Brain Chef: game pits zombies against game-show hosts against DRM vendors

Nick sends us Brain Chef, "A fun addictive browser game. Simple to play, choose to be a human or a zombie and move around the map hunting other online players. Humans want to kill zombies. Zombies want to kill humans. Everyone wants to kill SecuROM."

Brain Chef: Fight zombies, gameshow hosts, and copyright abuse. Fight other online players too! (Thanks, Nick!)

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asymptotic | June 8, 2009 7:36 AM | Reply

Any game with graphics that belong in River City Ransom is good with me.

druranium | June 9, 2009 1:41 AM | Reply

I suddenly feel like being 11 and playing river city ransom for hours straight on my friends brothers NES was again, an awesome thing to be apart of. thank you internet

Anonymous | June 9, 2009 9:11 AM | Reply

This game seems to have cut out a major aspect of an addictive game, in that you're limited in how much you can play.

Anonymous | June 9, 2009 11:43 AM | Reply

I think the creator doesn't want to take over people's lives, just relax for ten minutes a day.

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