GB: "We recently got a chance to sit down with Deep Silver and ask them some questions their upcoming FPS, Dead Island. We asked them if their upcoming zombie invasion game has been influenced by any popular pop culture comics/books/movies/games or anything in general, and pointed out that the game has similarities with Walking Dead, the famous comic book series."
According to a LinkedIn post, Bethesda and Xbox Game Studio representatives will meet up with Deep Silver Volition employees.
That's pretty cool, but didn't they just lay of 10k as a whole. Reportedly some from the gaming division even.
Confused in pa.
This is called good PR. And an opportunity to hire veterans over scrubs.
Not to call them scrubs but yeah some veteran devs are more welcome than others with less experience
You can hire veterans all day long but it’s the talent Microsoft lacks.
It was mostly outside of gaming. Most of the game studios weren't affected besides 343i and Coalition from what I recall
But of course. Just look at the latest Saint's Row....that is exactly the level of quality and writing that Xbox strives for these days.
There u go. This is way more acceptable than buying up studios. Buy individual talent until you strengthen your already owned studios. 👏🏽
Publisher formerly known as Koch Media will merge Deep Silver, Prime Matter and Ravenscourt under single brand.
We might be in the age of remasters, but it doesn't look like the Dead Island 2 devs believe remaking the original game is the right move for the series.
but remakes require far less effort for these companies and they can still charge $70 for them!
Feel like everyone makes fun of Skyrim re-releasing like 18 times yet applaud these remasters elsewhere. Would much prefer NEW games
Making sequels really is the way to go. Otherwise we'll be stuck playing only the first entry, forever!!!
Oh god, you dont say.
gamingbolt = captain obvious
It's also influenced by Night of the living dead, Return of the living dead, Dawn of the dead, Day of the dead, some from Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2, Army of Darkness and also Braindead, Zombieland and 28 days later...
From what I've seen, the only similarity with Walking Dead is that Dead Island has zombies. Otherwise, the tone and everything else about it is different.
That's a lie. This game has been in development longer then the Walking Dead graphic novel has been in publication. Nice try to bolster sales. The game is going to be a fail because everyone is calling it a cheap L4D clone.