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Dead Island 2 Devs Think 'Development Hell' Wasn't So Bad Actually

  Dead Island 2 , the   zombie RPG that passed through so many hands someone forgot it in the development oven for over a decade, is finally coming out on April 21. This is a week earlier than anticipated, which we love to see. What’s funny, though, is that developer Dambuster Studios is out here saying the game’s development hell gave the studio “quite a lot of goodwill in the end.” In case you forgot,  Dead Island 2  was announced at E3 2014, with work reportedly starting sometime in 2012.  Dying Light  studio Techland was originally set to spearhead the project but wanted to focus on  Dying Light  instead. This led publisher Deep Silver to shop around for a developer to helm  Dead Island 2  until  Spec Ops: The Line  creators Yager Development stepped up to the plate. Yager toiled away on  Dead Island 2  for a few years, with the game making a couple appearances at conventions after being announced in 2014. Unfortunately, Yager didn’t stick. Deep Silver  dropped the studio  in July