PC

Plastic Coathangers Are Also Lethal In This Real-Life Dead Island Film

There are awesome ways to start your morning, but they probably aren’t jampacked into just three minutes, like this Dead Island re-enactment from Chris Cropper‘s Going Nowhere Show.


September 17, 2011
PC

Dead Island: The Kotaku Review

This is the part where I’d try to artfully describe how I meticulously took apart a zombie with an electrified fire axe on a pristine beach, sky-blue waters lapping at my knees.


September 16, 2011
PC

Dead Island Devs Push Back DLC To Focus On Bug Squashing

Dead Island‘s expansion packs, both announced and not, may be hitting later than planned as developers refocus their energy on fixing the game, Deep Silver tells Kotaku.


September 15, 2011
PC

Dead Island Nears 2M

Buggy, but fun hack-and-slash zombie role-playing game Dead Island/ shipped more than a million copies to stores in the first few days of release and expects to send out two million globally by the end of week, the publishers say. Of course, these aren’t sold to gamers numbers, but it is still pretty impressive.


PC

A Chance To Play Through Dead Island’s Pre-Story?

This is sort of known, but I thought still worth talking among you fellow (few?) Dead Island fans.


PC

Analog Fighting In Dead Island

Love it for its body parts, looting, insanity and amazing settings, hate it for its ludicrous bugs and iffy graphics, either way you owe it to yourself to at least check Dead Island out.


News

Dead Island Takes Unexpected Flight With This Jeep Glitch

Dead Island has earned itself somewhat of a reputation for being buggy. Some glitches, though, go the extra mile — in this case quite literally.


September 13, 2011
PC

Modders Unite To Fix The PC Version Of Dead Island

The PC Version of Dead Island has had a pretty rough launch. First, the developers’ code was accidentally released in place of the retail version on Steam. Even after that problem was remedied, the final code on PC was buggy and the multiplayer servers were problematic.


PC

Dead Island’s Trailer Was Amazing, Appalling And Enlightening

The reviews are in for Techland’s open-world zombie RPG Dead Island. Reviewers are talking about immersion and HUDs, PC bugs and control issues, and whether it is possible to love a game for the cool moments it provides while accepting that it has significant flaws. But from review to review, there is one constant: that damned trailer.


September 11, 2011
PC

Dead Island DLC Shambles Forth Later This Month

Here’s something I didn’t know: Those who pre-ordered Dead Island got a code for free DLC, which includes the “Bloodbath Arena” and a weapon called “the Ripper”. They just can’t use the Arena until it releases for everyone, evidently.