There’s still no Half-Life 3, Left 4 Dead 3, Team Fortress 3, or Portal 3, but at least we got Artifact! Hello? LawBreakersġ3. Valve have released precisely three games: Artifact, Dota Underlords, and Half-Life: Alyx, a VR only game.
Cliff Bleszinski came out of retirement to form Boss Key, developed two failures that deserved better and then seems to have retired again with Boss Key closing. Nintendo released the Switch in 2017 and have hit huge numbers once again. The Wii U bombed, though you probably saw that coming in 2014 anyway. It was also reimagined in 2017 with Assassin’s Creed Origins and will now become a live service with the groan-inducing Assassin’s Creed Infinity because games just stopped appreciating your time after 2014.
Assassin’s Creed has seen 18 new games, including spin-offs and mobile entries. They’ve more or less withdrawn entirely from AAA publishing and development, nowadays only porting Castlevania to anything with a pulse and releasing PES every year. Konami, if you couldn’t tell, haven’t been enjoying their best years from a public opinion perspective since 2014. Oh and it did also get a pachinko machine, because why are we still here? Just to suffer?Ĩ. Metal Gear Solid has been on ice with Kojima’s departure, though they did release the awful Metal Gear Survive using the same engine and gameplay framework without any of Kojima’s involvement. Kojima eventually left Konami to form Kojima Productions and release Death Stranding starring Norman Reedus and the energy drink brand Monster.ħ. Obviously we’re not allowed neat things, so the game was cancelled. Hideo Kojima and Konami seemingly fell out in a big way, with the auteur’s name being scrubbed from box art for Metal Gear Solid V and him not being allowed to collect an award, partly as punishment for P.T., a sneaky Silent Hills demo that has gone down in horror legend and was also scrubbed from the PlayStation Store. But it did get a pachinko machine, cos sometimes you just have to hit the lever.Ħ. Umbrella Corps was bottom of the barrel stuff, while Village, 7, and the remakes of 2 and 3 have more or less made everyone obsessed with the franchise again. There’s been seven Resident Evil games that represent the worst and best in the series. They went into insolvency as a result of them being booted off Dead Island 2 but now seem to be doing okay.Ĥ. Yager, the original developers for the sequel, released Dreadnought in 2017 and The Cycle in 2019. They quietly left the project in 2019 to be replaced by Dambuster.ģ. Meanwhile, Sumo Digital, the development team in charge before current developers Dambuster, have worked on 8 different games, including Sackboy: A Big Adventure and Team Sonic Racing, since they were drafted in to work on Dead Island 2.
Techland, the developers of the original Dead Island, released Dying Light in 2015, a substantial DLC called The Following in 2016, and are currently hard at work on Dying Light 2 after half a decade of supporting the original Dying Light with free DLC and updates.Ģ. Here’s just some of the major things that have happened in the world since Dead Island 2 was first revealed all those years ago.ġ. Seven years is a long time, and it’s almost certainly going to be even longer for Dead Island 2 to actually come out - if it does at all. It seems that the Dead Island franchise is now paying the price for making everyone cry from a misleading yet still incredible trailer as it’s hard to shake the feeling that the whole thing is cursed, even if Escape Dead Island is enough suffering for one series. Considering it was first unveiled over years ago now, we have very little to go off, save for some early gameplay trailer footage that’s now redundant, as well as a leaked gameplay slice in 2020 from its original developers that is outdated by at least half a decade.ĭead Island 2 has had three different developers, starting off with Yager before they were removed by Deep Silver in 2015, then Sumo Digital from March 2016 until 2019 when it was revealed that Dambuster of Homefront: The Revolution infamy were assigned the unenviable task of making Dead Island 2 instead.ĭead Island 2’s development has been so protracted, in fact, that this very site was barely a thing when it was first revealed, us covering its trailer being reversed like the classic trailer for the first Dead Island. Since being revealed in 2014 at Sony’s E3 briefing, Dead Island 2 has remained one of the biggest enigmas in all of gaming.