- Dead Island 3 is aiming for release in 2028, which means it'll take 7 years less to make than Dead Island 2 - 16 December 2025
It was a long 12-year stretch between Dead Island —the one with the famous reveal trailer—and the sequel, Dead Island 2 , which wasn't particularly great but still managed to become " the biggest launch " in Deep Silver's history. That much of a break between games isn't ideal, although in hindsight it was clearly the right move: Former Deep Silver comms chief Martin Wein said earlier this year that the publisher could have pushed out the game to meet its original release, and it probably "would have killed the franchise .".. Read more.
- The VFX company behind that Dead Island reveal trailer we all obsessed over in 2011 is shutting down - 17 July 2024
is Studios, the Scottish animation and VFX company who made the 2011 Dead Island rewinding teaser , is shutting down. Per GamesIndustry , the studio has ceased production on all its current projects, with 162 employees laid off as the company enters administration... Read more.
- Yager's unfinished take on Dead Island 2 has shambled online - 7 June 2020
Six years after announcement, and we’re still no closer to knowing when Dead Island 2 will shamble our way. Somewhat unexpectedly, though, that hasn’t stopped a select few from getting their hands on a playable build of the thing. Sort of. This week, a 2015 build of Dead Island 2 emerged online, with videos and screenshots revealed Yager’s long-buried vision of a multiplayer blood-in-the-sun sequel. (more…)
- Dead Island 2 rises from the grave with tower defense tide over - 7 July 2018
Dead Island 2 is one of my favorite trailers of all time for a game I’d all but given up on seeing. Back in 2014, the studio Yager was developing the then announced title for Deep Silver, and in 2016 the production was moved to Sumo Digital. As a reminder, it is now 2018, so Dead Island 2 and its Santa Monica-ish muder-setting seem like they have been abandoned. That is, until, Deep Silver dropped a free-to-play tower defense game called Dead Island: Survivors . The Internet has some questions about whether this mobile tie-in was taking the place of the long gestating title, and Deep Silver responded. (more…)
- Dead Island Gets A 2D Side-Scrolling Spin-Off - 10 May 2016
Dead Island continues to be the series that I don’t hear many people asking to keep on giving, but keeps on giving nonetheless. Next up is Retro Revenge , a side-scrolling, 2D, pseudo-16-bit, cat-centric beat ‘em up set in the Dead Island universe (that being “a particularly sweary zombie apocalypse and something something backwards trailers). It’s out this Summer, both on its own and as part of a bundle with the first two DIs. …
- Dead Island Retro Revenge explained by yelling cartoon man - 10 May 2016
Dead Island Definitive Edition will release later this month, bundling the original game with Dead Island: Riptide and another, more pixellated outing that we haven't heard much about, until now. Turns out Dead Island Retro Revenge is a 16-bit styled side-scrolling brawler with lots of flashing colours starring a very angry man, who is eager to get revenge against zombies for some reason. The angry man also appears in the below trailer, which serves to describe what Dead Island Retro Revenge is, in addition to providing some (quite scant) narrative context. Exacting revenge on someone implies that a knowingly bad deed was committed, but I doubt zombies are sentient enough to do anything knowingly. Based on that, and the general attitude of the angry man in the trailer, I can only guess that he's mad. Still, it doesn't matter how mad he is if he's simply a vehicle for killing more zombie…
- Dead Island Definitive Collection - Now available for pre-purchase with loyalty discount! - 9 May 2016
Dead Island Definitive Collection is now available for pre-purchase on Steam. The Definitive Collection includes three games: Dead Island Definitive Edition, Dead Island Riptide Definitive Edition, and the 16-bit styled bonus game Dead Island Retro Revenge. The Definitive Editions are also available for pre-purchase individually, and they bring the original games to an upgraded version of the engine with new textures and lighting effects, and tweaks for UI consistency between Dead Island and Riptide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOdA5VJmgs0 Bundle and loyalty discounts At the base price you get Dead Island Retro Revenge essentially for free through a bundle discount on the Definitive Collection bundle. As a Steam owner of either the original Dead Island, Dead Island Riptide, or both titles, you’ll also automatically receive a loyalty discount of up to 85% off the respective Definitiv…
- Weekend Deal - Dead Island Games up to 80% Off - 5 May 2016
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- Dead Island Definitive Edition trailer shows prettier zombie slaying - 4 May 2016
The Dead Island series is getting the remaster treatment later this month, bundling both the original game and its follow-up, Riptide . While the improvements are likely to please console owners more so than PC users, there are some neat if small graphical improvements coming to our platform as well. These include "luscious improved graphics and game models" and "photorealistic lighting with physically based shading." Whether it'll serve to make an otherwise middling zombie slayer into something worth revisiting is yet to be seen, but there's a new trailer embedded below which might convince you either way. The bundle will also come with Dead Island: Retro Revenge, a 2D beat-em-up with a 16-bit pixel aesthetic. The package will release May 31, and might be worth a look if you're still unaccountably optimistic about Dead Island 2 ever getting a release.
- Dead Island & Riptide Remastered In Definitive Editions - 3 March 2016
Zombie-slaying FPS-RPG Dead Island and its 2013 expandalone Dead Island Riptide are being “remastered” in Definitive Editions – more relatively-recent games coming our way again with a new swing in their step after being prettied up for the latest consoles. Too bad someone already took the name Deathinitive Edition , huh? Out of curiosity, I went back to see what RPS said in 2011 when Dead Island was re-announced with That Trailer . I’m almost disappointed by John’s restraint. I was hoping someone would’ve declared it “The Citizen Kane of Game Trailers” and I’d get to be gittish to them tomorrow. Curses. Not even “The Old Yeller of Game Trailers”! …
- A new Dead Island game may be on the way - 12 February 2016
If the Australian Government's videogame classifiers have it right, we may soon be hearing about yet another installment of Dead Island-branded zombie-splattering good times. The classification site recently listed a new game called Dead Island Retro Revenge , which it slapped with an M rating for bloody violence and online interactivity. Australia's game rating site doesn't serve up quite the same kind of joyously juicy details as our ESRB , but it does indicate that the game is being published by Koch Media, the parent company of Deep Silver, and that it's being developed by Empty Clip Studios . Empty Clip created the Rapid Fire Engine used in Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine , did an end-to-end port of Bit.Trip Core, and also developed the 2012 indie hit Symphony. Last summer the studio announced that it had begun work on a sequel to Symphony entitled Symphony Worlds , which is expected…
- Weekend Deal - Dead Island Franchise, 80% Off - 17 September 2015
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- Shambling: Yager Taken Off Dead Island 2 - 15 July 2015
Polish studio Techland may have created open-world zombie-smashing FPS-RPG Dead Island , but publishers Deep Silver got the rights. That’s how come Deep Silver went on to have folk make daft things like the MOBA-y Dead Island: Epidemic and baffling drek Escape Island while Techland went on to make another open-world zombie-smashing FPS-RPG in Dying Light . Straight-up sequel Dead Island 2 was in the works at Spec Ops: The Line devs Yager, and this one actually looked promising. But its future is now looking as safe as a lecherous, wisecracking wino in a zombie flick, as Deep Silver have announced Yager are off the game. …
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- Daily Deal - Dead Island, 75% Off - 14 March 2015
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- A Dead Island [Linux] Update has been released - 9 February 2015
Patch notes : - fixed looting issue - fixed bug with reparing a weapon (up to 100%) - fullscreen is enabled by deafult - fixed gamma settings - reduced executable file size
- No, Please No, Not Another Game Player Has Baby Article - 14 December 2014
Here is my dilemma. It s nice, I think, to approach supporter posts with a desire to be more personal, more intimate, to shine the light on ourselves a little more brightly. Or to be even more self-indulgent than ever, if you d prefer to think of it that way. So when considering what to write about in my weekly supporter column, I like to think about what s going on in my life, pick a lens to look through. Except, four weeks ago my first son was born, and good grief, who wants to hear about that ? Oh my goodness, how many more games-journalists-becoming-parents can the internet cope with? And who is it for? People without kids are likely far less interested to read about an experience they don t relate to. People who don t want kids and never intend to have them can feel marginalised, excluded. People who want kids and haven t yet, or those who want them and cannot have them, can find t…
- Escape Dead Island coming next week; here's a launch trailer - 15 November 2014
The best thing about Dead Island is its co-op, so I'm a little curious about why it's getting a single-player spinoff in the form of Escape Dead Island. It's a third-person action/stealth game set in the Dead Island universe, and it's coming to PC (and last-gen consoles), blimey, next week. The above trailer offers a glimpse of what we're in for, which as it turns out is a cel-shaded game about mystery and battering zombie brains in, with psychological am-I-going-crazy bits thrown in too. Publishers Deep Silver are calling the game "a survival mystery, where you follow the story of Cliff Calo as he attempts to uncover the truth about the zombie virus". You're a journalist, see, and uncovering the truth about a zombie virus sounds like something a journalist might want to do. Escape Dead Island is being developed by War of the Roses/Lead and Gold developers Fatshark, rather than series c…
- Now Available on Linux and SteamOS - Dead Island GOTY - 24 October 2014
Dead Island: Game of the Year Edition is Now Available on Linux and SteamOS! Terror. Violence. Madness. Bedlam. A holiday paradise gone mad. A tropical island turns into total chaos after a mysterious zombie outbreak. Cut off from the rest of the world, the player’s only chance to survive is to fight to the death and find a way to escape from the island.
- Pre-Purchase Now - Escape Dead Island, 15% off! - 24 October 2014
Escape Dead Island is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam and is 15% off until November 3rd at 10AM Pacific! Additionally, pre-purchase before release date and you'll receive guaranteed access to the upcoming Dead Island 2 Beta event! Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.
