{"id":106615,"date":"2016-10-04T09:53:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T07:53:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=106615"},"modified":"2016-10-04T09:58:34","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T07:58:34","slug":"researchers-explain-everything-wrong-with-the-zombie-apocalypse-in-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/106615-researchers-explain-everything-wrong-with-the-zombie-apocalypse-in-video-games","title":{"rendered":"Researchers explain everything wrong with the zombie apocalypse in video games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zombies often play a massive part in our favourite videogames.<\/p>\n<p>Whether it&#8217;s pure cannon-fodder or a terrifying antagonist, they have a special place in most gamer hearts (and brains).<\/p>\n<p>But just how plausible are these zombie-gaming scenarios in real life?<\/p>\n<p>UK biomedical research charity the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wellcome.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wellcome Trust<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0 have now released a video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PL6vkBtYmFlj8mIpvC4MGdAbJJDZdKsCL5\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>series<\/strong> <\/a>breaking down the science behind the video game The Last of Us.<\/p>\n<p>Check it out below (warning spoilers):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0Y8ZJfYZSsc?list=PL6vkBtYmFlj8mIpvC4MGdAbJJDZdKsCL5\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is how much an HDR TV costs in South Africa\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/106015-this-is-how-much-an-hdr-tv-costs-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is how much an HDR TV costs in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to This is why Xbox One sales increased by 1000% in a week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/106589-this-is-why-xbox-one-sales-increased-by-1000-in-a-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">This is why Xbox One sales increased by 1000% in a week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to 5 reasons why you can safely skip Nvidia and AMD\u2019s latest graphics cards\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/105647-5-reasons-why-you-can-safely-skip-nvidia-and-amds-latest-graphics-cards.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">5 reasons why you can safely skip Nvidia and AMD\u2019s latest graphics cards<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What will actually happen to the Last of Us?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":106619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[31,1560,183,9471],"class_list":["post-106615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-features","tag-active","tag-last-of-us","tag-video","tag-zombie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106621,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106615\/revisions\/106621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}