'The Next Outbreak Is Already Brewing' — It Looks Like We've Got Our First Dead Island 3 Tease

It looks similar enactment connected Dead Island 3 is underway aft a tease was published to observe the series’ 14th anniversary.

In a station connected Steam, developer Dambuster Studios posted the image, below, alongside the caption: “and the adjacent outbreak is already brewing.”

“It's been 14 years since Dead Island archetypal splattered onto the scene, stranding players successful the blood-soaked paradise of Banoi,” the connection continued.

“Since then, the zompocalypse has crawled from tropical shores to the sun-drenched chaos of HELL-A successful Dead Island 2, wherever implicit 20 cardinal Slayers person near thing but carnage behind.

“This isn’t the last chopped though. Dambuster Studios are already carving retired what comes next. For now, the details enactment nether wraps, the outbreak is acold from over…”

Where's helium heading to?

Based connected the image, we tin safely accidental Dead Island 3 volition beryllium acceptable determination different than LA, which stands to reason. But where? Given the idiosyncratic shown successful the representation is hitching a ride, possibly Vegas is simply a earthy stopping disconnected point. But really, it could beryllium anywhere. After all, the archetypal Dead Island was acceptable connected a fictional land concatenation successful Oceania.

Or possibly this is conscionable astir Dead Island 2 DLC, which would travel arsenic rather the astonishment fixed the game’s 2 communicative expansions, Haus and SoLA, person been released.

The hope, of course, is that Dead Island 3 won’t instrumentality rather arsenic agelong arsenic Dead Island 2 did to travel out. The Dead Island 2 that yet launched (and enjoyed immense success) suffered a whopping eight-year hold aft agelong stretches of improvement hell.

In July, Martin Wein, erstwhile caput of communications astatine Dead Island 2 steadfast Deep Silver, talked candidly astir the sequel's troubled development, and however it was decided astatine a large milestone gathering with then-developer Yager that the crippled arsenic it was past "sucked."

Dead Island 2 was revealed astatine E3 2014 but soon went quiescent earlier "mutual differences" separated Yager from Deep Silver. It was past moved to Sumo Digital earlier being shifted again successful 2019 to its last location of Dambuster Studios. A caller trailer and gameplay video was released connected December 6, 2022, during a Dead Island 2 showcase that announced it was delayed erstwhile again, slipping 12 weeks to April 2023.

The question is, erstwhile volition Dead Island 3 beryllium revealed, and erstwhile volition it travel out? Given it’s been implicit 2 years since the merchandise of Dead Island 2, hopefully we’ll spot thing tangible sooner alternatively than later.

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