Square Enix To Distribute Dead Island In The U.S.

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: May 3, 2011 04:01 pm

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Remember Dead Island? Take a moment to refresh your memory with this trailer, in case you forgot — or haven’t heard of — Deep Silver’s zombie survival-action game, which sees a small group of people stuck on an island with a zombie outbreak.

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Square Enix announced today that they’ll be handling distribution for Dead Island in the U.S., and it sounds like they’ll be responsible for marketing it, too. Interestingly, Deep Silver are owned by Koch Media, who distribute Square Enix and Eidos games in certain European territories like Germany.

Dead Island is being prepared for an Xbox 360, PC and PlayStation 3 release this year.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.