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Dead Island has sold over 5 million units worldwide as of its September 2011 release, Deep Silver has announced. The achievement includes sales from both the retail and digital editions. Dead Island Riptide is the next installment in the franchise and will be released on April 23 in North American and on April 26 in European countries.

Dead Island: Riptide has received a 9-minute gameplay trailer from publisher Deep Silver, showing off the game’s new hub defence stand-offs, and plenty of combat in action. We reported on the trailer yesterday, but now we have it right below the fold. Enjoy!

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Dead Island: Riptide has sparked a controversy but for all that it hasn’t been very visible. Today we finally get a proper look at it thanks to a video walkthrough by Deep Silver creative producer Alex Toplansky. Clocking in at nearly nine minutes, the footage shows off a hub defence mission – a new feature in Riptide – and is exclusive to IGN. Riptide is due for release on PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April.

Stace Harman speaks to Deep Silver to discover what lessons have been learned from its commercially successful Dead Island and how they’re being applied to the next game in the series.

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Dead Island: Riptide’s creative producer Anthony Cardahi has discussed a handful of new features included in Techland’s latest zombie title. Horde-mode ‘defence hubs’, flesh hurling zombies and more have been outlined in a new interview. Get the details below.

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New screenshots for Dead Island: Riptide have landed in our laps. We have shared them with you below the break. Dead Island: Riptide is due for release on April 26, 2013.

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Dead Island: Riptide producer Sebastian Reichert has said he unsure why Techland’s franchise is banned in Germany when there are other violent games sitting on store shelves.

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As you may recall from Dead Island, Sam B was on the path to hip hop stardom before the events on Banoi. Apparently he had a new single in the works, featuring Chamillionaire, and now that is a thing you can watch here in the real world, presumably in preparation for Dead Island: Riptide.

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Dead Island: Riptide will take you back to tropical zombie hell next year. VG247′s Dave Cook speaks with Deep Silver about the flooded paradise of Palanai, the game’s plot, co-op play and much more.

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Dead Island: Riptide’s motley crew of rappers, foul-mouthed ex-footballers, secret agents and hotel staff is being joined by a fifth brand-new character. Say hello to John Morgan, and the new city environment of Henderson.

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Dead Island: Riptide is heading to a ‘shore’ near you early 2013. Get it? No? That was awful, sorry. Publisher Deep Silver has confirmed the release date for Technland’s island-hopping zombie adventure, along with pre-order incentives. See all the fine details below.

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Dead Island: Riptide is heading to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 and while it’s not the seismic shift in tone that comes with most sequels, publisher Deep Silver has confirmed to VG247 that the plot will be much darker this time round, and that the island of Palanai is more savage than Banoi.

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Deep Silver has opened a survey asking punters to give feedback on what they’d like to see included in the Collector’s Edition of upcoming sequel Dead Island: Riptide.

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Call of Juarez: Gunslinger has been revealed for PSN, XBLA and PC by developer Techland, following a mysterious teaser image on Facebook yesterday.

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Dead Island: Riptide gets a batch of debut screens showing off returning characters, locations and *surprise* zombies.

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Dead Island: Riptide will allow players to import their saved character stats from the previous game, according to a report on Joystiq. Riptide takes place on a new island in the archipelago from the first game, and will contain a new weather system and upgrades to the game engine. Riptide will launch in 2013 and its public debut takes place at PAX this weekend.

Dead Island developer Techland has created a second team to work on a new fantasy action title currently codenamed Project Hell.

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Dead Island’s co-operative mode is so popular that players have racked up over 57 million hours with it.

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Siliconera reports Techland has filed a US trademark for Dead Stop, under the category “entertainment services and providing an online game via an application for mobile phones and other electronic apparatus”. Techland is the developer behind Dead Island, which is expected to spawn a sequel, Riptide.

Deep Silver’s announced a Dead Island sequel, subtitled Riptide.

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