Zombie master George A Romero plans on getting back into videogames and will soon release a neato app for iPhone that offers a personal and creepy touch. In an interview with Gamepro, Romero talked about his new iPhone app, App of the Dead, and plans to work on a new videogame.

He also talks quite a bit about the videogame industry and videogames in general - but admits that at his tender age he is not capable of playing anything other than computer chess.

His first stab at creating a videogame, Kuju Entertainment's City of the Dead, fell through with the bankruptcy of Hip Interactive. The new app lets you take a picture of someone and turn them into a zombie for fun. Here's more on both projects:

[INDENT]There are 20 different make-up effects that we've put into this app. The app is great because you can customize your undead to your preference. It's a lot of fun for me to see others empowered with the ability to create zombies. I would love to turn my ex into a zombie.

There will be a future video game version of this. We're working on an interesting game that's essentially a shooting gallery where you can take the zombies you create and splatter them into bloody pulps.[/INDENT] The rest of the interview is pretty interesting, delving into why Romero didn't start out calling the undead in his movies "zombies," the current popularity of zombies - which he attributes to videogames, and the evolution of the zombie movie monster. Check it out at [URL=http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/215323/master-of-horror-george-a-romero-takes-a-stab-at-games/]GamePro[/URL]. [URL=http://www.gameculture.com/2010/06/03/george-romero-talks-zombies-and-videogames][B][COLOR=#8e0505]Read More[/COLOR][/B][/URL]

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