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Dead Island

Who can forget the award winning game trailer for Dead Island? The memorable trailer spread like a zombie infestation throughout entertainment media (gaming and film). Today Lionsgate has announced it has picked up the rights for a feature film adaptation of Deep Silver’s Dead Island game. The movie will be aiming for the same engagement that the Dead Island trailer fueled with emotion.

“Like the hundreds of journalists and millions of fans who were so passionate and vocal about the Dead Island trailer, we too were awestruck.”  stated Lionsgate’s co-COO and Motion Picture Group President Joe Drake, “This is exactly the type of property we’re looking to adapt at Lionsgate – it’s sophisticated, edgy, and a true elevation of a genre that we know and love.  It also has built in brand recognition around the world, and franchise potential.”

For details on the producers involved, read the complete press release below. Dead Island is currently available for the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. Keep a lookout for more details on the upcoming film, books and graphic novels extending the Dead Island story at www.deadisland.com.

Read the full press release here.

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Dead Island Co-Op trailer

Today Deep Silver and game developer Techland have announced that Dead Island has gone gold. “Gone gold” means that the production for the game’s launch is complete and millions of zombies are now being replicated for the masses. The North America launch date is locked for September 6, 2011. Dead Island is the zombie survival horror FPS that gamers have been eagerly awaiting since the teaser trailer for the game first hit. A new co-op gameplay trailer has been released, showing how you and your buddies can take on the hordes of undead. Watch it below!

Pre-order Dead Island for the PlayStation 3Xbox 360 and PC. Catch up on the latest on Dead Island at the official website, www.deadislandgame.com. See more game trailers here on the official Dead Island YouTube page.

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Dead Island (PlayStation Home)

Pretty soon, your PlayStation Home getaway will be thriving with the undead. The PS3′s virtual space will be filled with zombies and more from the anticipated game, Dead Island. Among the PlayStation Home distractions from the undead is a PlayStation Home co-op mini-game (which will unlock an in-game Dead Island exclusive “Exploding Meat” weapon), taking snapshots with zombies, completing a zombie survey (which unlocks 4 free PlayStation Home rewards) and more.

Dead Island box art - PS3Here is what Deep Silver had to say on the exclusive Dead Island PS3 items, which can only be obtained by participating in the PlayStation Home events:
“Certain items in the PlayStation 3 system version of the Dead Island will only be obtained through this PlayStation Home event. Each week will introduce more levels and unlockable content including a premium PlayStation Home reward “Exploding Zombie Outfit” for players that pre-order Dead Island directly from Home’s Central Plaza and the aforementioned “Exploding Meat”, a powerful weapon for use in Dead Island that can only be acquired by surviving the PlayStation Home onslaught.”

A specific date on the Dead Island activities in PlayStation Home was not announced, but watch for it before the game’s release in September. See several screenshots of the Dead Island environments in PlayStation Home below, or here in fullscreen. Pre-order Dead Island for the PlayStation 3 here (or via PlayStation home when it launches!).

 

Source – Deep Silver

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Dead Island screenshot

Deep Silver, the publishers of the upcoming zombie survival game Dead Island, will be hosting a unique panel at Comic Con next week. The panel, titled “The Science of Zombies,” will be happening on July 22nd in Room 8 of the San Diego Convention Center (SDCC). Zombie experts, neuroscientists, a professor of psychiatry, and the writer of Dead Island will be engaging the audience will all kind of zombie lore and facts on the brain. If you are attending Comic Con 2011, this is a panel you don’t want to miss.

Here are the details from Deep Silver:

The panel features the creative talent behind the acclaimed and highly anticipated Dead Island™ (www.deadisland.com) game, the world’s foremost zombie enthusiasts, esteemed interactive entertainment industry journalists and the nation’s leading medical professionals in the field of brain research and brain disease. Scheduled participants include:

Max Brooks, universal zombie expert and author of The Zombie Survival GuideWorld War Z and The Zombie Survival Guide: Recorded Attacks

Haris Orkin
, writer of the anticipated video game, Dead Island

Steve Schlozman, M.D., author of The Zombie Autopsies and assistant professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Bradley Voytek, Ph.D., Post-doctoral Fellow: Neuroscience, University of California, San Francisco

Andrew Groen, freelance journalist and editor of GamePro Magazine’s “Real Science” column

Bruce Geryk, M.D.,  Resident Physician, Department of Neurosurgery, University of North Carolina Hospitals

Dead Island will be available for the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC on September 6, 2011 in North America. For more details on Dead Island, visit  www.deadisland.com.

Source – Deep Silver

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Dead Island Special Edition

More blood, more experience, more weapons, more cover art! Deep Silver is offering a few perks for pre-orders of their upcoming first-person survival horror game, Dead Island. GameStop has the exclusive deal on the free Bloodbath Arena downloadable content ($10 value), the first DLC to be available for Dead Island shortly after launch. Pre-order here for the Xbox 360, here for PS3 or here for PC for the upgrade to the Dead Island Special Edition.

Details on the Dead Island Special Edition from Deep Silver:
“The Bloodbath Arena pack features single and multiplayer challenges in four different arenas. It’s a pure fight for survival when wave after wave of deadly zombie attacks, one more gruesome than the next! Characters can also gain additional experience points and items and bring them over to their single or multiplayer campaigns. What’s more, players can  show off their skills in zombie fighting via the Bloodbath Arena’s Leaderboards. Finally, Bloodbath Arena includes a new exclusive weapon, the brain wave bomb, to ensure some highly explosive combat experiences.  The Bloodbath Arena DLC package will be available for download shortly after launch.

In addition to the Bloodbath Arena DLC, the Dead Island Special Edition will sport an exclusive piece of cover art and the blueprint for a special weapon, called the “Ripper”: A destructive combination of a baseball bat and a buzz saw that leaves attacking zombies battered.”

Pre-order to get the Dead Island Special Edition upgrade, while supplies last. See more on Dead Island at www.deadisland.com.

Source – Deep Silver

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