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This game craves brains because it clearly has none.

Dead Island is a game in the midst of an identity crisis.  It’s not sure if it wants to be Dead Rising 2 with its customizable weapons and biting humor, Left 4 Dead with its multiplayer focused gameplay, or Borderlands with its RPG elements and zombies that bleed numbers.  Dead Island wants to be all of these things and in trying to do so fails to do anything well, the result of which is an overly flawed experience that just months ago looked so promising.

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Just don't ask us when that will be.

At this past E3 Nintendo pulled back the curtains on the Wii U, the company’s first gaming platform capable of producing High Definition graphics.  While the controller and muddled presentation of the system took most of the spotlight, Nintendo produced a sizzle reel of 3^rd party games that are said to be in development for the new system.  One of the more notable games in the reel was Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge, a title that should give Nintendo some credentials with the mature gaming audience.  While we still don’t know for sure when the game is set to hit shelves, we have it on good authority it will launch alongside the system promoting it.

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Includes an impressive 4-disc soundtrack and more.

Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be hitting store shelves early next year to the delight of many a Final Fantasy fan, but now they have even more to be excited about with the announcement of a special collector’s edition that actually delivers some very special content.

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Online Beta also dated and it starts sooner than you may expect.

It’s been a while since the Batman-themed multiplayer First Person Shooter was announced, but we haven’t heard a whole heck of a lot about when we could expect to see the game.  That changed today and you’ll be happy to know that you’ll be taking shots at batman look-alikes and Joker posers sooner than later.

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You read that right, the next game in the Saints Row series has been confirmed less than a week before the release of The Third.

Next week sees the release of Saints Row: The Third, the crazy sandbox organized crime game that filled in the void left by Grand Theft Auto when Rockstar decided to go in a more mature and socially relevant route with GTA IV.  It’s no surprise that the series has done well and THQ and the crew expects that this will be the biggest Saints Row yet.  They have so much faith, in fact, that THQ’s own Danny Bilson has revealed that a fourth entry in the series is already in the works.

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