Det er efterhånden meget, meget lang tid siden at vi har hørt noget fra Dead Island 2, udover naturligvis at det har skiftet hænder adskillige gange. Det startede hos Yager, skiftede til Sumo Digital og ligger nu tilsyneladende hos Dambuster Studios, der gav os Homefront: The Revolution.
Et nyt rygte er dog sluppet ud, der tilsyneladende er baseret på en samtale med en af udviklerne på projektet. Denne udvikler sig åbenbart, at udgiver THQ Nordic sigter efter en lancering sammen med de nye konsoller næste år.
"Hey guys, didn't really know where to go to report information like this but I feel like it needs to be put out there somehow. So Dead Island 2 is still in development by THQ Nordic (which we already knew). The new information I learned from a developer on the game is that the team is looking to target a 2020 release to launch alongside the PS5 and Xbox Scarlett. Also, the team is also apparently working on some new gore technology that utilizes "sub polygon displacement". I am in no way an expert on these things but that is what I was told. Finally, as a kind of obvious statement, the team at THQ Nordic does have PS5 dev kits and they do in fact look like the leaks."
Desuden siger denne påståede insider at spillet vil blive afsløret igen ved næste års E3. Tag dog det hele med et gran salt.