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Live-action version of iconic Dead Island trailer is even sadder
Grab some tissues, because the tear-jerking, award-winning trailer from Dead Island has been remade in live-action. That's right: Instead of looking into the soulless, dead eyes of a computer-animated horde of zombies, you can look into the soulless, dead eyes of real-life zombies and the family they devour. Aren't video games fun? The trailer comes to the Internet courtesy of Machinima, and save for the very end, is a shot-by-shot recreation of the infamous trailer. We assume the reason for the ending remaining a CG animation is because there is, in fact, no Royal Palms Resort on the island of Banoi, and building an entire hotel for roughly 10 seconds of footage is a pretty tall budget order. Or maybe the creators just didn't feel like tempting fate and starting the zombie apocalypse. While this is a fan film, it nonetheless gives us an idea of what that Dead Island movie from Lionsgate might look like, should it ever be finished.
Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition announced for Japan
Saints Row 4 will bring its bravado to Japan on January 23, 2014. Famitsu reports the Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition will include downloadable content previously released internationally, but we're following up with the game's publisher in the region to confirm specifics. "We won't even be finished with DLC releases in January, so it wont include all SR4 DLC," a representative for publisher Deep Silver tells Joystiq. "That edition is for Japan only since it is the Japanese release of the game." So don't go expecting a Saints Row 4 Ultra Super Ultimate Deluxe Edition with all DLC included hitting in North American or Europe. Well, at least not in January.
Weekend deals: RPG bundles, Deep Silver sale, Xbox Live points, Injustice
PC owners with an itch for leveling up and a lot of free time are in luck this week - Gamefly has several bundles with some deep discounts, so long as you use the promo code GFDOCT20 during checkout. The Witcher series can be collectively snagged for $17.99, both Torchlight games can be looted for $13.99, and the Mass Effect Trilogy's price tag has gone Paragon at $13.99. Dragon Age: Origins Ultimate Edition (and a sadness simulator) can also be had for $9.99, while Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War can be had with couch change at $3.49. If you're a Steam user, you have until tomorrow to pick through the sale for publisher Deep Silver's catalog. Offers include Saints Row 4 at $24.99, the Metro franchise and its DLC for $36.84, and the Dead Island games and their DLC for $33.49. If you need to gear up for the Xbox One launch, GamerDeals found an Amazon promotion that pairs a $20 code for Xbox Live with the purchase of a 12-month Xbox Live Gold subscription. The offer is good until November 9, so if you don't have the cash now, no worries! Lastly, console owners can gruesomely rip a chunk off the price tag for the 360, PS3 and Vita versions of Mortal Kombat: Komplete Edition for $14.99. If you'd rather spout comic-worthy one-liners while dealing out death, Injustice: Gods Among Us is on sale for the 360, PS3 and Wii U for under $40.
Steam weekend: Deep Silver deals, Mass Effect 2 and EVE Online 75% off
Steam is offering up a number of deals this weekend, including discounts on Deep Silver-published games. Among the series in Deep Silver's catalog that are on sale this weekend are the Metro, Risen, Saint's Row, Sacred and Dead Island series, with notable discounts on their respective bundles: The Metro Franchise Pack is 33 percent off ($36.84), the Risen Collection is half off ($19.99), the Saints Row: The Third - The Full Package bundle is 50 percent off ($14.99), the Dead Island Franchise Pack is 66 percent off ($16.99) and the Sacred Collection is just $17.49. What's more, both Mass Effect 2 and EVE Online are 75 percent off this weekend, or just under $5 each. Three-month subscription plans for EVE Online are half off until Monday as well.
Saints Row 4 enters the dominatrix today
The standalone Saints Row 3 expansion, "Enter the Dominatrix," meant to generate any type of money to save embattled publisher THQ but ultimately found itself canceled, now lives on in Saints Row 4. THQ may be a memory, but Deep Silver saw fit to put the $6.99 DLC into the wild. It comes included with the Saints Row 4 Season Pass.
Deep Silver publishing NASCAR 14 in early 2014, starts cover vote contest
Deep Silver will publish the next iteration of developer Eutechnyx's licensed racing game in early 2014, NASCAR 14. Coming to PS3 and Xbox 360, the game will feature drop-in, drop-out online multiplayer races for up to 16 players as well as online league play with challenges, rankings and "dynamic statistics" support. Players can also play through the game's career mode, acquiring sponsorship and building their cars up to win races. NASCAR 14 is the first entry in the series published by Deep Silver, as Activision handled the distribution of the series since the 2011 release of NASCAR: The Game 2011, which followed EA's cancellation of the series in September 2009. Eutechnyx announced plans to self-publish the series in June, prior to Deep Silver picking up the game's publishing rights. Deep Silver launched a Facebook app to allow fans to vote on NASCAR 14's cover driver. The winning driver will be announced in early December.
Metro: Last Light 'Chronicles Pack' available now
Attention passengers: We are arriving at "Chronicles Pack," the last stop on the Metro: Last Light downloadable content line. The fourth and final piece of DLC includes three solo missions filling in side stories that run parallel to the game's main tale. The pack also includes the "multi barrelled bicycle shotgun," a fan-created weapon that 4A Games was impressed by enough to toss in the game. The Chronicles Pack is priced at the reasonable round-trip ticket price of $4.99. It's also part of the Metro season pass, which now includes all four pieces of DLC immediately available for $15.
Saints Row 4 'Enter the Dominatrix' DLC gets freaky on Oct. 23 in UK [Update: Oct. 22 in US]
The "Enter the Dominatrix" DLC hits Saints Row 4 with a giant dildo bat on October 23 in the UK. Enter the Dominatrix is the first installment of the Saints Row 4 Season Pass, but it will also be available as a standalone purchase for GBP 6. The DLC includes an alternate Zin invasion storyline with the Saints trapped in a virtual world run by the AI program known as the Dominatrix – from there it's a battle to survive against sex workers and gimps. Enter the Dominatrix includes new weapons, enemies, allies and missions, and features behind-the-scenes commentary. Developer Volition will livestream the DLC on October 23 from 1PM - 4PM CT on Twitch. Enter the Dominatrix was originally planned as an expansion to Saints Row: The Third, and was expected to hit 45 days after Saints Row 4 launched. Turns out October 23 is 61 days after the UK launch on August 23. So close. Update: Enter the Dominatrix hits the US on Oct. 22 with a standalone price of $7. That's 63 days between full-game launch and DLC – if only Deep Silver had waited six more days.
Dead Island Riptide is free to play on Steam this weekend
Dead Island Riptide is free for Steam users to play this weekend until Sunday at 1:00pm PT. The game is also 66 percent off ($13.59) until Monday, September 30, a good deal for those wanting to keep the game after this weekend's free trial. The Game of the Year Edition of the original Dead Island is discounted on Steam this weekend as well, as it is 75 percent off ($4.99) until Monday. The special edition includes the full game, Bloodbath Arena DLC, Ryder White DLC and Ripper mod packs.
Saints Row 4 Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition discounted at GameStop
Saints Row 4's Super Dangerous Wub Wub Edition is currently $10 off at GameStop. Normally priced at $100, the special edition features in-game content like the Screaming Eagle VTOL, Uncle Sam uniform and 'Merica gun. The collector's pack also includes an eight-inch Johnny Gat Memorial Statue, a red doomsday button and 12-inch replica Dub Step gun. The offer only applies to the PS3 and Xbox 360 special editions. PC owners aren't totally left out in the cold, as they can download the new Saints Row 4 DLC, the GAT V pack, for free on Steam for a (very) limited time.
PSA: GAT V pack free for 24 hours on Steam
Saints Row 4 is giving away the GAT V Pack today for free on Steam. The pack, with a name similar to that other game (coincidence!?), includes Johnny Gat fashions and official Aisha costume. It also contains the Reynolds .50 Heavy Machine Gun and knifethrower. The GAT V Pack and the Wild West Pack for SR4 will be available today on Steam and consoles in the States, and tomorrow for consoles internationally. The packs are priced at $2.99 apiece regularly, so get your free GAT on PC today.
Saints Row 4 loads up GATV, Wild West DLC packs next week
As far as Saints Row 4 is concerned, next week's big-name gaming arrival is 'GATV'. As revealed on the PlayStation Blogcast, the city-based sandbox game receives GATV and 'Wild West' as DLC packs. Going by this GameFAQs leak, the GATV pack features Johnny Gat-styled clothes, hair, and a knifegun(!), but it's unclear what the Wild West pack comprises (beyond something western-y). The podcast only confirmed the packs for next week's PSN update, but we expect they'll come to Xbox 360 and PC versions around the same time.
Metro: Last Light gets 'Developer Pack' DLC next week
Metro: Last Light's third piece of DLC, the Developer Pack, will arrive next week. The pack includes one new solo mission called "The Spider's Nest," which challenges players to escape from a "spider infested catacomb" while carrying a flamethrower. It also features a shooting range for players to test out gun and attachment combinations, a "Metro Museum" gallery and AI arena to play with custom human and mutant squads. The Developer Pack will be free for Season Pass holders, or $3.99, £3.19 and €3.99 on its own. It will launch on Steam, Xbox 360 and PS3 on September 17, while European PS3 owners will have to wait one more day for it to arrive on September 18.
Saints Row 4 price drop at GameStop
There's an expedited and frugal route to the Oval Office in Saints Row 4, a game in which you foil an alien invasion as only the President of the United States could, and it's cheaper now through GameStop. Both the Xbox 360 and PS4 standard versions of Saints Row 4 are down to $50 at GameStop now (matching the PC version's price), either online or in store. If you want to snag a used copy, that'll be $45. Dubstep gun not included. We thoroughly enjoyed our time with Saints Row 4 when the game launched last month. It's an experience our review lauded for its "inventive, hilariously unexpected examples of truly inspired game design."
Metro: Last Light emerges on Mac today
The Steam version of Metro: Last Light has been updated for Macs today. The game supports Steamplay, so if you've purchased the Windows version already you can access the Mac version for free. The Mac port of Metro: Last Light will make its way to the App store soon, publisher Deep Silver says. All DLC and the Season Pass will be available to Mac users, while a Linux port is due sometime later this year. Metro: Last Light is set a year after the events of 4A Games' Metro 2033, based on the novel of the same name. Metro: Last Light follows humanity's struggle to survive while inhabiting the underground subway systems of Russia following an apocalyptic nuclear war. It's a game our review said "truly excels at pacing and direction, even while it dabbles with verbose characters and an ambiguous supernatural element."
Metro: Last Light is $20 on Steam this week
Metro: Last Light is 60 percent off on Steam until 4PM PT on Thursday – that means it's marked down to $20. Last Light is the sequel to Metro 2033, which also happens to be on sale this week for $3.75. The sale arrives just in time for Metro: Last Light's Tower Pack DLC, which launches this week. The add-on content is free for Season Pass holders and can be purchased separately for $5.
Saints Row 4 'Presidential' and 'Grass Roots' DLC out today
Saints Row 4 gets two wildly different (and just plain wild) DLC packs this week, with the Presidential and Grass Roots packs running $3 each. Both bundles hit Steam and PSN today, and Xbox Live Marketplace tomorrow. The Presidential Pack includes masks of four influential US presidents – Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Barack Obama and George W. Bush – along with customizable outfits. This bundle was available as a pre-order bonus at Gamestop and EB games. The Grass Roots pack takes the saints to the country with farm-inspired costumes, a gun that shoots plungers and some sort of explosive that sounds like a juicy fart. Hooray.
Saints Row 4 sells over one million copies in first week
Open-world power trip Saints Row 4 had a good launch week, selling over a million units through retail and digital distribution. Publisher Deep Silver also noted the latest installment's PC version had nearly triple the sales of Saints Row 3 during the same period after its retail release. "The development team at Volition is second-to-none as a driving creative force in the entertainment industry and we are very proud to have them as part of the Deep Silver family," said Deep Silver CEO Klemens Kundratitz. Our review called Saints Row 4 a "modern classic befitting the insane legacy" of the disorderly Saints.
Freefall Racers combines Kinect, squirrels, and skydiving [update]
Freefall Racers looks like most kart games, except that it uses Kinect's motion controls and features skydiving squirrels instead of go-karts. The nutty XBLA game is due sometime next month, according to this video from publisher Deep Silver. This isn't the first we've heard of Freefall Racers. It popped up on our radar back in May, correctly rumored as being developed by Kinect specialist studio Smoking Gun Interactive. You may recognize the Vancouver dev from its work on Kinect games like Home Run Stars, Mars Rover Landing, and Doodle Jump. The video doesn't go into too much detail, but it does reveal some of the game's power-ups including the zapper, smoke-screen, and shield. It also spills the beans on a local two-player mode, featuring some competitive split-screen plummeting. We're waiting for a release date to drop, but a price floats into view: $9.99/£7.99/€9.99. Update: Deep Silver chips in with a release date: September 6.
Metro: Last Light takes a ride to Mac, Linux
4A Games is developing Metro: Last Light for Mac, which will be released on September 10 on the App Store and Steam. A Linux version is scheduled for launch later this year. Steam owners who own the PC version will automatically gain access to the oppressive shooter on other platforms upon launch. Metro: Last Light's downloadable content and season pass is also scheduled for the added platforms. "Development was handled in-house by 4A games, and we are very happy with the results. We hope that Mac and Linux gamers will appreciate our efforts to create the best possible version for their machines," said Oles Shishkovstov, Chief Technical Officer at 4A Games. Deep Silver CEO Dr. Klemens Kundratitz told us during Gamescom that the publisher will continue to support the series, which has struggled to find a mass audience, since one of its key elements is "suffocating despair."
