Deep Silver

Deep Silver has confirmed that it has already shipped a million copies of its open-world zombie game in North America alone, and expects to have shipped double that worldwide before the week is out.

MCV reports that publisher Deep Silver has chosen to delay the European release of Team Persona's erotic thriller Catherine until Q1 2012. No reason is given for the delay, though it appears a safe bet that Deep Silver has opted against putting the quirky Atlus puzzler up against all the other Q4 big hitters, which seems a sensible decision.

When Dead Island was released in North America on Tuesday, Steam players found that they had downloaded an Xbox 360 development build instead of the final product. Deep Silver has already apologised to those affected, and has now said: "Deep Silver plans to announce a 'make up' to North American fans who were affected by the day one PC issues. Stay tuned in the coming days for those details as internal discussions are ongoing." The publisher has also warned that the day-one patch, which fixes 37 issues with the game, may wipe save files. "We have a solution to help regain some quest progress," it said. "When the game opens, select New Game, select the same character as you were using before, and then there will be an option for Chapter Select which will allow the player to jump to the last chapter they were playing in."

The publisher had somehow uploaded a development build of its zombie FPS instead of the final version, leaving many North American players with a less-than-satisfactory experience. Deep Silver has since confirmed to Rock Paper Shotgun that the correct build will be released "during the day."

Deep Silver has sent out an extensive list of fixes that comprise the day-one patch for Dead Island, the zombie shooter which is released today in North America and on Friday in Europe. Destructoid has the full list, which contains the likes of "fixed enemy reaction to fire," "fixed the infinite respawning of shooting enemies," and "fixed bug causing all inventory to disappear."

Only days ago Atlus told Joystiq it had "no plans at this time" to release Team Persona's HD console debut, erotic thriller Catherine, in Europe. Now Deep Silver has announced it is to publish the game across Europe later this year. Atlus used almost exactly the same line back in February, telling Beefjack it had "no plans for a North American release at this time." It then confirmed its US release four days later. Deep Silver's Klemens Kundratitz described Catherine as "something new, fresh and exciting; unlike anything else in the gaming world – a unique mixture of genres."