{"id":39218,"date":"2012-06-06T13:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T11:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=39218"},"modified":"2012-06-11T13:08:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T11:08:05","slug":"dead-island-riptide-announced-to-continue-battle-between-life-and-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/39218-dead-island-riptide-announced-to-continue-battle-between-life-and-death","title":{"rendered":"Dead Island Riptide announced to continue battle between life and death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Dead Island sequel rumour surfaced last week,\u00a0and it has proven true, as Deep Silver have officially announced a follow-up to the zombie-fest.<\/p>\n<p>The sequel, which will also be developed by Techland, is set to resurrect the perils and horror of the first game.<\/p>\n<p>No news on whether Riptide will be a full-blown sequel or something else, as details are incredibly slim at this point in time, although Deep Silver did say that they would be revealing some more information soon.<\/p>\n<p>The first Dead Island became a best-selling game within the genre, and although it did well critically, there were some complaints regarding the &#8220;technical issues, repetitive combat and a general lack of credible physics&#8221;, as Alex Hempel mentioned in his <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/15156-dead-island-review-ps3.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyGaming review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe Techland can perfect the sandbox zombie adventure we&#8217;re all hoping for.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Biggest games of E3\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/38799-biggest-games-of-e3.html\"><strong>Biggest games of E3<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"E3 2012 news\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/tag\/e3-2012\">All E3 coverage<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39180-watch-dogs-confirmed-for-xbox-360-ps3-and-pc.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch Dogs confirmed for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39055-watch-dogs-ubisofts-e3-surprise.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Watch Dogs: Ubisoft\u2019s E3 surprise<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39053-need-for-speed-most-wanted-picks-up-the-e3-heat.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Need For Speed: Most Wanted picks up the E3 heat<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39023-tomb-raider-e3-demonstration-tests-laras-limits.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Tomb Raider E3 demonstration tests Lara\u2019s limits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/39038-dead-space-3-comes-with-co-op-and-a-release-window.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Dead Space 3 comes with co-op and a release window<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looks like there&#8217;s to be more trouble in paradise. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":39219,"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":[4821,4820,4394,2553,21,2219],"class_list":["post-39218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-dead-island-2","tag-dead-island-riptide","tag-dead-island-sequel","tag-deep-silver","tag-headline","tag-megarom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218","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\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39218"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39220,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39218\/revisions\/39220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}