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‘Days Gone’ Borrows the Best Thing About ‘World War Z’
When I first relayed the reveal of the post-apocalyptic PS4-exclusive Days Gone, I compared it to The Last of Us and “Sons of Anarchy”. This was before I realized one very cool thing the game is borrowing from Hollywood’s commercially successful, albeit woefully generic, adaptation of Max Brooks’ eponymous novel that ultimately had little to do with the movie it inspired.
The film did do a very interesting thing with its zombies, which it presented with as little humanity as one could expect to movie starring zombies. In World War Z (the movie), the infected behave like a swarm of insects, as tens of millions of us witnessed for the very first time in the trailer, which culminates in the literal hurling of bodies at the walls of Jerusalem, or the equally memorable poster where the infected employ the Jenga method in order to reach a helicopter.
As you’re about to see in this lengthy gameplay demonstration of Days Gone is how it borrows probably the only thing that really worked in that film, and use it to a spectacular effect that offers a glimpse at what our fancy new gaming hardware is now capable of.
The discovery of life beyond Earth leads to paranoia and danger for a family in the new trailer for The Outer Threat.
The sci-fi thriller heads to Digital and VOD on July 10, 2026.
In The Outer Threat, “After making a groundbreaking extraterrestrial discovery, astrophysicists Daniel and Michelle are forced to flee from home with their family — pursued through the countryside by a relentless and anonymous assailant. As their flight unfolds, the line between cosmic revelation and human paranoia blurs, leading to a tense and emotional confrontation that challenges the boundaries of understanding, science, and survival.“
The film comes from writer-director William Woods and stars Constance Wu, Mark O’Brien, William Fichtner, Callista Crowe, Isaac Smelcer-Zhang, Oscar Hsu, and Murray Furrow.
Maddy Falle, Albert Shin, and Allison White produce. Executive producers include Rob McGillivray, Ben Stranahan, Tom Spriggs, John Hansen III, Patrick Vipond, Jared Blaichman, Jonah Blaichman, and Randall Okita.
The Outer Threat arrives on the heels of Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day, circling similar territory. The truth about the existence of aliens leads to danger in the trailer below.
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