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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.

Safe to say Christmas season has begun.

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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.

Deep Silver has released a day-one patch for Techland’s Dead Island which promises to fix a range of issues with the game, and has said it plans to release a correct version of the game on Steam “ASAP”.

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Various reports state that the PC version of Dead Island released today in the US is having a few issues, most notably on Steam, where apparently a dev build of the Xbox 360 version was released on the service by accident.

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A few of the detracting niggles dragging down Dead Island’s review scores are likely to see correction in a launch-day patch.

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BradyGames to launch a strategy app on iOS devices for Dead Island when it releases this week. The app will feature a map of the games location to help get around it in the game, as well as help pinpoint collectable items in the game, including ID cards, Banoi Herald excerpts and investigation tapes. The game’s soundtrack will also appear on the app.

It’ll release tomorrow for $2.99. Hit up the reviews for it so far GameGuru.

Online reviews have started popping up for Dead Island ahead of its release this week. From what we’ve found, it seems to be scoring well so far, although Eurogamer’s gone with a six. Get a round-up of the latest pieces below. If you have a link to add, drop them in the comments. Dead Island releases in the US tomorrow and in the UK on Friday for PS3, 360 and PC.

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If you just can’t wait a few more days to compulsively collect weapons and then run screaming from the shuffling hordes, this massive 45 minute look at Dead Island may tide you over.

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US citizens waiting on Tuesday’s release of zombie shooter RPG de riguer Dead Island need wait no more.

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Deep Silver has released the launch trailer for Dead Island, and it’s posted below.

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Deep Silver has released a six-page digital comic prequel to the Dead Island story, available exclusively on the Marvel website.

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Dead Island lifts itself out of the zombie action genre by its emphasis on RPG-like crafting, trading and item collection.

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It’s shorts time again. Get the sweet little stuff below.

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MTV has posted a 20-minute play through of Dead Island, which takes you through the prologue, the skill trees, and zombies getting set on fire and knives jabbed into them. It’s basically a three-part video of the author’s preview copy of the game. You can watch it through the link. Dead Island will be released September 6 in North America and September 9 in the rest of the world.

Techland has updated the official website for Dead Island which screens and character information on Purna, a former officer of the Sydney Police department.

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