High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dead Nation is a shoot `em up video game for PlayStation 3 developed by a Finnish video game company Housemarque. It was released on November 30, 2010 in North America, and December 1 in Europe, on PlayStation Network.Dead Nation takes place in a fictional world afflicted by a zombie apocalypse. The player can play as a male or female character and fight different types of zombies. Dead Nation was one of the games given by Sony as part of their `Welcome Back` package because of the PlayStation intrusion.