The Burn Zombie Burn World Tour Competition finished on November 2nd. We’ll be announcing the winners soon, so watch this space!

With Halloween around the corner, MSNBC have done a nice bit of coverage for games that fit the Halloween mindset. What’s rather cool is that Burn Zombie Burn was featured. Anyway, the video is linked below so feel free to have a gander.

Following on from our previous Home space trailer, the wondrous Mark Jagger has produced a new video to show off the new Halloween themed costumes available (as well as the cool statues you’ll be able to buy for your apartment). As always Jagger has a good sense of humour with these things. Enjoy!

For those that played Super Mario World back in the day, you’ll find the following video pretty amazing. There are a few of these going the rounds, but this is by far the most brilliant. To really appreciate how wonderfully clever this is you need sound, as everything is synced up with the audio.

Not that long ago we launched a cool Burn Zombie Burn Home area. It’s been quite popular and we’re planning on doing more with it. We also did a funky trailer for the Home area too but it seemed to get lost amongst the undead throng. In any case, we’ve finally managed to upload it (in HD no less). Enjoy!

Well slap me sideways and call me Mary. 2 weeks gone and 2 weeks to go for the Burn Zombie Burn World Tour Competition and the scores have been flying in and flying high.

Right now, as you can see from the table above, Mr/Mrs ‘therealfire’ is in the lead with a staggering score. Even the top five have made my, once proud, dev score look quite woeful. Damn you! *Shakes Fist*

BUT the competition is not over! you still have until the 2nd of November to get a score up and win a trip of a life time to Paris and Egypt and runners up some cool BZB artwork. So come on guys whip out your shotgun and poke it in a zombies face (you know you want to).

If you didn’t click on the links above the Comp info and rules are found here and leaderboard is found here.

Happy Zombie slaying my D6 Chums

Following on from the Dev Diaries for South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play posted by Pete and Nadar, comes the mighty mumblings from both myself here as well as the Lead Coder on the Project Lukasz ‘Wisent‘ Ziolkowski and Coder Kingsley ‘I suck at Left4Dead’ Pratt here.

For some reason I thought there was a 300 word cap on the dev diaries so mine is but a mere morsel (an unbelievably tasty morsel) compared to Lukasz and Kingsley’s vivid insights.

Anyway Enjoy my D6 Brothers… and Sisters

For our fans in the US, you might have noticed a rather interesting link at the top of the “What’s New” section when you booted up your PlayStation 3’s today. This is to promote the Burn Zombie Burn World Tour competition.

The rules are simple; score as high as you can in Secret Lab on Freeplay before November 2nd. Whoever comes first and has a valid US PSN account gets a lovely holiday, specifically to visit the eerie Catacombs of Paris and the magnificent Valley of the Kings! The remainder of the top ten scores will receive exclusive artwork from the team here at doublesix.

To check your status on the leaderboards, the Secret Lab Freeplay board has been uploaded to a web based leaderboard for the duration of the competition. If you need any pointers on how to play the level, as it’s quite tricky, then we have a helpful video on our YouTube channel in case you get stuck. Good luck!

As part of BBC Four’s ongoing Electric Dreams season, a recent drama about the 80’s computer boom in the UK was aired a few days ago. Called Micro Men it featured the rivalry between Sir Clive Sinclair and Chris Curry. Considering that the vast majority of the people making video games today in the UK is a result of the fact that both these men enabled children to get access to personal computers, the legacy of hardware like the ZX Spectrum and the BBC Micro is almost palpable.

If you missed the drama first time around, then you can still watch it on iPlayer (if you live in the UK).

For those that remember our Burn Zombie Burn launch cake, we now have a new cake for the just launched South Park Let’s Go Tower Defense Play. This cake was baked by the ever wonderful Sam Sinclair, the wife of our technical director.