The Playful Undead and Video Games

Stephen Webley is Director of The Military and Civil Simulation Technology Research & Enterprise Institute at Staffordshire University, UK Peter Zackariasson is Associate Professor in the School of Business, Economics and Law at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Introduction: Zombies zombies everywhere, what is one to think? Stephen Webley Zombies, again? A qualitative analysis of the zombie antagonists appeal in game design Matthew Barr Resurrecting "Obsolete" Video Game Techniques from Alone in the Dark and Resident Evil Matt Barton The Undead Past in the Present Historical Anxiety and the Nazi Zombie Adam Chapman The Zombification of Skyrim Penny de Byl Fantasies of Full Employment: Zombies, Video Games, and Violent Labor Michael Epp Resident Evil and Infectious Fear Christina Fawcett and Alan McGreevy Zombie video games, Eros, and Thanatos: Expressing and exploring the life and death drives through video gameplay Vanessa Haddad Through the Eyes of the Other: The Relationship between Man and Monster in Siren: Blood Curse Madelon Hoedt Dead Rising and the Gameworld Zombie Kristine Jrgensen Proliferation, Blockages, and Paths of Escape in Resident Evil and Call of Duty Brandon Kempner Zombies, Play, and Uncertainty in Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare Mitchell Lilly "A Jill Sandwich" Gender Representation in Zombie Videogames Esther Maccalum-Stewart Its Never About Zombies Post-apocalyptic World-building, Interactive Storytelling, and The Walking Dead Ksenia Olkusz, Sven Dwulecki and Krzysztof M. Maj The Pace and Range of Video Game Zombies Bernard Perron Zombies Ate Democracy: The myth of a systemic political failure in video games Eugen Pfister Queering the Zombie Tanja Sihvonen The Law of the Playful [Un]Dead: The Influences of Intellectual Property Timothy A. Wiseman "The Romeroesque" Playing with Ethics & Ideology in Zombie Games, from Indie to Mainstream and Around Again Stephen Webley Index