Dead Island 2 Is Back With A New Developer

<p>Dead Island 2 has had quite the development ride with the early disbanding of <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dead-island-2-developer-yager-removed-deep-silver&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Yager on the 15th of July&comma; 2015<&sol;a>&comma; who no longer work on the project&period; Sumo Digital&comma; a private development studio&comma; has stepped in to take over development for the game&period; These guys have worked on games such as LittleBigPlanet 3&comma; Forza Horizon 2&comma; Sonic &amp&semi; All-Stars Racing Transformed so they know their way around game development&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sumo Digital also confirmed the news via Facebook&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dead-island-2-back-new-developer&sol;deadisland2fc&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-101585"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-101585 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03222751&sol;DeadIsland2Fc&period;png" alt&equals;"DeadIsland2Fc" width&equals;"486" height&equals;"296" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The official Dead Island Twitter page also confirmed the news&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dead-island-2-back-new-developer&sol;deadisland2fc&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-101585"><br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;dead-island-2-back-new-developer&sol;deadisland2tw&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-101586"><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-101586 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;03&sol;03222740&sol;DeadIsland2Tw&period;png" alt&equals;"DeadIsland2Tw" width&equals;"596" height&equals;"348" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Koch Media CEO Dr Klemens Kundratitz had the following to say over on MCVUK&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;<span class&equals;"s1">Sumo showed so much understanding of the brand&comma; had creative ideas and an excellent&comma; vision that was aligned with our own&period; <&sol;span><&sol;em><span class&equals;"s1"><em>It just made perfect sense for us to move the project to them&period; We will reveal more details at a later stage&comma; but for now I’d like to say that we are obviously super excited about the progress that we are making with them&period;<&sol;em><&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&&num;8220&semi;It’s an honour to be charged with the evolution of such an important franchise in Deep Silver’s catalogue&comma;” said Sumo COO Paul Porter&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’re looking forward to exceeding fan expectation with an ambitious design that we’re confident will take bone-crunching&comma; visceral&comma; zombie action to a whole new level&period;” &&num;8211&semi; <&sol;em>Koch Media CEO Dr Klemens Kundratitz<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Does this mean we will be seeing a completely different Dead Island 2&quest; How will this title be different from the others after something similar has been released like Dying Light&quest; Let us know what you think in the comments bellow&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;mcvuk&period;com&sol;news&sol;read&sol;sumo-digital-takes-charge-of-dead-island-2&sol;0163785" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">MCVUK<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;facebook&period;com&sol;SumoDigital" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Sumo Digital Facebook<&sol;a>&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;deadislandgame&sol;status&sol;707871252774580225" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Dead island Official Twitter<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;