Dead Island , the new first-person zombie-RPG slaughterfest that IGN gave an 8.0 is apparently doing well commercially. In fact, it's doing very well.

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This evening, the game's publisher, Deep Silver , sent out a press release informing everyone that the company has shipped over a million copies of the game to retailers in its very first week in North America alone. Two million copies of the game are expected to be shipped worldwide by week's end, according to Deep Silver.It's important to keep in mind that the numbers Deep Silver are using are "shipped to retailer" numbers, and haven't necessarily been sold to consumers yet. However, retailers wouldn't purchase this amount of games if they didn't expect to sell them to customers.