After years and years of delays, the zombie game finally goes gold.

Instead, publisher Deep Silver has announced the action-RPG will launch one week earlier on April 21, 2023.

To reinforce this date,Deep Silver tweetedthat Dead Island 2 has gone gold as well.

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So this rearrangement helps shorten that delay.

But since then,the game has seen multiple delays and even switched studio hands a few times.

Techland, who was behind the first game and the Dying Light series, isn’t making this sequel.

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Spec Ops: The Line’s Yager Development was creating Dead Island 2 at one point.

But then Little Big Planet 3 maker Sumo Digital took over the project.

That team didn’t last in the end, either.

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Dambuster Studios is now behind the zombie game, previously creating Homefront: The Revolution.

For more, be sure to check outeverything we know about Dead Island 2.

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