After that it was taken over by sumo digital in 2016 and finally it was taken over by dambuster studios in 2019.
What happened to dead island 2. Yager development initially developed this game. Further reiteration surfaced in july 2018 when the company s official dead island twitter account issued the following. What s going on is that it s in development and we won t be showing more until we re ready. The removal of the dead island 2 steam page has fueled speculation that the long in development zombie killing sequel might be on indefinite hold after switching developers.
The xbox one and ps4 were hitting their stride with games like shadow of mordor destiny and dark souls 2. Just months after dead island 2 faced its first delay deep silver decided to fire the developer from the project in july 2015. Created by dambuster studios dead island 2 is an action role playing game and is a sequel to dead island which was released in 2011. The game s main storyline is set several months after the events of dead island and escape dead island.
Dead island 2 was set to be their biggest project yet and with the cult adoration of spec ops it looked as if the game was in safe hands. Following a gameplay trailer reveal at gamescom 2014. Dead island 2 is an upcoming action role playing game developed by dambuster studios and published by deep silver for microsoft windows playstation 4 and xbox one it is the sequel to the 2011 video game dead island and the third major installment in the dead island series. With dead island 2 deep silver has always been dedicated to delivering the sequel that dead island fans deserve announced the publisher.
A replacement was not named at the time. After careful consideration today we announce the decision to part ways with development partner yager.