After THQ Nordic acquired the rights to Dead Island 2, they moved the development process to Dambuster Studios. In 2016 it was announced that Sumo Digital was working on this game now. And after that, the unnamed developers were dropped from Dead Island 2 as well.
The developers changed because “Yager and Deep Silver’s respective visions of the project fell out of alignment”( Recently, the footage of Dead Island 2’s Prototype by Yager was leaked as well). Yager was the developer of Dead Island 2 at first, but in 2015 the development of Dead Island 2 was moved to another developer, which the publishers did not announce. So what really happened with Dead Island 2? Let’s start with the development process first because that was the biggest problem with Dead Island 2’s multiple delays Multiple Development Team Changesĭead Island 2 was supposed to release in 2015 originally, but sadly there were many development issues around it. I remember being hyped for Dead Island 2 after watching the announcement trailer in 2014, but after that, the developers just went pure silent.
