
Stubbs the Zombie in “Rebel Without a Pulse”, or simply Stubbs the Zombie, is a
third-person zombie game developed by Wideload Games, published by Aspyr Media,
and built on the Halo engine. It was released on October 18, 2005 for the Xbox, and
was released for Windows and Mac OS X in November that same year. Finally, the
game was released on February 10, 2006 in Europe.
The game takes place in the fictional city of Punchbowl, Pennsylvania at its opening
ceremony in 1959. The main character, Edward “Stubbs” Stubblefield, was an unsuccessful
traveling salesman in his life and was murdered in 1933 during the Great Depression by
Otis Monday after coming home to find “Stubbs” with his daughter Maggie Monday.
Otis unloaded a shotgun into his side and “Stubbs” was carelessly buried under the site
of what is now Punchbowl. Nine months later Maggie gave birth to Andrew Monday,
the playboy industrialist responsible for Punchbowl’s creation.