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We love zombies. All zombies. The gaming industry, it seems, is more discerning in its zombie tastes. While games such as Zombie vs. Ambulance get the green light, a game adaptation of the Brit horror flick 28 Days Later doesn't. It's enough to give a guy a complex.

At the Develop Conference in England, movie producer Andrew MacDonald (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting) talked about his failure to bring 28 Days Later to consoles. The low budget flick followed a viral outbreak that turned everyone into zombies. Perfect game fodder, right?

None of the big time publishers MacDonald spoke to were interested. Ironically, it was after Bungie watched 28 Days Later (company movie night, no doubt) that the studio decided to pay the film's writer Alex Garland $1 million to write the Halo flick. It's not you Andrew, it's 28 Days Later. Honest.

The producer is currently working on a sequel to that zombie film, called 28 Weeks Later, which will likewise be shunned by the entire gaming industry. Brian Ashcraft

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