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Deep Silver’s announced it’ll release the Bloodbath Arena DLC for Dead Island on November 22. Previously due in late September, the pack comes with single-player and multiplayer “Horde-style challenges in four different arenas,” with XP carried over from the DLC into the campaign. The new content will come with a new weapon to boot, the Brain Wave Bomb.

It’ll arrive on PS3, 360 and PC.

Deep Silver has announced Dead Island will be patched this week, starting first with the PS3 on Wednesday, November 9 and the Xbox 360 version seeing and update the following day. The fixes, listed below the break, are already available for the PC version. Huzzah! Now we can get back to killing more zombies. Blasted things. Thanks, Eurogamer.

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Siliconera spotted a US trademark filing by TechLand for something called Dead World.

The Trademark is, of course, highly suggestive of a sequel to the first person horror RPG Dead Island, but TechLand has refused to comment.

Thanks, Eurogamer.

Deep Silver has refused to commit to a release date for the console version of the latest PC patch, but promised to hurry.

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The Bloodbath Arena DLC got delayed so Techland could continue work patching up the original game. Today we’re getting a look at what they’ve been working on. More »

Techland recently opted to delay their upcoming downloadable content package for Dead Island, but never told us when it was delayed to. More »

Deep Silver and Techland have announced Dead Island’s Bloodbath Arena DLC has been delayed.

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Lionsgate has optioned the rights to make a movie inspired by Dead Island’s “haunting, artful trailer.”

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It’s like the Internet developed the ability to vomit, and I’m on mop duty. You may need to set aside some time for this.

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Zombie-packed Dead Island has remained at the top of the UK charts this week, its been announced this morning.

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Deep Silver has said Techland’s priority at the moment is fixing issues in Dead Island, which mean the planned DLC packs for the game may see a delay.

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Deep Silver’s announced overnight in the US via the medium of press release that its shipped 1 million units of Dead Island in the country. The publisher now expects to hit 2 million units shipped worldwide by the end of the week. The Techland, not without its controversies after release last week, went to the the top of the UK charts earlier this week.

Thanks, IGN.

Modders have started releasing fixes and tweaks to Dead Island on PC. The list is rather large, but among some of the fixed listed on the Steam forum are: change field of view, the ability to disable motion blur, weapons blur, bloom, dust, and desaturate, and many other modifications and the ability to vsync which will help screen tearing issues. There’s also a few fun mods available as well. The PC Version of Dead Island, which was released last week, as seen issues with the PC version, most notably, the developers’ code being accidentally released on Steam instead of the retail version. Techland released a patch for the game, but players still reported bugs and problems with the multiplayer servers. Thanks, Kotaku.

Following last week’s controversial events surrounding the discovery of leftover code in the PC version of Dead Island regarding a skill called Feminist Whore, Techland has told VG247 its inclusion just merely a “bad joke” whilst the company was in crunch for the survival horror.

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Safe to say Christmas season has begun.

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Convention season has taken its toll. With TGS looming, we’ve lost Pat. He is, as you all know, dead. Or without Internet. We, however, must soldier on. Here’s the week’s biggest stories and what they all mean.

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A bit of legacy code in a build which was never meant to be released has lifted the lid on gaming’s undercurrent of sexism.

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Deep Silver has announced a late September release for Dead Island’s Bloodbath Arena DLC. Those who purchased the Special Edition of the game should already have a code for the content to enter upon release. Bloodbath Arena contains a single-player and multiplayer “Horde-style challenges in four different arenas,” and experience points gained through the DLC will carry over the main campaign mode. Leaderboards will be available in the DLC pack as well as a new weapon called the “brain wave bomb.”

Dead Island is out in the UK tomorrow. Thanks, VoodooExtreme.

Oh boy. Hello opened can. I would like you to meet this pile of worms I am trying to shove inside of you.

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A patch released earlier today for the Steam version of Dead Island will wipe out any progress made so far.

TechLand has added a chapter select function to try and compensate for the loss of your data, and DailyDead has word Deep Silver intends some kind of compensation package for those affected.

The patch’s purpose was to correct the accidental release of an elderly development build instead of the finished game.