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The Dead Island: Riptide ad has been pulled in Australia. The ad received a number of complaints over the depiction of suicide, says the Australian Advertising Standards Board. The ad shows a couple in a crashed boat, surrounded by zombies, who then blow up the boat with them inside. (You …
Read More »Dead Island Riptide makes it a hat-track of UK No.1’s
Deep Silver’s Dead Island Riptide remains at the top of the UKIE Gfk Chart-Track All Formats Top 40. It’s the second game of 2013 to claim the top spot for three weeks in succession after 2K Games’ BioShock Infinite, and does so despite sales tumbling 55 per cent week on …
Read More »UK CHARTS: Dead Island shuffles to No.1
Dead Island: Riptide defied the critics by becoming the UK’s best selling video game this week. Despite some dodgy reviews, the game was comfortably the best seller, although it only managed half the sales of the original. The first game was a big hit for publisher Deep Silver following what …
Read More »Some Dead Island: Riptide codes are accidentally redeeming Dark Souls on Steam
A number of consumers have this morning taken to the internet to complain about a problem with some UK versions of Dead Island: Riptide. The Steam forums carry complaints from several users who tried to redeem the Steam code found in their copy of the game only to find that …
Read More »So Deep Silver went ahead and shipped the Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition regardless
We sincerely regret this choice.” Those were the words of a Deep Silver rep in January of this year following the backlash that greeted its unveiling of the Dead Island Riptide Zombie Bait Edition. For those who don’t remember, the SKU comes bundled with a bust of a dismembered female …
Read More »Dead Island PR stunt gives MCV the chance to put ‘Luis Suarez bite’ in a headline for SEO win
And to think – we thought we’d miss out on the Luis Suarez SEO bandwagon. As we know, Deep Silver is holding a real zombie-themed wedding in an effort to promote this Friday’s release of Dead Island: Riptide. Now the company has put out a press release saying that it …
Read More »Deep Silver names zombie wedding couple
Jennifer Jones and Rob Blackmore will get married on April 23rd – Dead Island style. Back in January publisher Deep Silver announced that it was launching a competition that would see it pay for a couple’s entire wedding – provided it carries a zombie theme and features plenty of Dead …
Read More »Two more core games skip Wii U release
The self-perpetuating circle that is denting Wii U’s chances on the market has claimed two more victims. Firstly, Saints Row IV publisher Deep Silver has confirmed to Polygon that the recently announced Saints Row IV is not due to make an appearance on Nintendo’s machine. Secondly, fans of Dead Island: …
Read More »Deep Silver apologizes for offensive Dead Island Riptide statue
Deep Silver has issued an apology over the mutilated female torso sculpture included in the Dead Island Riptide: Zombie Bate Edition announced earlier today. What was supposed to be a gory twist on the marble torso statue, quickly turned into backlash fodder across the internet against the studio – due …
Read More »Dead Island: Riptide will not be released in Germany
The follow-up to Dead Island will not make it to Germany, revealed the game’s creative producer. Techland’s Sebastian Reichert revealed Dead Island: Riptide will skip the major European games market during an interview with PCGamesN. "We have no censored version of the game so we cannot release it in Germany.” …
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