While Techland has successfully managed to develop a highly successful substitute for their original
Dead Island in the
Dying Light series, the team at Deep Silver (and the company's owner, THQ Nordic) has been struggling with the full-blown sequel to the Techland-created game for quite some time now.
Although it doesn't seem like
Dead Island 2 will hit stores anytime soon (it was supposed to launch back in 2015), it looks like the title is not completely dead, even after losing its first developer (Yager Development) and most definitely its second one (Sumo Digital). According to THQ Nordic CEO Lars Wingefors,
Dead Island 2 is “
still being worked on,” so there's a chance it will be shown at E3 2019.
Rumor has it that Dambuster Studios, the makers of the highly divisive
Homefront: The Revolution, are now taking care of
Dead Island 2, but that particular detail hasn't been officially confirmed just yet.
Considering that it took Techland over five years of troubled development and one full reboot to finish the works on 2011's
Dead Island, the upcoming sequel definitely lives up to its acclaimed zombiefied predecessor – at least when it comes to the pure and never-ending behind-the-scenes drama.
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Dead Island 2 was originally supposed to launch in 2015.