Dead Island has shipped 2 million copies

In it’s first week of global release Dead Island has been confirmed by Deep Silver that 2 million copies of Dead Island have been shipped, despite the bugs found on many platforms in early reports of the game.

Klemens Kundratitz, CEO of Koch Media.

“With Dead Island a number one in several important retail territories, this success has also confirmed our standing as a global publisher and has once again proven our position as Europe’s number one retail distributor.”

(Source: gamefreaks.co.nz)

Activision/Infinity Ward taking care of PC COD players

So as more and more COD news streams in, it seems Kotaku has just reported that Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 will have LAN Support which is good news seeing that most game released these days require some sort of net connection or online Steam support.

As seen in previous COD Games (MW2 and Black Ops) the LAN feature was not included. Weather on not this is IW worried about losing the BF3 v MW3 war, this is definitely a point going towards BF3, seeing that back in August Karl Troedsson had no plans to implement LAN support but was foreseeing this as a future possibility.

Borderlands showing PC love

With the increase of PC gameplay and stability coming only after console stability for video games the cool kids over at Gearbox have announced that they will be showing some needed love to BL2 players on the PC version.

This is a breath of fresh air after the debacle of the PC version of BL1’s network support for 4 player co-op.

“rest assured we’ll be putting a lot of effort into properly supporting our PC customers for Borderlands 2.” - JSpaceman (UI Lead) 

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(Source: rockpapershotgun.com)

The other side of the coin (MW3)

For the last week I’ve been posting a few video’s regarding Call Of Duty’s new Modern Warfare 3 with some pretty neat gameplay and features.

But let’s think back to the announcement of the ‘Elite’ service that was proposed by Activision. It was communicated that the service would cost less than a regular subscription fee that would be on par with other online services available (i.e Netflix, Foxtel, Xbox Live) But as pointed out in by the boys over on Geekosystem these services offer a variation of content and services rather than a direct service for just the one game.

The pricing was confirmed today at $49.99 and this includes the following.

• Track all kind of in-depth statistics (Weapon analysis, Map analysis)
• Personal Leaderboards
• Perk and screenshot sharing
• Advanced clan support 
• Video Coaching.  
• And it also includes DLC content

For a hardcore Modern Warfare gamer this is a must have subscription and with the inclusion of the DLC content, it’s not a bad investment. You have to remember that once this takes off, Activision will stick to this model for all future releases.

Now let’s step back and look at what your willing to spend $118 for the game and $50 strait away on the yearly subscription and lets not forget it’s on stop of your Xbox Live subscription (if you swing that way). At this point your committing yourself to a lot of buck, let’s hope you get enough bang.