Dead Island surprised many people when it released earlier this year.  Deep Silver today announced the release date of the “Bloodbath Arena” DLC pack.  The DLC will be available on November 22 so get ready to head back to the island. In the “Bloodbath Arena” DLC four different arenas offer new challenges that can be [...]

Developer: Techland Publisher: Deep Silver Rating Guide: How I Review Games Dead Island takes a formulaic idea of zombies and incorporates it into a resort island.  It’s a well-balanced combination of Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3.  And, I mean that in a complimentary way.  Who do you voodoo?  Watch the video that inspired the title [...]

Congrats to Techland, Deep Silver and Square Enix.  You’ve completely filled the Dead Island with plenty of gamers.  The zombie killer shipped 1 million units in North America in its first week and 2 million worldwide. “We’re thrilled at the retail reception Dead Island has achieved in its first few days,” said Geoff Mulligan, Chief [...]

I think my desire to play this game gets less and less as more continues to be shown.  From the first trailer I expected something different.  I expected something other than a “new” take on the same old FPS zombie melee game.  But it appears that it’s a slowed down version of Left 4 Dead [...]

This news should make one of our Square Enix supporters (I’m looking at you Astrid) very happy.  The highly anticipated zombie thriller, Dead Island, will be distributed by Square Enix. “Square Enix’s impressive distribution and marketing capabilities, combined with their proven success with launching top-notch AAA titles, makes them the absolute best partner for Dead Island,” [...]

Coming out of their recent showing at GDC, Techland unloads some new Dead Island screenshots.  Everyone has been buzzing about this game since seeing the new trailer for it and these screenshots continue with that buzz.  I’m pretty excited about this game…especially excited about the fact that it wasn’t killed off. There was a stretch [...]

Had it been four years since my salivating over what Techland had revealed with its Dead Island game?  Well it hasn’t been a full four years but it was close.  Does anyone remember the first details I shared about Dead Island and my interest in it?  I gave them their own category for crying out [...]

There’s nothing like saying “Be My Valentine” than saying it with mutilated flesh and a foul smell.  Who doesn’t want a bit of blood and brains with their roses?  You can have the perfect zombie Valentine courtesy of the weird humor coming from the guys behind Techland’s Dead Island.  First they gave us a Zombie [...]

Tired of the usual merry Christmas cards?  There may be someone you’d rather scare this holiday season so Techland decided to help in that cause with Dead Island themed holiday cards.  Send your own Dead Island holiday e-postcard here.  Why do the usual for friends this year?  The site has a very cool take on Jingle [...]