Eight years after its reveal, Dead Island 2 may finally see the light of day

gamesradar.com:

Eight years after its reveal, the long-awaited Dead Island 2 may finally release. The news came out of a Q&A segment of a recent earnings call by publisher Deep Silver and  parent company Embrace Group, with the company’s CEO hinting that Dead Island 2 will likely release during the company’s next fiscal year. For those of you who aren’t accountants, the fiscal year ends on March 21st 2023.

The answer came as part of a slightly cryptic investor Q&A exchange, where a question was asked about the missing in action zombie sequel.

“It very clearly is [still alive]," the Q&A host said, referring to Dead Island 2, before continuing “and I at least expect the release...next financial year..” 

“So, is that reasonable, and what can we expect from a title that has been in development for probably 10 years or so?” added the host.

 “I can’t talk about Dead Island 2 because it’s not announced as such from the publisher,” Embracer CEO Lars Wingefors replied:  “But we have just talked about [that] we have one unannounced AAA title… that you think is Dead Island 2, so it’s hard for me to comment further on that. But I am excited about unannounced titles,”

While this is far from an official confirmation, it spells surprisingly good news for a game that many assumed would never see the light of day. Dead Island 2 was first announced in 2014. After debuting with an eye-catching trailer, no further footage of the game has been seen. The zombie sequel was originally being developer by Spec Ops: The Line creators Yager, before later being handed to Sumo Digital. Unfortunately, it seems Sumo also ran into troubles with the title, with development of the game being handed over a third time, to Homefront: The Revolution creators, Dambuster in