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A History of Zombies in Video Games

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October 2, 2010
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A History of Zombies in Video Games Here is a look back at notable video games featuring the undead over the past 25 years, including absolute train wrecks like Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green and ground-breaking horror games like Resident Evil.
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iPad Sales to Hurt PC Makers in 2011 Although sales of Apple's iPad haven't panicked PC makers yet, trends by tablet owners may give laptop manufacturers some sleepless nights next year.
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Apple iMac May Add Touchscreen, But Beware the Gorilla Arm! A touch-enabled iMac could change the desktop computer as we know it.
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Five Arrested in Scam Involving Theft via Botnet Operation Trident Breach is part of an ongoing effort to take down a criminal empire that stole $70 million from victims' bank accounts over several years.
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Verizon Wireless Urges Phone Recycling The wireless device trade-in program gives users an easy way to recycle old gear and get credit toward a replacement gadget.
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E-Mail Service Nags, at Your Instruction Analysis: By addressing this third-party as a cc: to a Gmail message, you arrange for a reminder to follow up.
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Blizzard Bans StarCraft 2 Players More than 5000 players are banished from Battle.net for violating usage terms by cheating or hacking.
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Microsoft Sues Motorola Over Android Phones UPDATE: Motorola denies Microsoft's patent claim regarding its Android phones.
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China's iPhone 4 Shortage Keeps Grey Market Lively Apple hoped the legal sale would soften the grey market, but no such luck yet.
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Is Facebook Movie Facebook's Folly? Hollywood's portrayal of Facebook founder Zuckerberg as "villain" could affect the firm . . . or not.
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Encryption Won't Protect Your BlackBerry Now A pair of Russian software developers have teamed on a password-cracking program for the BlackBerry.
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Great, Now Microsoft is Suing Motorola Microsoft has announced that it's suing Motorola for making Android phones that violate Microsoft patents
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Taliban Scrubbed From Medal of Honor Multiplayer Analysis: The cops and robbers gunplay in Medal of Honor's multiplayer mode will no longer include the Taliban.
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Are There Enough Spaces Users to Care When it Closes? Analysis: Fast and loose figures are causing some confusion over the number of users affected by Microsoft's decision to shutter Spaces.
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NPD: iPad Satisfaction Drops Among Later Adopters Of the people who bought iPads within the first two months of launch, almost 80 percent said they were very satisfied.
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4 Ways Google's Goo.gl URL Shortening Service Can Best the Competition As Google joins the Internet address shortening fray with Goo.gl, can it differentiate itself from the competition?
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Viral Views: Shall We Play a Game? Ready to waste some time? Here's a collection of our favorite viral online games.
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Android's Openness Doesn't Mean It's Less Secure Recent 'TaintDroid' findings that Android apps shared user location data are a testament to the power of open source--not evidence of its failings.
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Google Phone Gallery: Marketing Ploy? Google's new gallery of phones running its Android operating system leaves off handsets that use other search engines.
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A Robotic Exoskeleton, Electric Cars, the PlayBook, and More RIM unveils the BlackBerry PlayBook, the iPhone 4 launches in China, electric cars are in Paris, and Raytheon revamps its Exoskeleton robotic suit.
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A History of Zombies in Video Games Here is a look back at notable video games featuring the undead over the past 25 years, including absolute train wrecks like Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green and ground-breaking horror games like Resident Evil.
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PCWorld Reviewers' Favorite Files: September 2010September is a time for change, even when it comes to software. PCWorld reviewers reveled in an Android-friendly update to a venerable media player and a network manager with a new free version. They even found new ways to lay out photo pages, organize e-book libraries, and set up virtual machines. Couldn't your PC stand a little freshening up?
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