Unsuprisingly, given its eventful development, delays have continued to blight the luckless project throughout – its launch was recently pushed back again, this time to April 2023 – but, finally, Deep Silver has announced it's ready for a more public showing, saying it'll be “rolling out the bloody red carpet” for a Dead Island 2 showcase on Tuesday, 6th December. Eight months later, British developer Sumo Digital was revealed to have taken over the project, but another studio switch was still to come when Homefront: The Revolution maker Dambuster Studios took the reins in 2019.

Since then, though, development has been turbulent, with the sequel missing its initially announcement 2015 release date and losing its original developer – Spec Ops: The Line studio Yager – that same year. Dead Island 2 was, somewhat unbelievably, initially unveiled all the way back in 2014, promising more of the kind of co-operative zombie shooting action that had made developer Techland's enjoyable 2011 original a bit of a hit.

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