Dead Island

What will you do? How far will you go? What will you become? Welcome to Banoi, a tropical island where you can leave the stresses of the world behind... Welcome to the Royal Palms Resort - which offers its guests from around the world the ultimate in luxury and relaxation... Welcome to the holiday paradise where your dreams should come true...but where a nightmare is about to begin.... Because a mysterious epidemic has suddenly, and without warning, broken out across the island. The local islanders, hotel guests and workers alike are struck down - only to rise again, craving the flesh and the blood of the still living. For four of the holidaymakers and a handful of others scattered around Banoi who are seemingly unaffected by the plague, they must face the awful, terrifying reality of a zombie apocalypse. Now there is only one thing left to do: survive. Welcome to Dead Island... a paradise to die for.

I Love HELL-A! This gory volume is dripping with insights showing just how the video game world of Dead Island 2 came to life! Featuring never before seen concept art on each of the Slayers, their gear and weapons, the ruined and iconic streets of post-outbreak Los Angeles, and the shambling hordes of dangerous undead that call them home! Also, this book showcases insights from the creators of the game, with captions and text written by Alex Calvin (Runescape: The First 20 Years). Dark Horse Books, Deep Silver, and Dambuster Studios proudly present: The Art of Dead Island 2!

Death comes to the mainland! Richard and Marco were two ordinary slobs, until the zombie apocalypse gave them the chance to become heroes . . . or at least run around and scream a lot! Don’t miss the sidesplitting, gut-ripping digital-exclusive comic th

Dead Island is back! Navigate the treacherous riptides and avoid the infected with the official strategy guide from BradyGamesDead Island: Riptide Official Strategy Guide is the best way to survive the horrors that await you in the follow-up to the original zombie blockbuster, Dead Island. The four survivors thought they had escaped the terrors of Banoi and survived the apocalypse on a corrupted paradise. In reality, their fate took a turn for the worse.Continue the story of Dead Island in the newest action role-playing game from Techland (published by Deep Silver). Dead Island: Riptide Official Strategy Guide will help you guide the survivors with strategies for each open-world mission and detailed boss fight information. Comprehensive maps show you secret areas, hidden collectibles and Dead Zones; coverage of every craftable weapon, new vehicles and infected monstrosity, plus the multiplayer chapter has been fully updated and expanded to include the existing multiplayer and new 'hub defence' mode.The nightmare doesn't have to start again in Dead Island: Riptide. Thanks to Dead Island: Riptide Official Strategy Guide from BradyGames, survival is not just possible, it's shaping up to be fun.

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Tropical Gothic examines Gothic within a specific geographical area of ‘the South’ of the Americas. In so doing, we structure the book around geographical coordinates (from North to South) and move between various national traditions of the gothic (Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, etc) alongside regional manifestations of the Gothic (the US south and the Caribbean) as well as transnational movements of the Gothic within the Americas. The reflections on national traditions of the Gothic in this volume add to the critical body of literature on specific languages or particular nations, such as Scottish Gothic, American Gothic, Canadian Gothic, German Gothic, Kiwi Gothic, etc. This is significant because, while the Southern Gothic in the US has been thoroughly explored, there is a gap in the critical literature about the Gothic in the larger context of region of ‘the South’ in the Americas. This volume does not pretend to be a comprehensive examination of tropical Gothic in the Americas; rather, it pinpoints a variety of locations where this form of the Gothic emerges. In so doing, the transnational interventions of the Gothic in this book read the flows of Gothic forms across borders and geographical regions to tease out the complexities of Gothic cultural production within cultural and linguistic translations. Tropical Gothic includes, but is by no means limited to, a reflection on a region where European colonial powers fought intensively against indigenous populations and against each other for control of land and resources. In other cases, the vast populations of African slaves were transported, endowing these regions with a cultural inheritance that all the nations involved are still trying to comprehend. The volume reflects on how these histories influence the Gothic in this region.

A fascinating read for anyone from general readers to hardcore fans and scholars, this encyclopedia covers virtually every aspect of the zombie as cultural phenomenon, including film, literature, folklore, music, video games, and events. The proliferation of zombie-related fiction, film, games, events, and other media in the last decade would seem to indicate that zombies are "the new vampires" in popular culture. The editors and contributors of Encyclopedia of the Zombie: The Walking Dead in Popular Culture and Myth took on the prodigious task of covering all aspects of the phenomenon, from the less-known historical and cultural origins of the zombie myth to the significant works of film and literature as well as video games in the modern day that feature the insatiable, relentless zombie character. The encyclopedia examines a wide range of significant topics pertaining to zombies, such as zombies in the pulp magazines; the creation of the figure of the zuvembie to subvert decades of censorship by the Comics Code of Authority; Humans vs. Zombies, a popular zombie-themed game played on college campuses across the country; and annual Halloween zombie walks. Organized alphabetically to facilitate use of the encyclopedia as a research tool, it also includes entries on important scholarly works in the expanding field of zombie studies.