‘We have entrusted Dambuster Studios’
The ballad ofJohn and YokoDead Island 2and Deep Silver continues. If you recall the game was actually announced in 2014, with two years of planning preceding it. Since then Techland jumped ship to the more lucrative and much more impressiveDying Lightseries, leaving Deep Silver holding the reins, trying to figure out who was actually going to make this thing they greenlit. Yager Development (ofSpec Ops: The Linefame) got the gig until they didn’t, and were dropped in mid-2015.
Then the always-popular Sumo Digital, who pretty much helps out every major publisher in the world at this point, was in. Then they weren’t. Now Dambuster Studios is the active developer ofDead Island 2, as of this week thanks to info from a THQ financial statement. It’s a blink and you’ll miss it passage, a far cry fromthe video we got from Nintendo regardingMetroid Prime 4‘s shift: “We have entrusted Dambuster Studios with theDead Islandfranchise, bringing the development of this key franchise to one of our internal studios. They are now leading the development ofDead Island 2.”
So who is Dambuster Studios? Well…they worked onHomefront: The Revolution(also known asHomefront 2), which was….alright, kind of. Godspeed,Dead Islandfranchise.
Dead Island 2is due out on PC, PS4, and Xbox One when the Earth is taken over by actual zombies.
