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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.

September 9, 2011
PC

Dead Island Maker Gives Leading Lady ‘Feminist Whore’ Skill

One of the unlockable skills for Dead Island leading lady Purna allows her to deal extra damage against male victims. It’s called Gender Wars in the game, but the original skill was apparently named “Feminist Whore”.

September 8, 2011
PC

Dead Island Goes From 30 To 90 In Six Reviews

Should you spend your holidays playing Techland’s Dead Island? Normally in this situation looking at a range of video game review scores would help. Normally.

PC

6 Minutes With Dead Island’s Asphyxiated, Chopped Zombies

Dead Island has nothing to do with that family and their child and that sad death. But that doesn’t mean it’s a bad game.

September 7, 2011
PC

Glitchy Steam Version Of Dead Island Will Be Patched ASAP

In a statement to Kotaku, Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has apologised for the wrong version of the game being uploaded to Steam. The correct, patched version will be available as soon as possible. Check out the full statement here.

News

The Final Moments Of That Heartbreaking Dead Island Family Discovered In The Game

I think we were all a bit shocked when Techland told Kotaku earlier this year that the family so poignantly represented in the award-winning trailer for Dead Island wouldn’t actually be in the game.

PC

There’s Something Fishy About The Steam Version Of Dead Island

Last night before I hit the sack I set up a download of the Steam version of Techland’s Dead Island. This morning I woke up to what many others discovered last night -— this doesn’t seem to be the right version of the game.

September 6, 2011
PC

Whoops, You Might Be Playing An Unfinished Version Of Dead Island

Those who have been among the first to download zombie game Dead Island from Steam have been finding things a little odd. A number of features/cheats like no-clipping, which normally aren’t available automatically in games, are just a button press away. And there may be a very good, very funny reason for this.

September 2, 2011
PlayStation

The (Zombie) Women Of Dead Island

Before everyone died in horror game Dead Island, they liked to hit the pool and drink beverages with little umbrellas in them. Those days are dead, err, gone.

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