Deep Silver Drops Yager from Dead Island 2 Development
In somewhat of a surprising move, Deep Silver has dropped developers Yager (Spec Ops: The Line) from the development of Dead Island 2 with immediate effect. No exact details were given, but we can only assume that Deep Silver was unhappy with the development progress or there was a difference of opinion on matters. We can only speculate at this time, but hopefully we’ll learn more in the coming months, after all, Deep Silver does have to find a new development team to work with.
In a statement released by Deep Silver, they reassured fans that Dead Island 2 will still happen by saying “We will continue working towards bringing our vision of Dead Island 2 to life, and we will share further information at a later stage.” There was no word however, as to how this predicament would push back the release date of Dead Island 2 (which has already been pushed back to Spring 2016) or who may be taking over the development of the game. You can read the statement in full from Deep Silver below.
After careful consideration, today we announce the decision to part ways with development partner YAGER.
We will continue working towards bringing our vision of Dead Island 2 to life, and we will share further information at a later stage.
However, Yager has also released a statement of their own, which you can find below.
Timo Ullmann, CEO of Yager Group, elaborates: ”Our Yager team is fully committed to the development of AAA quality titles. We work closely with international publishers and partners and have at the same time always remained an independent development studio. Our team is made of the best creative minds and tech specialists who all share a common identity. The team worked with enthusiasm to take Dead Island 2 to a new level of quality. #
However, Yager and Deep Silver’s respective visions of the project fell out of alignment, which led to the decision that has been made. We’ll focus our current efforts on Dreadnought together with Six Foot and our publisher Grey Box as well as on new projects. More details will be disclosed soon. All I can reveal at this point is that gamescom will be awesome for Dreadnought.”
Just as the many fans of Dead Island we sincerely hope that DI2 will shape up to be the great experience everyone has been waiting for.
At EGX last year, I got hands-on with Dead Island 2 and spoke to the developers, and while the game was riddled with bugs, the potential was certainly there.
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