Borderlands has yet to hit store shelves. But, that hasn’t stopped its developer, Gearbox, from announcing its first episode of downloadable content, “Zombie Island of Dr. Ned” – which seems to have more of a Halloween “niche” then anything else.

As planned to be “the first in a series” of downloadable content for Borderlands, Zombie Island of Dr. Ned will set you back a total of $10 on all three platforms, including PlayStation 3, PC and Xbox 360. Here’s the description:

“Tasked with keeping the workers of Jakobs Cove alive, Dr. Ned (who is not related to Dr. Zed from Fyrestone) does his job a little too well, creating zombies and other abominations that now run rampant in this region. Players will have to work alongside Dr. Ned as they embark on a quest to cure the inhabitants of Jakobs Cove in this full-fledged expansion filled with new enemies, new quests and rare loot drops.”

Having not played Borderlands, this seems like a huge risk for the developers over at Gearbox because no one knows if the game is good, or bad. However, from the looks of things, it seems that Borderlands is more good then anything else. With that said, Zombie Island of Dr. Ned is do out “later this year”.

What do you know… According to EuroGamer, Keiji Inafune, Capcom R&D kingpin, has confirmed that Dead Rising 2 features multiplayer, despite rumors at GDC saying that it wouldn’t.

“We’re at a point in game history that you need to have some form of multiplayer component in a game,” Inafune told journalists at Captivate 09 in Monaco last week.

“Single-player alone is not going to cut it. So rest assured we are going to put multiplayer in the game, but I can’t go into specifics about what type of multiplayer as that directly relates to some of the game systems that we don’t want to talk about at this event. It will be online multiplayer, so keep that in mind.”

Any fan of the first Dead Rising would know that it was great, but not because of its controls, or even Otis. But, because it featured a huge zombie horde on-screen at the same time.

And following in the foot steps of the first game, the sequel promises to feature a even bigger zombie horde on-screen.

When speaking at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Izmeth Siddeek, who is a developer from Blue Castle Games, revealed that, “Dead Rising 2′ deal[s] with the rendering of the greatest number of characters ever seen in a video game. Everything else needed to be subordinated to this requirement”.

Easily said, am I right? When he continue talking about the game, he revealed that they are “preparing to have as many as 6000 characters on the screen”.

[Dead Rising 2′ Is Supposed To Have Most Characters Ever… 6000? [GDC 2009] via MTV]

Lets face it, Left 4 Dead is a really great game. That’s why Valve was way beyond candid on revealing its latest sales mark reached.

Today, at Valve’s GDC presentation, it was revealed that their cooperative zombie shooter Left 4 Dead has now surpassed the 2.5 million copies sold mark since its November debut, which Michael Booth revealed today.

Valve has also revealed that the sales tally as PC and Xbox 360 sales, and they don’t count digital distribution sales.

A YouTube video has hit the web proclaiming that it’s the Dead Rising 2 trailer and guys close to Capcom have confirmed that is this the real deal.

I had a chance to contact a rep from Capcom and nothing can be ‘officially said’ because they cannot confirmed anything just yet. But, from this video we can find out some  information about Dead Rising 2.

The video has a reference to a drug that turns out ‘to almost be complete effective’ against the outbreak. Anyway, the video then moves to a casino it shows Isabella Keyes from the first game pushing a giant hamster ball, which they say is a new weapon from in the game.

However, if the video is true, it appears to confirm that Dead Rising 2 will be set in Las Vegas because of the casino parts of the trailer, but as of now, one can only wait and see.