{"id":15306,"date":"2011-11-03T14:09:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"dead-island-dev-trademarks-dead-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15306-dead-island-dev-trademarks-dead-world","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island dev trademarks \u201cDead World\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although they&rsquo;ve not actually officially announced anything, Dead Island dev, <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20058-Techland\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Techland<\/a>, has apparently filed a trademark for &ldquo;Dead World&rdquo; in America, according to a report over on Siliconera &#8211; pointing to the possibility (or maybe inevitability) of a sequel.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dead_island_old_screenshot_4_979174945.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"340\" height=\"254\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dead Island has been met with a somewhat mixed response from critics, averaging at 71 for console and 80 for PC over on <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20002-Metacritic\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Company Information\">Metacritic<\/a>, but managed to ship one million copies in America during its launch week in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/15156-Dead-Island-review-PS3.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"MyGaming Review\">MyGaming&rsquo;s Alex Hempel gave it a 77<\/a>, calling it &ldquo;a solid, but not outstanding game&rdquo;, citing technical issues and repetitive combat as downers.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;m probably not supposed to say this, but James originally had the game for review and had to give it to Alex instead &#8211; because it was too hard <em>[ahem, &#8220;difficult&#8221; &#8211; Ed]<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Movie company Lionsgate recently acquired the rights to produce a film adaptation of the game, headed up by Mummy guy, Sean Daniel.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2011\/11\/02\/is-dead-world-the-sequel-to-dead-island\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Siliconera\">Siliconera<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Dead_island_old_screenshot_7_448757146.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20040-Dead-Island-sequel-probably-in-the-works\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Forum Link\"><strong>Dead Island sequel probably in the works<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techland won\u2019t confirm a Dead Island sequel, but, you know, one and one make two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}