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Deep Silver has released a teaser video for Dead Island: Riptide. Like the controversial 2011 video for the original Dead Island, the short – called ‘When All Hope Is Lost’ – chooses to focus on the emotional aspect of a zombie apocalypse. Although this time there aren’t any dead children. …
Read More »Techland: We want to raise the bar for digital games
The developer of Call of Juarez has ditched retail for its next title and is determined to make its mark on digital instead. Polish studio Techland told MCV it wants to push the quality of digital titles” with its upcoming downloadable FPS, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, which was announced today …
Read More »Techland working on Dead Island spinoff ‘Project Hell’
Techland, the studio responsible for Dead Island, has announced a new game currently entitled Project Hell. The company’s blog explains over several posts that the title is a spinoff of Dead Island originating as an ‘internal weapon mod’ made by a Techland staffer. Thoughts of DayZ immediately sweep in. The …
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We give you a run down of the region's top developers
Read More »Dead Island dev files ‘Dead Stop’ trademark
While official confirmation is sparse, it appears there’s a lot going on with Dead Island developer Techland. The dev recently filed a trademark spotted by Siliconerafor a ‘Dead Stop’ game product which specifically applies to mobile phones and portables. There’s also rumours swirling around a Dead Island sequel entitled Dead …
Read More »Deep Silver says Dead Island 2 not in production
Spec Ops: The Line developer Yager is not currently working on Dead Island 2, publisher Deep Silver has asserted. The rebuttal comes after rumours suggesting the game was already at production at the studio. And while Deep Silver has dismissed this, it has not ruled out the possibility of such …
Read More »Anatomy of a Blockbuster: Dead Island
Develop's monthly dissection of a recent hit game
Read More »Dead Island 2 hinted at by trademark filing
It looks as if work is already underway on one of 2011’s surprise hits. Siliconera reports that Dead Island developer Techland has filed a trademark for Dead World. It’s not hard to see where that line of thinking could potentially take the already very open and free-roaming franchise. Dead Island …
Read More »Famous Dead Island trailer inspires film
Controversial promo to serve as 'primary creative inspiration', Lionsgate claims
Read More »UK CHARTS: Dead Island is the new No.1
Despite a number of challenges in its first week on the market, Deep Silver’s Dead Island has capitalised on the hype it created earlier this year to claim the No.1 in the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It triumphed despite the presence of four new entries in the …
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