Dead Island

A post on Dead Island's Facebook page reveals that the game's first DLC expansion, Bloodbath Arena, has been delayed because developer Techland is still busy with the game itself. More >

Film studio Lionsgate has optioned the rights to create a movie based on Deep Silver's zombie action RPG Dead Island, with the game’s award-winning announcement trailer set to "serve as its primary creative inspiration”. More >

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.

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."

Axis Animation's astonishing Dead Island announcement trailer has won gold in the Internet Film category at 2011's Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The trailer was one of 41 films shortlisted from a list of hundreds. "We are overwhelmed to see the Dead Island trailer pick up an award at an event as prestigious as the Cannes Lions" said Axis executive producer, Richard Scott. "It goes to prove that the dedication shown by director Stuart Aitken and all of the Axis team has really paid off. I also want to give great credit to all the Deep Silver team because without their daring strategy and belief in what we could do, this project could have been so different."