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Dead Island’s Delayed DLC Should Get A New Release Date Next Week

7:00PM October 1, 2011 | Owen Good

September 30 has come and gone, meaning “Bloodbath Arena”, the multiplayer DLC due to those who preordered Dead Island (and those willing to pay $US10 after the fact) is officially delayed. More »


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Lionsgate Is Making A Movie Based On The Dead Island Trailer

3:00AM September 28, 2011 | Mike Fahey

It doesn’t get any more official than an announcement from Lionsgate motion picture group president Joe Drake; there will be a Dead Island movie, and it sounds like it will be the first major motion picture based on a video game trailer. More »


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Dead Island: The Kotaku Review

3:00AM September 17, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »


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Dead Island Devs Push Back DLC To Focus On Bug Squashing

12:40AM September 16, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »


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Dead Island Nears 2M

9:30PM September 15, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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.


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

3:00PM September 15, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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


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Analog Fighting In Dead Island

1:15PM September 15, 2011 | Brian Crecente

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. More »


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Dead Island Takes Unexpected Flight With This Jeep Glitch

1:30AM September 15, 2011 | Matthew Buzzi

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


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Modders Unite To Fix The PC Version Of Dead Island

10:30AM September 13, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

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. More »


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Dead Island’s Trailer Was Amazing, Appalling And Enlightening

6:00AM September 13, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

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. More »