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Techland shows day-and-night zombie killing (with a sledgehammer) in Dying Light

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Video game maker Techland recently showed off a cool combat demo on the PlayStation 4 from its upcoming Dying Light. In the open-world zombie game, you can fight the undead during both the daytime and the night.

A crowd of zombies in Dying Light
A crowd of zombies in Dying Light.

The zombies are somewhat easy to beat in the day, but they become powerful hunters, aided by other kinds of monsters, at night. But, as the protagonist, you’re quite capable too, and you can show off athletic parkour skills against the undead horde.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.