Spec Ops: The Line earned a reputation as one of the best first-person shooters of its time. Unfortunately, any newcomers may miss out on the game moving forward, as it has mysteriously been delisted from Steam. As spotted by Eurogamer, the Steam Store listing for Spec Ops: The Line has …
Read More »Tencent acquires majority stake in Yager, studio behind ‘The Cycle’
Yager Development, the studio behind Spec Ops: The Line, The Cycle and a cancelled version of Dead Island 2, is now the latest game developer to attract interest from Tencent. Following on from acquiring a minority stake in Remedy Entertainment last month, Tencent has now acquired a majority stake in …
Read More »A playable build of Dead Island 2 has leaked online
Throughout this console generation, Deep Silver has been passing the Dead Island 2 project to multiple developers, with the game seemingly getting stuck in development hell each time. Now, a build of the game from 2015, one year after the game was first announced, has leaked onto the internet. The …
Read More »Dead Island 2 is still on the way, but there is nothing to show yet
At this point, it would be easy to forget that Dead Island 2 was ever announced. At one point, the game was being developed by the folks at Yager with a release date planned for 2015, but publisher Deep Silver pulled the plug, reassigning the project to a new studio. …
Read More »Techland may be up for taking over Dead Island 2 development
Last month, the future of Dead Island 2 was brought in to question after Deep Silver parted ways with the project's developer, Yager. Deep Silver at the time said that it would be finding a new developer for the project, rather than outright cancelling it. Now in an interesting turn, …
Read More »Former Dead Island 2 team files for insolvency
Earlier this month, Deep Silver announced that it would be taking Dead Island 2 back to the drawing board with a new developer, after Yager Productions and the publisher ran in to creative conflicts. Now, the team that spend the last two years working on Dead Island 2 has filed …
Read More »Dead Island 2 developer Yager breaks up with Deep Silver
The publisher of the Dead Island series, Deep Silver, has announced that it has ended its relationship with Dead Island 2's developer, Yager, meaning that the German company will no longer be part of the game's creation. Moving forward Deep Silver plans to announce who will be taking over the …
Read More »Dead Island 2 to offer eight player coop
The original Dead Island was never hailed as the greatest game ever or revolutionary in a way beyond its debut trailer, but it did offer a fun way to slap zombies with your friends. Dead Island 2 on the other hand, is following on from the trend of many games …
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