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Tequila Works Offer Teaser and Details on Deadlight

Video game developer Tequila Works have offered a number of new details on their upcoming zombie and survival game Deadlight, which also got a teaser showing potential players what they can expect from the title. The main character of the game is Randall Wayne, apparently the only man who has managed to survive a ra...

27 January 2012
13:01 GMT

Resident Evil 6 Delivers ‘Ultimate Horror Entertainment’, Gets New Details

After presenting Resident Evil 6 to the world last week, Capcom has now arrived with some fresh details about the game, promising that it will deliver “ultimate horror entertainment.” The Resident Evil series has been going into all sorts of directions in recent years, with more action-oriented installme...

23 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Incoming 2012: Resident Evil – Revelations

What we know:Resident Evil fans are still waiting for a full new console game in the franchise but the developers at Capcom have decided that the Nintendo 3DS handheld is compelling enough to get a full game for itself.Revelations will take place right between the fourth and fifth game in the series and will follow J...

17 January 2012
18:41 GMT

Dead Island Gets Ryder White Single-Player DLC

Deep Silver and Techland have confirmed that their surprisingly popular Dead Island zombie game will receive a new piece of downloadable content called Ryder White, which delivers a new single-player adventure. Dead Island didn’t have the best of launches last year, with lots of bugs and issues plaguing the zo...

17 January 2012
12:31 GMT

Wipeout 2048 for the Vita Had a Special Zombie Mode

Wipeout 2048, the futuristic racing game for the PlayStation Vita coming from Sony Liverpool, was originally scheduled to have a variety of unique modes besides its regular ones, including a very special Zombie one. The Wipeout series has delivered a lot of great racing experiences in the past, thanks to its special...

4 January 2012
15:31 GMT

Valve Offers Dialog Talk at GDC 2012

Video game developer and publisher Valve has announced that it will be holding a programming oriented talk at the upcoming Games Developers Conference 2012, which will take place from March 5 to 9 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.The conference from Valve will be headlined by Elan Ruskin and will be...

30 December 2011
02:24 GMT

All Zombies Must Die Out This Week on PS3 and Xbox 360

In case you’re looking for something to fill the time before you get ready for the New Year, the doublesix studio has got you covered, as the indie team will be releasing their All Zombies Must Die! title onto the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 later this week.While zombie games are getting a bit bland these days, ...

27 December 2011
15:21 GMT

Dead Island Ships 3 Million Units, Has a Great Holiday Season

Dead Island, the first person, role playing zombie shooter, has shipped over 3 million units since its release back in September, with publisher Deep Silver confirming that the title has had a great holiday season in which plenty of new units were sold.Dead Island impressed originally with its touching trailer, but o...

23 December 2011
05:08 GMT

Yakuza: Dead Souls Trailer Teaches You How to Kill Zombies

While we’re pretty sure that most gamers know how to take out zombies, given their extreme popularity in a variety of titles released nowadays, Sega has put up a new trailer for its upcoming Yakuza: Dead Souls that shows off the myriad of ways to kill the undead. The Yakuza series is extremely popular in its n...

16 December 2011
02:32 GMT

Resident Evil 6 Takes Place in China

The resume of Chinese voice actress Wendy Mok has shown that she is playing the role of a Chinese villager who turns into a zombie at one point in Resident Evil 6, after playing a similar role in the already launched Dead Island.The resume has been spotted by The Silent Chief and is further proof that Capcom is alrea...

2 December 2011
14:01 GMT

Resident Evil 6 Mentioned in Voice Actor Resume

An official announcement for Resident Evil 6 is now probably closer than ever after Siliconera managed to catch a reference to the game in the resume of yet another voice actor that has a history of working with developer and publisher Capcom.Another actor was caught earlier during the year with Resident Evil 6 menti...

29 November 2011
13:21 GMT

Techland Trademarks Dead World, Possible Dead Island Sequel

The developers at Techland who have launched the surprising Dead Island zombie powered action game earlier this year have registered a trademark in the United States for a product called Dead World, which might very well be a sequel that is already being worked on.A representative from Techland refused to comment on ...

4 November 2011
16:11 GMT

Dead Island (PC)

Zombies have become cool again lately, flooding the entertainment space with high profile products like World War Z, which is both a comic book and, soon, a movie, and the Walking Dead, one of the most appreciated television series on AMC. Both of these are nuanced looks at the possibility of a zombie apocalypse whic...

11 October 2011
07:38 GMT

Dead Island diary: Fighting Zombies Can Bankrupt a Poor Survivor

How much would you pay to make sure that you will be able to use again that nice little baseball bat with attached nails instead of seeing it dropped on the ground, ignored until the end of the game?This is a real and very important question in Dead Island, where the weapons that a player uses to battle the zombie me...

3 October 2011
18:31 GMT

Dead Island Diary: End of the World Worries

It's the end of the world for those who were unfortunate enough to be trapped on Banio when the zombie outbreak began but for many of the secondary characters a player meets in Dead Island seem to be unable to grasp the trouble they are in and what they need to do to get out.Dead Island is an open world horror a...

28 September 2011
18:01 GMT

Lionsgate Options Film Rights for Dead Island

Lionsgate, one of the leading companies when it comes to filmed entertainment, has announced that it has optioned the rights for a movie based on the Dead Island video game, which has been created by Techland and published by Deep Silver.Joe Drake, who is the co-Chief Operations Officer and the president of the Motio...

28 September 2011
15:01 GMT

Dead Island Diary: Let's Get Physical, Physical

I am one big, husky man, immune to the devastating virus (I assume, the game has not made it clear how zombification spreads) that has affected the island, ready to go out and get myself a machine gun, a shotgun or something capable of spreading lead among the undead in order to retake this resort and find a way to ...

27 September 2011
18:41 GMT

Yakuza Series Will Not Move to the Xbox 360

The Yakuza series has been so far exclusive to the PlayStation 3 home gaming console from Sony and the creator of the concepts says that it's highly unlikely that it will make the move to the Xbox 360 from Microsoft. Toshihiro Nagoshi, who is the original creator of the franchise, has told Eurogamer that, &ld...

25 August 2011
16:31 GMT

Dead Island Gets Official Novel from Mark Morris

Well-known publishing house Bantam has announced that it is going to publish a novel based around the Dead Island video game from developer Techland and publisher Deep Silver, set to be launched at the same time as the game project. The book will come in paperback format and will sell for 6.99 British Pounds in th...

28 July 2011
10:30 GMT

Microsoft Is Aggressive About Online Games on the Xbox 360

We recently found out that one of the original creators of World of Warcraft was working on a zombie-based title, which would start as an action adventure experience only to then morph into a cooperative online game, and a lot of gamers were surprised to see that it would only be delivered on the Xbox Live Arcade ser...

9 February 2011
13:31 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Diary - Going Back to Killing Zombies

While being a games reviewer allows me to experience some of the newest titles out there, this also means that I don't really have enough time to get to know some of my favorites.That's why, as you no doubt know if you follow our EndWeekGame pieces, I've been going back to quite a few favorites of mine...

10 January 2011
09:55 GMT

New Zombie Yakuza Comes on March 17, 2011 in Japan

SEGA, via the Japanese video gaming magazine Famitsu, has announced that Ryu ga Gotoku Of The End, which can be literally translated as “Like a Dragon at the End,” will be released on the Japanese market on March 17 of next year.The video game, which was officially announced early during the fall of this ...

16 December 2010
17:31 GMT

Zombie Alien Viruses May Underlie Life on Earth

A new twist in an established theory argues that all life on Earth may have developed from the remains of dead alien viruses, that arrived here on comets and other space impactors. This is a new form to the old idea of panspermia, which says that life did not originally develop here. Some experts now believe that vir...

10 November 2010
08:35 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Mode Gets Surprising Details

Those that don't want their Call of Duty: Black Ops experience spoiled should shield their eyes, as massive and surprising details about the game's Zombies mode have just hit the web, thanks to a leaked video. According to a brand new video uploaded to YouTube, and promptly taken down by Activision, the ...

1 November 2010
04:51 GMT

Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare Pack Dated, Detailed

Rockstar's critically acclaimed Red Dead Redemption will soon get its newest downloadable content pack, in the form of the Undead Nightmare DLC, which will be available at the end of the month, according to the company's newest announcement. Red Dead Redemption was one of the surprise hits of the year, u...

18 October 2010
03:21 GMT

Quick Look: Dead Rising 2

Dead Rising 2, the sequel to 2006's most surprising title, has now been officially revealed, and wants to deliver a more fleshed out experience, with a whole new hero, a new cast, a new location, but with all the zombie-killing fun that made the original so popular.This time, war photographer Frank West has been...

9 October 2010
10:01 GMT

Red Dead Redemption's Undead Nightmare DLC Gets Screenshots and Trailer

Red Dead Redemption was by far one of the most surprising titles of the year, and will soon see its action expanded thanks to a brand new DLC pack entitled Undead Nightmare and featuring one of the major trends in video gaming today, zombies. Rockstar managed to strike gold with Red Dead Redemption, thanks to the ...

6 October 2010
04:08 GMT

Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies Mode Officially Confirmed

Call of Duty: Black Ops, one of the biggest video games to appear at the end of the year, will officially feature a co-operative multiplayer mode with zombies in it, the same that was featured on Treyarch's previous Call of Duty: World at War title.The co-op mode was rumored for quite some time, but not until re...

30 September 2010
03:45 GMT

Starcraft II – When the Zerg Turn into Zombies

I've talked about how Blizzard was very adept at taking familiar elements from franchises the developers probably love and then integrate them seamlessly in Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty. Another good example is the zombie like missions in the single player campaign, which tasks the player with surviving at nig...

2 August 2010
20:01 GMT

Red Dead Redemption Update Eliminates Cheaters

Red Dead Redemption was the best sold video game in both May and June, according to the figures offered for the North American market by the NPD Group. And it seems that the developers at Rockstar and the publishers at Take Two are very keen to extend the live of their Western based open world game by both unleashing...

26 July 2010
05:33 GMT

Dead Rising 2 Has Received Classification in Australia

Dead Rising 2 was surprisingly accepted by the Australian Classification board without any censorship. The title received an MA15+ rating, the highest age rating permitted for games in Australia. This was unlikely, given the fact that Valve's zombie shooter, Left 4 Dead 2, was initially refused classification by...

5 July 2010
15:21 GMT

Dead Rising 2 Delayed by Capcom

Capcom has announced that Dead Rising 2's release has been delayed. The game was supposed to arrive on August 31 in North America and September 3 in Europe. The new launch dates are September 28 for North America and August 1 for Europe. Capcom gave no reason for the delay, but more information is bound to surfa...

28 June 2010
08:01 GMT

The Grinder Set to Go Multiplatform

High Voltage has announced that its upcoming The Grinder is set to arrive on the PC, the Xbox 360 from Microsoft and the PlayStation 3 from Sony in addition to the Nintendo Wii, for which its was already confirmed. The game was initially announced when High Voltage was constituted as a company and should have arrived...

9 February 2010
02:55 GMT

You Could Have Fought Zombies and Aliens in Modern Warfare 2

When Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was still doing push-ups and washing latrines with its toothbrush back in boot camp, the COs of the game had some very different ideas for the first-class private. While the young soldier was beefing up to become the greatest entertainment release in history, the developers had a c...

20 November 2009
03:37 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Gets Scavenger Mode

Left 4 Dead 2 was originally criticized for the fact that it would be a sequel designed by Valve so that it could extract more money from fans while offering no real new content.Of course, since the videogame was first announced, Valve has talked to the player community for the first Left 4 Dead and explained what it...

9 October 2009
13:01 GMT

Zombies Coming to Star Wars Galaxies

Sony is announcing that its old MMO, Star Wars Galaxy, might be getting some new blood via an update that is set to introduce a series of game quests where players need to face a horde of Stormtrooper zombies. The move is designed to promote an upcoming Star Wars-themed book, called Death Troopers, that is set to arr...

21 September 2009
15:01 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Is a Single Statement, Gets New Enemies

Valve is getting ready to release Left 4 Dead 2 in November and the development team at the company is busy talking about how this new release is different from the first game in the series, which managed to be a surprise hit last year. The emphasis is allaying the fears of gamers who might be thinking that they are ...

8 September 2009
06:09 GMT

Resident Evil 5 Might Get More DLC

It seems that Resident Evil 5, the zombie shooter from Capcom, could be on its way to getting more content via DLC packs. The game was released back in March and was well received by gamers but the campaign, even if highly replayable, was pretty short and the multiplayer modes rather limited.Capcom is probably thinki...

7 September 2009
12:32 GMT

How to Survive a Zombie Attack

As unbelievable as it may seem, some scientists actually took time of their busy schedules to model with mathematical rigor the possibility of a zombie attack occurring, and also discovering possible ways to survive it. The authors of a new study on this issue, which was published in a book on infectious diseases, sa...

15 August 2009
05:49 GMT

Fungus Learns to Control Ants Through 'Zombification'

Naturalists and biologists were amazed at the discovery of one of the most dangerous, invasive and subversive species of fungus ever known to man, which displays a remarkable activity of ensuring its survival. It can take control of carpenter ants' brains, and turns them into zombies, which are then manipulating...

12 August 2009
10:43 GMT

Red Band Trailer for ‘Zombieland’ Is Out

In a post-Apocalyptic America, people do whatever they can to survive: keep moving, stay out of the way of all zombies, avoid getting infected by them and, of course, make inappropriate jokes at the most inappropriate times. “Zombieland,” a Ruben Fleischer-directed zombie comedy, promises to deliver amazi...

7 August 2009
11:17 GMT

Left 4 Dead Gets New Campaign, Crash Course, This September

There has been a huge amount of controversy around Valve's Left 4 Dead franchise ever since the announcement of Left 4 Dead 2 at this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo. Seeing as how not even a year has passed since the release of the first title, many players felt betrayed and even started a boycott gro...

5 August 2009
04:03 GMT

Resident Evil 5 for PC Gets Release Date and System Requirements

Capcom's Resident Evil franchise is one of the most popular and best-selling series of titles for the Japanese company. With the arrival of the first game many years ago, fans were enticed by the survival horror genre that the franchise had created and loyally bought anything related to it. Even though it didn&...

28 July 2009
02:42 GMT

Cricket Bat Appears in Left 4 Dead 2

Ever since the surprise announcement that Valve was working on a sequel to Left 4 Dead, which is set to ship later in 2009, the developer has let out a trickle of news related to the title, showing players the improvements that would be implemented as compared with the first game in the series.It's rather unusua...

9 July 2009
18:21 GMT

Left 4 Dead 1 Will Get a Lot of Content, Promises Valve's Gabe Newell

Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its online features. However, when Valve, the creator of the game, announced that Left 4 Dead 2 would be released, just one year after its predecessor, these fans weren't very happy. We reported the fact that they had...

12 June 2009
03:19 GMT

Left 4 Dead 2 Gets Boycotted by Steam Users

Left 4 Dead was one of last year's biggest games, gaining a huge amount of fans thanks to its great gameplay, impressive mechanics and top-notch multiplayer. The fact that it was released by Valve, which is a company that sits very close to the community, made it even more popular. But as E3 ended last week, th...

9 June 2009
03:21 GMT

Meet the Survivors of Left 4 Dead 2

Left 4 Dead was one of the biggest new games of last year, introducing a fresh and interesting twist to the whole action survival genre by putting four characters in front of a seemingly never-ending horde of zombies in different cliché locations, like a farm, an abandoned airport or a hospital.Its four main c...

8 June 2009
03:31 GMT

E3: Left 4 Dead 2 Announced, Brings New Melee Options

Valve is a company that has gotten us used to seeing a game each year. It really broke the mold with The Orange Box in 2007 when it released three new titles, but in 2008, Left 4 Dead was the main project at the developer and publisher of video games. Now, a lot of people speculated that Half Life 2: Episode 3 would...

2 June 2009
03:20 GMT

Dead Rising 2 Won't Appear at E3 Due to Swine Flu

The swine flu is all over the news, affecting quite a lot of countries and leaving them quarantined. But, even though the E3 conference is still taking place, as its organizer, the ESA, isn't afraid of it, it seems that developers and publishers are. Capcom has recently issued a statement, through the voice of ...

22 May 2009
14:21 GMT

PC Sales Charts – Even More Zombie Editions

The PC platform is declared doomed at the beginning of every year by some analysts who say that this is the year when the PC will finally die and be overtaken by consoles. But luckily the old platform keeps on fighting and it still making a hefty profit for companies that choose to bring their games onto it. As alwa...

20 May 2009
11:01 GMT


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