#chicken-zombie

#chicken-zombie

"If scavenging supplies in the middle of a zombie outbreak sounds fun to you, then grab your ruck, pack some mags, and register for a chance to be included in the alpha," State of Decay co-creator Brant Fitzgerald said, while adding that there will be more opportunities throughout the year to test out the game.

Ditto's appearance as a protagonist of one of the best games of 2026 would likely never have happened had it not been for one episode of the original anime.

Looking back from 2026, it's almost impossible to believe that video games were once treated as a flippant, dead-end hobby reserved for burnouts and social outcasts.

Described as a mashup of games like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing, you play as Ditto impersonating a human being to create a utopian habitat for Pokémon left behind in the wake of Earth's human population disappearing. For as cute as that sounds (and is), the big question in every player's head is... what happened, exactly?

Long after the era of flesh-eating zombies popularized by George A. Romero had faded into the sunset, the team at Capcom injected new life into the genre with the original Resident Evil, a game that not just revitalized zombie media but practically created the blueprint for the modern survival horror game. It goes without saying that the first game was an unprecedented success, spawning both a lasting video game franchise as well as a multimedia empire.

The woods in Reanimal are full of surprises. You will encounter human cadavers that slither like snakes, gigantic talking pigs, and, at one point, a forlorn, supersized whale who seems resigned to an agonizingly slow death. These variously monstrous beings inhabit a realm that, though it looks like our own, seems to defy spatial logic: the forest leads to an oceanic expanse, which segues into a decrepit, towering city. It's like Aesop's Fables meets the nightmare visions of both Lars von Trier and J.G. Ballard.