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DEAD ISLAND 2

FORMAT PS5, PS4 ETA 28 APR PUB DEEP SILVER DEV DAMBUSTER STUDIOS PLAYERS 1

Announced all the way back at E3 2014 with nothing more than a cinematic teaser before becoming stuck in development hell as it was shuffled from one studio to the next, no-one really expected Dead Island 2 to resurface. But it was rerevealed at Gamescom, and we’ve had a chance to get hands-on with its gripping combat and spoken to the developers at Dambuster Studios (who took over the troubled project about four years ago). We now know it’s shaping up to be a gory one-way trip to

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