Treyarch, makers of the soon-to-be-released Call of Duty: Black Ops first person shooter game, has confirmed that there will be zombies to be fought when COD7 hits the stands in November 2010.
Call of Duty: Black Ops is the seventh installment in the hugely popular series and is set during the Cold-War era. This time, however, a heavy emphasis will be put on storyline and Cold-War era military coverops.
According to Conceptnews.com, the zombies were "originally packaged as content in Call of Duty: World at War" but that the "zombie mode in the game was so popular amongst players that 'Call of Duty: World at War: Zombies' was developed for the iPhone. In this game play mode, players fought off an endless onslaught of Nazi zombie intruders while simultaneously trying to repair windows to the safe house that kept the undead out."
We're all left wondering how different the new game will be from the old content? According to Mark Lamia at Treyarch, “Zombies have been such a hit with our community that we were committed to bringing brand new zombie experiences to Call of Duty: Black Ops…”
We can’t wait to find out...and kill the zombies. You may be asking, "Why is this bad news?" The only answer we can find is that we'll all run the risk of becomming gamer zombies ourselves once the game is out.
Click below to see the Black Ops official trailer:
Published on October 1, 2010 at 2:16 pm
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Associated Press - May 4, 2010 3:15 PM ET
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire police say a mummified body of a baby that was kept by a family for years before a judge ordered the remains to be buried has been removed from a cemetery.
Concord police said Tuesday the corpse of "Baby John," which had been buried at an unmarked grave at a Concord cemetery in 2008, has not been recovered. They say a visitor to the cemetery on Monday reported that a grave appeared to have been unearthed.
A lawyer for Charles Peavey, who last kept the mummified body, considered a family heirloom, says police searched Peavey's house on Monday. He says Peavey denies disturbing the gravesite.
Disturbance of a burial site and abuse of a corpse are felonies.
Published on May 5, 2010 at 10:04 am
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It was said that Wang Chaoxu, of Qixian village in Yunnan, southwest China, believed an old wives' tale that eating a child's brain could cure fits.
Police said the boy, Li Xuetang, was found buried nearly 5km away in a grain field in a neighbouring village, The Sun reports.
The top of his head was peeled back and part of his brain removed, The Sun reported.
Heartbroken mum Yu Chaohu became anxious when her son disappeared late at night.
She said: "It was getting dark, but I couldn't find my son anywhere in the village.
"I even asked the village head to broadcast on the radio to ask my son to come back home for dinner."
A few hours later Li was found, after a villager Zhang Huansheng saw a man kneeling over him, and holding him by the neck.
The boy's mum was desperate to see her son but was told the body was too badly damaged.
Yu added, "I can't bear to think about what happened to him. I have nightmares thinking about it."
Wang Wenzhong, the village leader, found two blood stained rocks in the field and some fractured bones, before the boy's body was discovered buried nearby.
Wang Chaoxu was arrested and told police he believed eating the brain with earthworms and ants would cure his illness.
Wang said he was married to a nurse, but she left him because his illness meant he was unable to work.
It was claimed a three-year-old girl, who was reported missing on the same day, may also be one of his victims.
The girl was found dead in public toilets with a knife cut to her head. Police are investigating whether the cases are linked.
Published on March 30, 2010 at 10:42 am
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9:57pm UK, Thursday January 07, 2010
James Jordan, Sky News Online
A grieving family in America is suing an undertakers after their grandmother's brain was sent to them in a bag of personal belongings following the woman's death.
The grandmother was killed in a car accident
The discovery was made after family members noticed a "foul odour" coming from a bag sent to them by the DeVargas Funeral Home and Crematory in Espanola Valley, New Mexico, reported the Albuquerque Journal.
The bag had been left inside a family member's truck overnight and when family members opened it they found personal effects and a bag labelled with her name reading "brain", the lawsuit alleged.
Albuquerque laywer Richard Valle said: "No loved one's brain should ever be part of those belongings."
The brain has since been buried with the woman's body.
Funeral home owner Johnny DeVargas insisted his business was not to blame, pointing the finger at another funeral home in the neighbouring state of Utah.
He told the paper: "All I can say is DeVargas did absolutely nothing wrong and that the family was well cared for.
"The family was very meticulously cared for and they were very pleased with our service."
The woman, who was identified only by her initials in the lawsuit, was killed in a car accident in Utah in September.
Published on January 9, 2010 at 6:13 pm
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If you've ever wondered what variables would affect your town during a massive brain-hungry undead attack, look no further. The Class 3 Outbreak uses Google Maps to simulate the spread of the undead virus. Just wait for it to load, add your town's population numbers, pick how many citizens are armed, how many police, and how good of a shot everyone is. Then, sit back and watch the magic unfold. It's free, and it just might save your life. Or it could show you that you don't have a chance.
Published on December 8, 2009 at 2:52 pm
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What's funny about this is that the perps (if convicted) will get a whopping 15 years in prison.
Whaat? Sure makes the South Side of Chicago seem like a great vacation spot.
****UPDATE**** Russian police have since arrested the perps, as can be seen HERE at MSNBC.
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PERM, November 13, (RIA Novosti) - A 25-year old man was killed, dismembered, eaten and parts of his body sold to a nearby fast-food stand in the Perm region of the Russian Urals, criminal investigators have reported.
According to the official site of the local Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's office, three homeless men killed the victim out of "personal enmity."
"They stabbed him several times with a knife and a hit him with a hammer. The victim died at the scene of the crime," the site reports.
All three of the perpetrators, who have previous criminal records, have been detained. If convicted, they face up to 15 years in prison.
Published on November 22, 2009 at 6:25 pm
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We wanted to begin having our staff write the news...but this reads funnier/scarier than anything we could have reported on. A man has a finger wound (bitten, perhaps?) and leaves the hospital to bite and eat the flesh from another man's arm...
Folks, it just doesn't get any better/worse than this:
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By Paula Devlin, The Times-Picayune
April 07, 2009
A Metairie resident is recovering after a stranger bit a chunk of flesh out of his arm and swallowed it Saturday afternoon.
Joseph Lancellotti, 67, told authorities he did not know the suspect, later identified as Mario Vargas, 48, or why he was attacked in his front yard.
Lancellotti was gardening at his home in the 4400 block of Kawanee Avenue about 2 p.m. when he noticed a man walking toward his house, shouting angrily, the report said. Lancellotti said he couldn't understand the man because he was yelling in Spanish. But when the man got within two feet, he slugged Lancellotti in the head, the report said.
Lancellotti said he tried to defend himself with a garden rake. As the men struggled over the rake, the stranger bent over and bit Lancellotti on his right forearm, the report said. Lancellotti's flesh ripped away as he fell to the ground. The man then got on top of Lancellotti and began choking him, the report said.
It was then that neighbor Chantal Lorio, a podiatrist and director of the Wound Center at East Jefferson General Hospital, came out to check on Lancellotti. Lorio said Monday that she first thought Lancellotti was having a heart attack and the other man was trying to help him.
The stranger was still gripping Lancellotti as Lorio noticed her neighbor was lying in a pool of blood. She didn't learn what happened until she began dressing the wound -- with the stranger still clutching her neighbor's shirt.
"He said, 'He bit my arm, chewed the flesh and swallowed it in front of me, ' " Lorio recalled. She said the bite measured almost 3 by 1 1/2 inches, and was less than 1/4-inch deep.
The pair tried to calm the stranger, who never made any attempt to run away. He eventually let go of Lancellotti and walked two blocks to a parking lot, where he hovered near an empty police car, the report said. The suspect was still standing there when deputies arrived and took him into custody.
Vargas, of 724 Camp St., New Orleans, was booked with second-degree battery. He was being held Monday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna in lieu of $25,000 bail.
Lancellotti's wife, Bonnie, 60, said Monday that her husband was recovering from the bite, physically and mentally. She said his sense of safety in his neighborhood has been shaken.
With all the bacteria involved, Lorio said a bite from a human is worse than an animal bite.
Bonnie Lancellotti also has concerns about the suspect, who apparently had been treated at East Jefferson General Hospital earlier in the day for a finger injury. Vargas was released 45 minutes before the attack, according to the incident report.
Bonnie Lancellotti wondered whether hospital staff noticed anything amiss while treating Vargas. "This person's clearly lost his sense, " she said. "I mean, what else can you say, eating people's skin?"
Keith Darcey, spokesman for the hospital, said, "We cannot comment on any individual patient because of privacy laws. But as a matter of general hospital policy, the emergency department has behavioral health nurses available to help diagnose patients who might require mental health assistance."
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Published on November 2, 2009 at 9:49 pm
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