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Lionsgate Buys Rights to Dead Island… Great…
1 year ago
Lionsgate announced today that they have secured the rights to Deep Silver’s smash hit, Dead Island, and will begin working on development. So far there is no word yet on writers or a director, but Sean Daniel, who produced The Mummy, will be producer on this project. Lionsgate has stated that More >
People Still Love Their Zombies – ‘Dead Island’ Ships 2 Million Units
1 year ago
It’s a fact, zombies are in. We have the popular hit show, Walking Dead, coming out with more episodes for its second season. We have another zombie game coming out, Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City, later this year.
Add in the good news that Dead Island, the melee/RPG first-person action More >
Dead Island, Where the Living Looks Scarier than the Dead
1 year ago
Here’s the accidentally released dev kit version of Dead Island where a player is playing around the game in third person. The result is pretty creepy. Note that you can’t play the game in third person in the regular game, so the scary animation and model wasn’t intended to be seen like More >
Dead Island Is Almost Here! Check Out the Release Trailer
1 year ago
Dead Island will be out next week on Tuesday, so what better way to get excited than with a new release trailer featuring more cutscenes, zombie-killing mayhem, and that very depressing Dead Island track from the first awesome trailer.
In the open-world, first-person game, you play as a group of More >
‘Dead Island’ Goes Gold, Plus New Co-Op Trailer
1 year ago
Dead Island has officially gone gold, with the game being released on September 6, 2011 in North America and September 9th everywhere else. With that announcement, here’s the new trailer featuring co-op, more zombie-killing action, and creepy-looking character models.
The comparison to Left 4 More >
Hands-On Impressions of Dead Island 4 Player Co-Op
2 years ago
One of the few games that I was really looking forward to seeing this year at E3 was Dead Island. There is just something about Survival Horror that I can’t get enough of, but recently the genre has been falling into the lines of camp and parody. Luckily, developer Deep Silver is looking to More >
First Dead Island Gameplay – 11 Minutes of Zombie-Smashin’ Goodness
2 years ago
by Ryan Southard
in Video Games
We finally get our first look at the actual gameplay of Dead Island in this new 11-minute video. I was a little worried as to whether or not this game could live up to the expectations of the trailer that was first released. It garnered a lot of attention, but now that the gameplay is out, I think More >
First Dead Island In-Game Teaser
2 years ago
Here’s a glimpse of the in-game footage for the Dead Island teaser, “Tragedy Hits Paradise”. Zombie babes in bikini run rampant in the island of Banoi. It’s a neat teaser that shows what life was before and after the zombie outbreak, as you can see with the kodak moment shots of the different More >
Dead Island’s Rap Star, Sam B, Faces the Undead in These New Screens
2 years ago
by Ryan Southard
in Video Games
Dead Island, the game that got our attention with that sad, weird, backwards trailer, is back today with a few more screens to feast on. These ones feature Sam B, the one-hit wonder rap artist whose sole claim to fame is a song called “Who Do You Voodoo”. Now I’m kind of wondering if the song will More >
Dead Island Logo Gets Censored by ESRB
2 years ago
So the ESRB gave the order for the Dead Island logo makeover. The original had a guy being hung off of the palm tree. I guess they deemed it too inappropriate because we now have a zombie in his place to represent the letter “i”. You can check out the original logo below and the newly revised logo More >
Giant Insane Zombie Loose in Dead Island
2 years ago
Dead Island has some new screenshots, one including a giant crazy-looking zombie with a straight jacket and mask to prevent biting. At least he can’t turn you into a zombie, but damn is he huge. The two other screenshots are locations that have already been attacked by zombies.
Dead Island Artwork: Hi-res Xian Mei Image
2 years ago
Here’s a nice high-res artwork of one of the characters from Dead Island, Xian Mei. She’s of Chinese origin and works as a receptionist at the Royal Palm Resort. She’s athletic and smart. The other playable characters you’ll get to play are Sam B. (former rapper), Logan (surfer) and Pura.
Dead More >
Dead Island Has 4-Player Co-op, 20 to 30 Hours of Gameplay
2 years ago
by Ryan Southard
in Video Games
Dead Island, the game whose trailer spread across the internet much like a zombie apocalypse would infect the world, has a lot of new details via Game Pro magazine.
The game takes place on Royal Palms resort. I’d say some of the more exciting aspects of the game are that it is an open-world game, More >
Dead Island Trailer Theme Now Available to Download
2 years ago
The popular original trailer theme for Dead Island is now available to download on iTunes.
The theme was both emotional and haunting as it accompanied the trailer where a family is on a vacation getaway only to be attacked by zombies. It’s produced Savalas and scored by Giles Lamb (featuring Mairi More >
Axis Animation: The Team Behind the Dead Island Trailer
2 years ago
The video game community was all about the shockingly cool viral Dead Island trailer last week, which reached over 2.5 million YouTube views. It’s a survival horror game for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC that is being released in 2011, and is about a bunch of zombies infesting a tropical island More >
Yes Another Zombie Game: Dead Island Shocking Trailer and Screenshots
2 years ago
We have a new action/RPG zombie game called Dead Island on the horizon with screenshots and a trailer. Wow, now this is a cool pre-rendered trailer. It’s pretty ballsy too to see a trailer showing a dead girl.
The trailer starts off with the dead girl on the ground as a nearby zombie walks around. More >
