Bloodbath Arena is Dead Island's first piece of DLC. Originally scheduled for release a few weeks after Dead Island came out on September 6, it was put on the back-burner so developer Techland could exterminate some of the game's bugs.

Dead Island DLC Bloodbath Arena release date finally set, the blood-bathing begins November 22

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