They might not have any brains, but zombies sure are persistent.

Take, for instance, the undead stars of PopCap's legendary tower defense game, Plants Vs. Zombies. Since first clawing their way out of the ground in 2009, they've chomped through PCs, snacked on Macs and shambled over to smartphones, trashing gardens left and right. We keep killing them, but they keep springing back to life -- most recently, on your PlayStation Vita.

John RomeroJohn Romero, one of the chief architects of the seminal first-person shooter Doom, is returning to the genre that made him a celebrity.

It's been a dozen years since Romero has made a shooter, but in an interview with Eurogamer, he confirmed plans to return to making action games, though he's not ready to divulge a lot of details yet.

"Yes, I'm definitely going to be making another shooter and it will be on PC first," he said. "I don't want to talk about the details but I already know what it is. I've already kind of designed the thing and it's pretty cool -- though of course, I am going to say that. I think it's a neat design, I haven't seen the design anywhere else."

Sick of fighting off wave after wave of baddies in tower defense games? How about giving the towers a taste of their own medicine?

That's precisely the plan in Anomaly Warzone Earth, the world's first tower offense game.

A pesky alien horde has taken over Earth's cities, setting up giant, ugly, laser-y turrets all over the place. Your job? Blow them back to their homeworld by guiding a squad of armored vehicles through the streets. A variety of power-ups will help you heal, camouflage and upgrade units as you carve a path through the carnage.

Fallout's mascot, Pip-Boy"War… war never changes."

Set the WABAC machine to 1997.  Bill Clinton's in the White House, the Spice Girls are tearing up the pop charts, and a gritty post-apocalyptic role-playing game is dazzling critics across the PC gaming world.  The game's name?  Fallout.

Finding secret features of your DVDs, games, and websites is no easy task

By Mike Wehner, Tecca

An Easter egg hunt is always a good time for kids and adults alike. And while finding a colorful canister filled with candy or other goodies is always exciting, "digital Easter eggs" can be just as enjoyable. Many games, DVDs, and even websites contain Easter eggs — a term used for hidden extras can be discovered as long as you know where to look. In celebration of the upcoming Easter holiday, we've compiled five of our favorite virtual secrets that are just waiting to be found!

Sometimes to get the job done, you've got to get your hands dirty.

Last week's Yahoo! Games poll -- "Who is the greatest video game anti-hero?" -- asked you to choose the unsavory do-gooder you'd want watching your back.

With 39% (18,164) of your votes, the baddest good guy in gaming is Donkey Kong.  The elder statesman (statesape?) certainly earns his place atop the heap with longest, most illustrious career out of the entire field.

Bioware hinted a few weeks ago that it was thinking about changing the ending of Mass Effect 3, following a loud protest by the player community.

Looks like they're following through.

The developer has announced Mass Effect 3: Extended Cut, a free, downloadable content pack that will give further clarity to the game's ending and hopefully put an end to the debate. The expansion is due this summer for all versions of the game.

Skylanders: Cloud Patrol (Activision)Just what we needed: another reason to collect Skylanders.

Now that the immensely popular toy/game franchise has conquered your game console, raided your toy store and flooded your eBay, it's taking aim at your iWhatever. On Thursday, Activision released Skylanders: Cloud Patrol exclusively on the App Store.