Dead Island: Epidemic Now Taking Closed Beta Applications
Deep Silver has announced that their ZOMBA (Zombie Online Multiplayer Battle Arena), Dead Island: Epidemic, is now accepting registrations for the Closed Beta. Epidemic will pit three teams of players against one another in an epic fight for survival. Signing up for the closed beta will pay off. All newly registered players will be able to join the 30,000 Alpha testers even before the official Clo...
Dead Island and Toy Soldiers: Cold War added to Games with Gold
This month there are two additions to the Australian Games with Gold program on Xbox 360 courtesy of Microsoft – Dead Island and Toy Soldiers: Cold War. The former will be free from now until the 16th (RRP $29.95) and the latter will be free from the 16th to the 28th (RRP $14.95). Dead Island‘s game designer Maciej Binkowski was recently honored for his contributions to the horror genr...
“Dead Island” Recognized For Its Contribution To The Development Of The Horror Genre
“Dead Island” is an action/horror game that takes place on a tropical island though that particular island has been overrun with zombies, you play as one of the four main characters who must travel throughout the entire island while trying not to get killed in the hopes that you’ll find a way off of the damn rock and back to civilisation, though…is it just the island that h...
Hellraid Release Pushed Back to 2014
Originally planned to release this year, Hellraid will unfortunately not be making its deadline. Techland, the creators of the Dead Island series, have sent out a press release detailing the “tough decision” they made to push the game back for a 2014 release instead. The reasons for this delay in Hellraid? To make the game better with new ideas and redesigns based on playtesting from f...
Dying Light gets a couple Halloween screenshots
Considering Halloween is about forty-eight hours from now it only makes sense that any developer working on producing a horror game would take advantage of the spooky atmosphere to try and put out some Halloween themed screenshots and it looks like Warner Bros. and Techland have decided to do just that. As you can see above, two new images of the game have been released. As for the game itself, Dy...
Dying Light First-Hand Impressions
Prior to the EB Games Expo 2013, Warner Bros. invited members of the media to get a closer, more intimate look at their showcase of titles coming out in the next year, with developers from Techland, WB Games Montreal (check out our hands-on with Batman: Arkham Origins) and Avalanche Studios present. One of the more anticipated games on show was Dying Light, created by the former. Before being made...
Hellraid ‘Edyn’s Escape’ interactive trailer released
To help promote their upcoming game, Techland has released a unique interactive trailer for Hellraid. I say it is interactive because it is something of a choose your own adventure trailer. As you watch the video below, you will be given various choices to make. Some decisions will reveal bits of concept art, help you move forward in helping Edyn Escape, or end in a horrible death. If you manage t...