The walking dead are great adversaries for video games, which by their nature pit lone protagonists against endless waves of disposable enemies. But I think we may have finally hit the point of zombie saturation.

You’ve got Burn Zombie Burn out and getting reviews. Plants vs. Zombies is coming May 5th. Valve just released a new survival mode for Left 4 Dead. The Last Stand 2 is still one of Armor’s most popular web games. The Dead Rising 2 hype machine is starting to crank up. Onechanbara: Bikini Zombie Slayers is only a few months old. Resident Evil 5 was the spring blockbuster, though the series is edging farther away from zombies with each new title.

Am I missing any here?

Oh, wait, I am. There’s also House of the Dead: Overkill, Zombie Massacre, Dead Rising: Chop Till You Drop, Zombie Wranglers and Zombie Apocalypse.

As a qualified guru of pop culture*, I think the unthinkable is happening. Zombies are becoming uncool!

Of course, the true hipsters among us knew that zombies were uncool the moment they became popular, but even the uncultured masses are going to get fed up with them at this point. And since games can take years to make, there’s no telling how many other unannounced titles are in development with shambling undead.

Pretty soon, the Internet is going to find something else to latch on to, and developers will follow suit.

I’m thinking wolfmen are due for a revival.

*I’m qualified because I write on a blog, you see.

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