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Now that we've experienced the horrors of Banoi island through the eyes of Dead Island's four protagonists, it's time to get a little antagonistic. Villain Ryder White steals the spotlight in the next installment of Dead Island downloadable content. More »
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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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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'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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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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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. More »
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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 named "Feminist Whore." [UPDATED] More »
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Should you spend your vacation time on Techland's Dead Island? Normally in this situation looking at a range of video game review scores would help. Normally. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837966&view=rss&microfeed=true In a statement to Kotaku, Dead Island publisher Deep Silver has apologized 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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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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. More »
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With a musical cue taken from the heartbreaking trailer that started all of this Dead Island excitement in the first place, here's the final trailer for Techland's tropical zombie apocalypse, hitting stores next week. More »
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Pawel Blaszczak, a composer with credits on Call of Juarez and the first The Witcher, is handling the music for the upcoming Dead Island, whose soundtrack will be released separately in the game's collector's edition. Developer Techland let the Polish-language site Gameplay hear and share three of the cuts, embedded here and below. More »
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Deep Silver has a game forthcoming that features islands, water, and people in pirate costumes, and it ain't Dead Island. No, it is Risen 2: Dark Waters, the sequel to a game that was a fantasy RPG. More »
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From its bittersweet debut trailer to its brutally gore-ified combat, Dead Island has captured the attention of zombie gamer around the globe. Earlier this week it captured my attention for several hours, and I wasn't entirely pleased. More »
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"We hang together, or we fucked." Truer words have never been spoken, in or out of a co-op trailer for Dead Island. More »
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Inspired by the award-winning CGI trailer that sort of vaguely touched on the actual gameplay of Techland's upcoming zombie survival game, UK author Mark Morris delivers his take on the tropical carnage with Dead Island: The Book. More »
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The zombie strain that strikes the vacationers on Dead Island is so virulent that even advertising the game results in a full-on undead plague, as European PlayStation Home users will discover shortly before the game launches in September. More »
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It's no surprise that Deep Silver's zombie title is getting an M-rating. The certificate just handed to it by the ESRB is still a little interesting for the bits of details it gives up from the game, from dialogue to gameplay features. More »
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A preorder of Dead Island with Amazon will land buyers a digital art book filled with "game art and concept art of everything from the characters, that fat tourist dude with the camera, zombie types, environment concepts" and more, Deep Silver says. More »
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Dead Island had been sending mixed signals—I wasn't able to tell whether this title was meant to be a goofy splatterfest or emotionally devastating. Having now had the chance to experience the game first hand, I think it's trying to be a little of both. Surprisingly, the combination works. More »
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Upcoming first-person zombie game Dead Island has been promising a few twists and novel features outside the usual "run around and kill zombies" formula. More »
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While it's certainly not the game-changing first trailer for Dead Island, today's just-released trailer attempts to give a tug to those same heartstrings with music right out of a Hallmark commercial matched to in-game footage. More »
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Techland's Dead Island reminds me of a recurring nightmare, an unsettling dream of helplessness in which my body feels too fatigued and feeble to fight off nameless, faceless attackers. And beyond a cinematically inventive trailer, that's my favorite thing about Dead Island so far. More »
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Deep Silver is a lovely little company, but when a game generates the sort of buzz Dead Island stirred up with its stunning trailer, the big guns need to be called in. That's why Techland's zombie vacation game is coming to the Americas via Square Enix. More »
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Granted, I'd be hard pressed to list many of this year's hardcore space sim contenders, but the newly revealed X Rebirth—the latest in Egosoft's 12-year-old X series—is going to have a hard time being visually out-sexed. This is a gorgeous game. More »
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Another set of screenshots dumped today tell the tale of Sam B, a "one-hit wonder rap star of fading fame," booked for the ill-fated resort of Dead Island the weekend the apocalypse went down. Decked out in pirate garb, Sam B will be the game's Tank class, according to an accompanying release from developer Deep Silver. More »
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We're not exactly swimming in new visuals of the hyped zombie getaway game Dead Island—and what we're seeing here we feel like we've seen before—but another look at this undead curiosity is still interesting to us at Kotaku. More »
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Much hyped zombie game Dead Island has gotten the attention of the ESRB for its logo of all things. Hanging zombies are a no-no, it seems, as the game's logo has been "censored" to remove that dangling corpse. That change affects the game's box art in North America only, reports IGN. More »
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While the straitjacketed brute pictured above certainly doesn't look like a very inviting resident of this tropical getaway, new screens of the now highly anticipated Dead Island are welcome, regardless of whatever mutant zombie happens to be photobombing these shots. More »
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There is blood on the wall, a smear that drags down to the floor, bits of hair swaying gently in the breeze. It's not in the game booting up on the computer, but in the mock-bamboo and straw cabana in which I'm sitting, somewhere in an office tucked away in San Francisco's Moscone Center. More »
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Days after the haunting, evocative trailer for Dead Island showed the world that little girls can die in zombie outbreaks too, rumors hit that the game had landed a movie deal. That's not exactly true, the developers tell us. More »
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The heart-rending Dead Island trailer is giving a touch of humor and lots of lyrics, literal lyrics, in this remake by Toby Turner. More »
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Last week, the makers of zombie action game Dead Island released an unforgettable trailer for their upcoming game. They also released new screen shots of this undead paradise and they look pretty damn good too. More »
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It's been more than three years since we last heard any news on Techland's zombie survival horror game Dead Island. Now it's back, with a trailer demonstrating that not even children are safe from the undead hordes. More »
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The people who showed me the upcoming Xbox 360 port of role-playing game Risen this week told me their game could be sped through in 30 hours, savored in 90. But to check it out early, I only had one. More »
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We know what the television show Prison Break looks like, but what about the video game adaptation of said show? Take a look-see. More »
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