Battle Royale games have been front and center this year when it comes to the discussion of online multiplayer titles. Perhaps then it is no surprise that Techland, the developers behind the Dying Light franchise, will be bringing their own unique spin on the genre with the reveal of the stand-alone Dying Light: Bad Blood expansion. Bad Blood‘s official website promises that Techland’s approach to BR will set itself apart from the competition by incorporating P.V.E elements into a traditionally P.V.P only genre. Not...
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Learn About Customizable Dirt Buggies In Dying Light’s Latest Trailer
Techland has released another brand new trailer for the upcoming The Following expansion for last year’s surprise hit Dying Light. One of the key features of The Following the ability for the player to not only drive dirt buggies in a new open world environment but also customize them. You’ll be able to equip your ride with several enhancements including devastating weapons like flamethrowers, UV headlights, ramming bars & more to help you stop the undead hordes....
Continue reading...New Dying Light The Following Story Trailer
Techland, the developers behind Dying Light, have given fans another glimpse into the story for the upcoming expansion in a brand new trailer titled “A Prophecy Incarnated”. This trailer also gives viewers a brief glimpse at some of the new characters to be introduced in this expansion as well as its’ new environments. Dying Light: The Following is a major expansion for the original 2015 game. Following the original game’s protagonist The Following drops players into a...
Continue reading...Dying Light Enhanced Edition Coming To Current-Gen and PC
Fans of the undead can rejoice in the fact that they’ll be getting the chance to take on the hordes, parkour style, with the release of Dying Light: The Following – Enhanced Edition on February 9th 2016. This brand new retail release includes the enhanced version of the base game, originally released earlier this year, as well as the upcoming expansion The Following. Also included in this new Enhanced Edition are the previously released add-ons: Bozak Horde...
Continue reading...Dying Light Dev Scares Up Some Halloween Fun
Dying Light developers Tech Land have released a very spoopy (yes that was intentional) and unexpected Halloween message for their fans. Do they have a trick or a treat in store for fans of their undead franchise? You’ll just have to watch the video below to find out! Tech Land community manager had this say about the Halloween message: “If once you’re done partying you still feel like having a bit of a fright this Halloween season,...
Continue reading...Dying Light Gets Hard Mode
Techland has announced that the hard mode patch for their open world zombie survival horror title Dying Light is now available on PC, Xbox One and PlayStation in North and South America. The rest of the world will be receiving the patch tomorrow – March 11th. The new difficulty level isn’t the only additions in this latest patch, the developers have also added dozens of new weapons including the Bone Splitter and Rune Hammer. There are also...
Continue reading...Dying Light | Review
Taking the zombie survival genre we’ve come to know and love, then making it into an open world adventure that lies somewhere between Mirror’s Edge and Dead Rising, this is a fantastic title! There’s something familiar but unique in the first person presentation of Dying Light’s parkour style gameplay. As a runner for a group of survivors you’ll venture out into the zombie infested fictional city of Harran. So what makes this such an experience? Read on...
Continue reading...A Couple Nights With Dying Light
Just released yesterday, the zombie infested city parkour adventure Dying Light is quite an unique title. The game vaguely feels like a free roam version of Mirror’s Edge with some Dead Rising mixed in. This creates some amazing experiences that can relate to the games quite unbelievable, however accurate, gameplay trailer. There’s nothing quite like running down an alleyway on your way to a mission, then stopping dead when you come to a street full of shambling...
Continue reading...Techland Sends Xbox 360 / PS3 Versions of Dying Light To The Grave
Dying Light developer Techland has announced that they have ceased production on the last generation versions of their upcoming undead slaying action game. They cited the fact that the PS3 and Xbox 360 couldn’t quite handle advanced features like physics based lighting technologies or displaying up to 200,000 objects on screen at one time as one of the contributing factors for cancelling both versions. Sad news for those who haven’t jumped into the eight generation of consoles,...
Continue reading...Swordplay Shown In Hellraid Dev Diary
Perhaps one of my most anticipated titles for 2014, yes I’m not like most other people, is Hellraid. From the studio that brought us Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide, comes a dark fantasy twist from Techland with the awesome gameplay that made the Dead Island franchise so popular. For those unfamiliar, you can check out some of the screenshots that have been released. You can also see the first gameplay trailer that was released almost a...
Continue reading...February’s Games with Gold Titles Announced
With the end of each month, comes the newest announcement of the next two games that Microsoft will make free for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. Last month, gamers had the chance to pick up Sleeping Dogs for the first half of January and for the second half the Xbox Live arcade title Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. It seems that Microsoft is starting to turn the tide and are starting to release pretty decent titles for...
Continue reading...New Hellraid Images Are…Grotesque
Techland announced a little over a month ago a new IP called Hellraid. It’s basically Dead Island meets a dark fantasy setting. Hellraid is a first person hack-n-slash game that can be played cooperatively with up to three different friends. You can play as four different classes including a Warrior, Mage, Paladin, & a Rogue – so there are plenty of characters for all different play styles. If you happened to miss the first gameplay trailer of...
Continue reading...Techland Announces ‘Dying Light’
Techland has their hands occupied it seems. With this weeks release of Call Of Juarez: Gunslinger on XBLA, PSN, & PC and the newly announced Hellraid, who would’ve thought that they had another game in the works? Today Techland, developer of the amazing Dead Island franchise, has announced yet another game: Dying Light. Techland has teamed up with Warner Bros. (who is apparently publishing the game) to bring this new IP to PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and...
Continue reading...First Gameplay Of Hellraid Emerges
Announced just a little over a week ago was Hellraid, coming from developer of the popular Dead Island franchise, Techland. Hellraid is essentially Dead Island meets Skyrim with four player co-op – which sounds like a win-win to me. Here is how the game is described on the official website in terms of playable classes: Play in cooperation in a team of four heroes with different skills and weapon capabilities. Slaughter enemies with swords and axes as...
Continue reading...Hellraid Is Dead Island Developer’s New Game, Coming This Year
Dead Island developer Techland has announced it will be launching a new IP later this year titled: Hellraid. From what I can gather it’s a mix of Dead Island’s combat style mixed up with some might and magic set in a dark universe. With Dead Island: Riptide just being released, it came as a bit of a surprise that Techland would announce another game so soon…but seeing how it’s slated to release on Xbox 360, PS3, & PC this...
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