Every Tuesday, Sony drops a bunch of new stuff onto the PlayStation Network. Those with a PlayStation 3, Vita or PSP can download these goodies, which include PSN games, movies, themes and more. While the Official PlayStation Blog outlines these updates in full each week, we thought we’d help truncate the good news into something more digestible.
Here are this week’s new PSN games.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
It’s tempting to simply paste the original Dead Island review here and call it a day. A sequel to 2011’s first-person zombie-dismembering co-op role-playing game, Dead Island Riptide adds a new character, some additional zombies, and boats, but otherwise largely reanimates the same hours of gory decapitations and corpse looting. The action is here in spades, but Riptide doesn’t lift a finger to address the original Dead Island‘s failures.
That’s not a terrible thing, because for my money Dead Island – and by extension Riptide – nails what a zombie RPG should be. Loot the island, upgrade machetes from flimsy metal to powerful electrified killing machines, and level up your character with a seemingly endless supply of experience points. The “DING” of hitting that next level is a hypnotic device – a Pavlovian trigger – that had me popping open my skill tree and hemming and hawing over whether I wanted more bleeding damage or more inventory slots.
From: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/22/dead-island-riptide-review
Greg stops in to say hello to Ryan Clements and Ryan actually interviews Greg about Dead Island Riptide. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
By Daniel Nye Griffiths, Contributor
Continuing the general theme of “too many zombies”, Deep Silver released a set of new screenshots for Dead Island: Riptide, and invited selected members of the press, self included, to play some of the new zombie-killing action-RPG. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
From February 26 through March 4, Xbox Live’s Games on Demand service will discount more than 60 games. The price cuts go up to 75% off, with a handful coming discounted at 85%.
Batman: Arkham City, BioShock, Halo 4, Borderlands 2, Dead Island, Max Payne 3, Resident Evil 6, and Metal Gear Solid HD are just a few of the titles you’ll see on sale next week.
Look at the full list below and at MajorNelson for all 61 titles to be discounted over the coming week.
Deep Silver has announced that more than five million copies of Dead Island have been sold worldwide since its release in September 2011. The figure includes both digital and retail sales, and Deep Silver notes that even today the game “still maintains an exceptionally strong sales rate in all channels.”
“We’re very proud to have achieved five million units sold worldwide,” said Menno van der Bil, innternational commercial director for Koch Media (Deep Silver’s parent company). We see this sustained excellent performance as a particularly good omen for the projected sales of Dead Island Riptide, our upcoming next installment, that will be released later this year. The continued success of Dead Island has proven that we’re on the right track with our overall IP strategy for Deep Silver. Further new IPs with an innovative angle and maybe even a surprising touch can be expected from Deep Silver.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Following THQ’s auction of its assets, the new homes of THQ franchises are slowly being revealed. According to multiple IGN sources as well as reports circulating on Twitter, Koch Media, Take-Two, Ubisoft and SEGA are among the new owners of THQ’s intellectual property and studios.
SEGA has reportedly acquired Relic, developer of Company of Heroes and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
Koch Media (owner of Dead Island publisher Deep Silver) has reportedly agreed to purchase Saints Row developer Volition as well as the publishing rights to the Metro franchise.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
Deep Silver walks us through a mission in the zombie apocalypse that is Dead Island.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
By Erik Kain, Contributor Deep Silver’s Zombie Bait edition of ‘Dead Island: Riptide’ has stirred up controversy, but does it reflect poorly on the video game industry?
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Latest
Deep Silver has revealed the Zombie Bait Edition of Dead Island Riptide. Set to come to the UK, the Zombie Bait Edition includes steelbook packaging, collectors’ artwork and weapon downloadable content in addition to a 12-inch statue of a bikini-clad torso with its head and limbs removed.
According to Deep Silver sales and marketing director Paul Nicholls, “we wanted to provide a unique collector’s edition that was utterly ‘Dead Island’ and would make a striking conversation piece on any discerning zombie gamer’s mantel.” Deep Silver called the statue a “grotesque take on an iconic Roman marble torso sculpture.”
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games
