The build featured a part of the map of California, including a few NPCs with voice action, as well as a 'dev room' containing all the finished weapons and zombies that were to be featured in the game.
In 2020, a basic but playable version of the game was leaked from 2015, when it was still being developed by Yager. In August that year, it was announced by THQ Nordic that Sumo Digital had been removed from the game's development and an internal studio of Deep Silver was put on, Dambuster Studios. However, as of 2019, it's been confirmed that the game is still in development. The game is expected to be delayed far past its previously scheduled " late 2016" release and has since been completely removed from the Steam store. Game studio Sumo Digital announced they had taken over development on March 9th, 2016, but did not mention a release date. Development was suspended from in July 2015 when Yager was dropped from the project due to apparent creative differences. It was first revealed on June 9th, 2014 at Electronic Entertainment Expo 2014. It is the second main entry in the Dead Island series. That was due to the ending of their contract with Deep Silver.Dead Island 2 is an upcoming action role-playing survival horror video game in development by Dambuster Studios and will be published by Deep Silver. Yager Productions, who were in charge of developing Dead Island 2, filled for insolvency recently. Dead Island 2 beta version will first appear on PlayStation 4. The game is expected to be available for PS4, Xbox One and PC. We’re looking forward to exceeding fan expectation with an ambitious design that we’re confident will take bone-crunching, visceral, zombie action to a whole new level”, commented Paul Porter, chief operating officer of Sumo Digital that is in charge of Dead Island 2 development.ĭead Island 2 was first announced back in 2014, during Sony’s E3 press event. “It’s an honour to be charged with the evolution of such an important franchise in Deep Silver’s catalogue.
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Sumo Digital also is working on creating the PC version of Rock Band 4 and cooperating on making Microsoft’s Crackdown 3. The company also worked on games like Forza Horizon 2 Presents Fast & Furious and Disney Infinity 3.0. Sumo Digital made not only such well-known games like Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing and LittleBigPlanet 3. We will reveal more details at a later stage, but for now I’d like to say that we are obviously super excited about the progress that we are making with them”, he added. “It just made perfect sense for us to move the project to them. “Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand had creative ideas and an excellent vision that was aligned with our own,” said chief executive of Deep Silver Klemens Kundratitz. Yager was first working on the development of Dead Island 2 but in July 2015 their partnership with Deep Silver ended due to the differences in the vision of Dead Island 2.ĭeep Silver believes that choosing Sumo Digital as a developer studio for Dead Island 2 made a perfect sense. Sumo Digital is known for such games as LittleBigPlanet 3 and Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed. UK-based studio Sumo Digital will now be working on Dead Island 2 development. Dead Island 2 Development Continues With Sumo Digital