sign his image up to be used in that game. The game has always been clear about how the images of these stars will be used, and all other stars in the game get the exact same treatment. In fact, despite his amazing talent it'd dishonour his memory more to expect special treatment for him that others don't get. And why blame the game when the person who exploited him when he was alive is clearly doing the same even now?