There’s certainly nothing wrong with pulling some emotional strings. However, the trailer attempts to tug at those same heartstrings as the “anticipation-building” teaser trailer, matching in some in-game footage.

The highly anticipated zombie game Dead Island has gotten the attention of the ESRB. But, for its logo of all things. According to IGN, the Dead Island boxart logo has been “censored” removing the hanging corpse. However, the in-game logo will remain uncensored.

The censored logo features a walking zombie on the ground instead of the hanging corpse, confirmed a Deep Silver representative. In addition, the representative also mentioned that the changes will pertain to the North American version of the game.

Please say it ain’t so. According to a post on the official 3D Realms forums, long running developer 3D Realms has closed its doors for the final time due to funding issues – as sources reported.

Although the developers did not explicitly confirm the closure, the recently relaunched Apogee Software and its publishing partner Deep Silver issued a statement saying they were “not affected by the situation at 3D Realms. Development on the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned.”

3D Realms were working on such games as Duke Nukem Forever, which was originally announced back in 1997. However, Duke Nukem Forever publisher Take-Two did confirmed to Shacknews that it wasn’t funding the project.

“We can confirm that our relationship with 3D Realms for Duke Nukem Forever was a publishing arrangement, which did not include ongoing funds for development of the title,” said Take-Two VP of communications Alan Lewis in a prepared statement.

[3D Realms closing doors, Duke Nukem Trilogy 'unaffected' via GameSpot]