Back at E3 2014 we saw the humorous announcement trailer for Dead Island 2, which looked to promote a much less serious game than previous releases.

This is reaffirmed in a new trailer, which offers us our first peek at gameplay. The trailer, titled “Sunshine & Slaughter,” reveals lots of creative zombie killing weapons, as well as plenty of the good old fashioned blunt objects and guns options if that’s more your style.

You can see the Dead Island 2 gameplay trailer below.

If you thought Dead Island: Riptide was the sequel to the tropical island zombie apocalypse game Dead Island, and you thought Dying Light was its next-gen spiritual successor, here’s some news for you: they were not, and Dead Island 2 is in fact on the way.

The game was announced with a new cinematic trailer at E3 2014, but unlike that haunting and devastating first trailer for Dead Island, the sequel’s first trailer is much more silly, but in a very entertaining way.

You can check it out below.

Each day, Amazon offers up Lightning Deals, limited quantities of various products for a discounted price available only for a small window of time. For Black Friday week, they’ve been revealing each day’s deals at the top of the day, but for today, they’ve put the items on sale for the entire day. Visit the Video Game Deals calendar page to see all the items available for today.

Note – some of these items listed below were part of previous lightning deals but are still being sold at a discounted price and are available all day, but as with any product, prices are subject to change and supplies may not last, so grab these items while you can.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2013

Xbox Live 3 Month Gold Membership
Online Game Code – $16.99

Dead Island Franchise Pack
Online Game Code

BORDERLANDS 2 AND BORDERLANDS GOTY Pack
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Walking Dead Pack
Online Game Code

Bioshock Triple Pack
Online Game Code

Every day, Amazon offers up Lightning Deals, limited quantities of various products for a discounted price for a 4-hour window of time. You have to be on the lookout for these deals and once the item runs out, the sale is over. Meaning, if you see something on sale that you want, buy it immediately before it’s gone.

Typically you don’t know what will be on sale until the minute it gets posted, but as a prelude to Black Friday, Amazon has released the Lightning Deal schedule and prices for Video Games for Thursday, November 28, 2013.

See here below for a few highlights from Thursday’s deals, along with more information on how these special deals work, and be sure to keep an eye out on the main Video Game Lightning Deals page for sale launch times and countdowns.

Remember that brilliant first cinematic trailer for Dead Island a couple of years back? It was so good it instantly put the game on most people’s radar without even seeing any gameplay, and maybe even elevated some people’s expectations for the game higher than the final product could live up to.

Now that trailer is resurfacing in the form of a shot-for-shot fan-made live-action remake, which, as you might imagine, probably wasn’t the easiest thing in the world to shoot and edit together to match the original.

You can see the new live-action version below.