Dead Island 2 might well be closing in on the record for the longest wait for a sequel in history. For players who have been anticipating its arrival for almost a decade, Dambuster Studios has announced a showcase for the new game that will air on December 6, 2022.

“We're rolling out the bloody red carpet for our Dead Island 2 Showcase on December 6th,” the announcement reads. The attached invite refers to players as “Twitter Slayers” and also promises whatever the showcase has in store will feature “action, gore, and zombies”. The very least players would come to expect from the Dead Island series.

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Dambuster actually hinted at the showcase last week when it revealed Dead Island 2 has been delayed yet again. Acknowledging the irony of pushing back the release date of a game that was supposed to be here eight years ago, the studio revealed the next game in the series will now launch at the end of April next year rather than the beginning of February. No specific reason as to why, but the increasingly crowded February release slate might have something to do with it.

Had Dambuster moved forward as planned with Dead Island 2's February arrival, the sequel would have been competing with the likes of the Dead Space Remake, launching at the end of January, and potentially even the PS VR2 which PlayStation has now confirmed will be available in February. Dead Island 2 is currently the only game confirmed to be launching in April 2023, and it'll have a couple of weeks to occupy players' time before Tears of the Kingdom arrives.

Dead Island 2's devs have already made it clear they're hopeful the sequel will be one of the goriest games ever made, so expect to see evidence of that during next month's showcase. That'll be a title that's hard to lay claim to so soon after the arrival of The Calisto Protocol which will have plenty of blood and gore of its own.

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