Rumor: The Bigs dev gathering for a Zombie Ritual

by Jason Dobson { Aug 13th 2008 at 5:08PM }

Since bringing baseball home to the everyman in last year's The Bigs, Vancouver's Blue Castle Games has been eerily quiet regarding its future plans, be they grounded in sports or, as music site Loudside writes it, waking the dead. According to the website, the developer plans to release a title called Zombie Ritual sometime later this year, and that the as-yet-unannounced game will include music from the appropriately named hometown rockers, Cradle To Grave.

According to the report, the studio plans to ship Zombie Ritual in "late 2008," and expects to have a half million copies of the title on store shelves in the first week. A quick glance at Blue Castle's website reveals that the company is in fact working on two new unnamed sports titles and one action game, though unless the devs plan on having us field grounders or going long with teams of recently exhumed corpses, we're betting Zombie Ritual will be of the latter.

Tags: blue-castle, bluecastle, rumor, the-bigs, zombie-ritual, zombies

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shmil @ Aug 13th 2008 5:15PM

Should I be proud or slightly ashamed that I recognized the photo from Shaun of the Dead before the picture finished loading?

syrik zero @ Aug 13th 2008 5:18PM

Proud of course! One of the best Zombie movies ever ever ever made =)

Bass Masterson @ Aug 13th 2008 7:16PM

Actually it was both a bad zombie movie _and_ a bad comedy.

syrik zero @ Aug 13th 2008 9:20PM

You're a loser masturbator =D

Vcize @ Aug 13th 2008 5:16PM

As fun as zombie games are, I hope this doesn't mean they're not planning on releasing another iteration of The Bigs.

That game was a lot of fun.

Unknown @ Aug 13th 2008 5:17PM

We're not using the Zed word.

syrik zero @ Aug 13th 2008 5:20PM

Haha awesome! Zombies are the best creatures ever made. I try to play all games and watch all movies that have zombies as a main focus. Can't wait for Dead Space and Left4Dead! I'll try this game out too

5th hot meal @ Aug 13th 2008 5:18PM

proud!

5th hot meal @ Aug 13th 2008 5:21PM

I for one can never get too much zombie action in either celluloid or interactive form. on hearing that Left 4 Dead will be available to play at Leipzig this year (in just a couple of weeks) I have booked my flight and hotel in anticipation, fine German beer and slaughtering zombies, what more could a mere mortal ask for?

now if I can just find a way to get my shottie through airport security...