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!

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

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!

When we initially started Burn Zombie Burn a couple of years ago, we wanted the game to look special, unique and quite comedic. The zombies had to look quite simple and stylized, as we wanted to have as many as possible on-screen at once. That’s why we went for a low detail, cartoony approach. So here are some of Burn Zombie Burn’s original concept sketches. Enjoy!

A recent competition, over on the official PlayStation site came to a close not that long ago. The winners either nabbed a PlayStation 3 for their efforts or a t-shirt if they were the runner up (seen above). Naturally, we’ve decided to include the names of the winners below for posterity.

Winner:

• lucamig (Italy)

Runners- up:

• a_rosz (Poland)
• Caibert (France)
• Chelsea23 (United Kingdom)
• Komond_Deckard (Spain)

James was recently interviewed on GI.biz over the sales boost Burn Zombie Burn received off the recent PlayStation 3 firmware update (3.00). As it now features a “What’s New” section on startup, allowing people to see straight away what’s happening on the PSN storefront without having to load it up directly. In addition, the increase in PlayStation 3 Slim sales has obviously accentuated this new feature. In any case, it makes digitally distributed games more visible and this makes us happy.

The regular Jackie Kashian podcast, entitled the Dork Forest, featured Ollie from the studio this week. Whilst he spends most of the time talking about robot toys he does get a brief mention about the upcoming “In Space” DLC for Burn Zombie Burn. The podcast is on iTunes but you can also listen to it here.

Separately, his recent Roboto-chan column over at Game Set Watch which covers the more contemporary Transformers games was also posted over at Gamasutra.