This is a good time for fans of Dead Island . After the advertisement/confirm a Definitive Edition containing the first chapter and expansion Riptide , coming good news the second chapter, whose troubled development had made him fear the worst for all fans of the saga.

Dating back to July 2015, the News that the development had been arrested, and that the producer Deep Silver had "fired" the team Yager Productions ( Spec-Ops The Line ) from the processing of the game, ostensibly because of a poor product quality. After months of silence has finally come the ad that the development will resume, and that will take care of the study English Sumo Digital ( Disney, Infinity , Littlebig Planet and old-gen version of Forza Horizon 2 ).

"Sumo Digital has shown they understand the brand, has a lot of creative ideas and has excellent vision on the project," said the CEO of Koch Media , Dr. Klemens Kundratitz , adding " as soon as we knew we were the right people, we had to entrust the project to them. Soon we will reveal other details, but for now we can tell you that we are very excited about the work we are doing with them! ".

Meanwhile, Sumo Digital through the words of COO Paul Porter said that " it is an honor for us to work in a franchise so important by Deep Silver. We look forward to exceeding the expectations of fans with the ambitious zombie action game that we want to achieve ".

This is the second investment in England by Deep Silver , after Homefront: The Revolution , from which you can appreciate the courage to entrust important franchise to emerging European development studios. For now there was no more news about the resurrected Dead Island 2 , but we invite you to visit our pages for any developments.