Content Falls In FALL 2010 LET’S GET STARTED Your Letters Editor-In-Chief 4 CAPCOM Letter From The Editor Editorial Director Greg Off 8 Senior Editor KEEPING ENTERTAINED Stacy Burt The Hot List Associate Editor 10 David Brothers Night Time Visitors Assistant Editor 12 Lindsay Young All The Brains You Can Eat Contributing Medical Expert 14 Isabela Keyes Five Ways To Tell If Your Date Director of Photography Is Infected Frank West 16 Senior Designer Timothy Lindquist Wingin’ It Associate Designers 20 Cyrin Jocson, STYLE • LOOKING GOOD Sarah Gilbert, Alvin Domingo Save The World And Look Good National Advertising Director Doing It Brady Hartel 22 Security Does This Make Me Look Dead? Brad Garrison, Jessica McCarney 26 Janitor DIY: Affordable Mayhem Otis Washington 30 Transportation What’s Your Perfect Match? Ed DeLuca A PARTNERSHIP TO BENEFIT DEAD RIGHTS 34 FEATURE PRESENTATION The New Guy In Town 38 Fortune City’s Players 42 “ZQ” is trademark of Capcom. All rights reserved. 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Intercept watches give prompt alerts and Questions regarding operation of the game software and messages as they arrive. Always know how much time you have hardware should be directed to the support numbers provided intercept by the game and device manufacturers in their documentation. before the infection begins… » THE ABSOLUTE WAYPOINT SINCE 1873 Printed in the United States of America FALL 2010 3 You MAIL Letters from Watches are like cell phones, they do Leveling up is one of life’s greatest everything these days. I loved the ability pleasures, and I’m happy to see it POWER TO THE PEOPLE of your featured watch to provide a list covered in ZQ. Some of my friends Who knew all I had to do to save my of your latest messages. This makes it didn’t know all the PP they earned was The summer cover story featured progress was use the john? Toilets are easy for busy people like me to select what caused them to level up and gain the basics of protecting yourself in so high-tech these days. which objective I feel like completing sweet new skills. I had no idea they case of a zombie outbreak—including first and see which ones I’m running were so clueless! Thanks for setting how to spot and use weapons and Vikki Taylor behind on. them straight! the importance of bathroom breaks Boston, Massachusetts (“You’ve Got The Right To Fight”). Janus Razon Curtis Ellenton I’ve done some weapons training in Reno, Nevada Tampa Bay, Florida I used to go crazy wondering who might my past, but I had never tried carrying be infected and what I could do to save more than one. The section about WE ALL NEED PP I don’t mean to sound like a tool, but you myself from zombification. I can’t even making the most of your inventory was totally forgot to mention that leveling begin to tell you how grateful I am for great. Next time I’m going to pick up as You can earn more than just money in up can earn you new Combo Cards in this article. It empowered me with the many weapons as my inventory allows Fortune City. In our summer issue, we addition to skills and attributes. I mean, confidence to protect myself. Now, I’m and press the two inventory buttons to covered the best spots to snag PP and how could you forget about Combo not afraid to pick up anything with a instantly switch between items. reach new levels of success (“Don’t Cards? These blueprints for creating yellow weapon icon and let a zombie Forget To PP”). combo weapons are essential in an have it by pressing the attack button. Jared Davis mixed drinks to increase your stats? Or outbreak. Hartford, Connecticut breaking open ATMs and registers to I was totally unaware of the importance Rosa Collins get extra cash? This newbie stuff isn’t This sick way of looking at zombies is of PP before reading this article. I Anim White New York City, New York helping anyone. exactly what is wrong with this country. had heard you could earn it by killing Willamette, Colorado These infected humans are people’s zombies, but didn’t know you also Michael Woo loved ones. How could you think this earned it by saving survivors, giving Willamette, Colorado disgusting mockery of their condition your kids gifts, and defeating psychos. is funny? We need to try to cure these Maybe I’ll stop skipping out on escort We’ve taken your comment to heart, people, not think of ways to use them missions. Michael. Please see this issue’s “Save as exercise equipment. The World And Look Good Doing It” for Brian Scherbey more advanced survival tips. – Editors Stacey Forsythe Atlantic City, New Jersey San Francisco, California ZOMBIE BOOTCAMP WATCH IT Our summer issue’s style section Watches were the accessories provided a humorous look at how to use of the summer, and we zombies in your daily exercise (“Getting explored the pros and cons of The Workout Of Your Life”). the best on the market (“What Time Is It?”). The imaginative use of zombies in everyday workouts was hilarious. I had no idea some watches Who would ever think to use them as require you to press the left a motivational running buddy? I can directional button in order to guarantee my running performance properly view them. Good to Brain snippet: According to a recent I was really disappointed at your would increase tenfold with a zombie on know! study, 9.9 out of 10 people who write pathetically basic zombie combat my tail. to ZQ are actual, living people. Yes, the coverage. Everyone knows you pick up Jasper Sanford missing 1% are undead but no, zombies Allen Ash Fortune City, Nevada don’t write us. Sometimes the mail is weapons by pressing the action button slower than a shambling corpse and and use food to heal wounds. Where Los Angeles, California we get letters from people who were was the information about using vicitmized after writing. Let’s be careful out there! 4 FALL 2010 QFALL 2010 5 CONTROL EVOCATION TO BE MOVED PUNCH : SQUARE/X (NO ITEMS) | ATTACK/EAT ITEM (ITEM DEPENDENT) : SQUARE/X (WITH ITEMS) SECONDARY ATTACK (ITEM DEPENDENT) : HOLD SQUARE/X | CALL SURVIVOR : TRIANGLE/Y | JUMP : X/A PLAY SHARP, L I V E S M A R T PICK UP/USE : CIRCLE/B | CENTER CAMERA : R3/CLICK RIGHT STICK | RANGED MODE : L2/LT | SEND SURVIVOR : L2+TRIANGLE/LT+Y | THROW ITEM/FIRE PROJECTILE WEAPON : L2+SQUARE OR L2 + R2/LT+X OR LT+RT Offering an irresistible mixture of advanced technology and classic allure, the controls of Dead Rising 2 are to die for. A promising tool MAP SCREEN : SELECT BUTTON/BACK BUTTON | UN-EQUIP ITEM : DIRECTIONAL BUTTON UP/D-PAD UP DROP CURRENT WEAPON : DIRECTIONAL BUTTON/D-PAD DOWN | CHECK WATCH : DIRECTIONAL PAD/D-PAD LEFT filled with hopes and dreams, the undead can’t keep their hands off of you, while the living can’t help but run to you. The overwhelming ANSWER CALLS/HOLD TO ACCESS FRIEND LIST : DIRECTIONAL BUTTON/D-PAD RIGHT sense of both confidence and security emanating from your aura makes it difficult to deny you as everyone’s hero. Letter from the Editor By Stacy Burt Five years ago, we weren’t sure what was going to happen to humanity. The zombie outbreak in Willamette, Colorado was a wakeup call like nothing else the world has ever seen. Science fiction had come to life. Zombies were real, and they were on the prowl. Were we just going to sit there and get chomped? I think not. We had the technology and the know-how to take control of zombification. Just like we handled every other highly infectious disease, we took the necessary steps to contain the threat, and with the introduction of Zombrex, our lives have returned to normal. Zombies are still around, but they’ve become a part of our everyday lives. Sometimes we hear about an outbreak in some less fortunate town, but this grand city likes to keep its zombies in the arena. You may have heard about a little show called Terror is Reality. The success of TiR has sent zombies to the top of our pop culture charts. Everyone’s aiming to get a look at the infected firsthand. Fashion has been heavily influenced (see “Does This Make Me Look Dead?”), nightlife has been given a new spectacle (see “Night Time Visitors”), and even dating has taken a new turn (see “Five Ways to Tell If Your Date Is Infected”). This month, we at ZQ look at the latest in zombie trends and interview local celebrities and new kids on the block to give us the lowdown on what to really expect from a zombie encounter, and how they have used the zombie phenomenon to find success.