Dead Island 3 Due Out First Half of 2028, All Developers at Dambuster Studios Now Working on It

We person caller authoritative accusation connected Dead Island 3, which is not lone present confirmed to beryllium successful development, but has a people merchandise window.

In a fiscal study spotted by X / Twitter idiosyncratic @bogorad222, the Plaion-owned UK developer Dambuster Studios said its superior absorption is present Dead Island 3. This is the archetypal clip we’ve heard Dead Island 3 mentioned successful immoderate authoritative capacity, though the workplace had teased it earlier this year.

Dambuster Studios' fiscal statements are retired (as of March 2025)
The institution employed 194 employees
Dead Island 3 is successful development
The existent predicted merchandise model for the task is Q1/2 2028 pic.twitter.com/FOHOitH3nD

The study mentions that each Dambuster’s developers are present connected Dead Island 3, and erstwhile the Luna and Mac versions of Dead Island 2 are implicit each of Dambuster's QA squad volition besides determination implicit to Dead Island 3. As of the extremity of March 2025, Dambuster had 194 employees.

“Parts of the crippled are present successful aboriginal accumulation with feature, character, satellite and communicative plan moving astatine pace,” the study continues. And here’s wherever things get truly interesting: we adjacent person a “current predicted merchandise window” of Q1/2 2028. So, arsenic things stand, Dead Island 3 is owed retired by the extremity of June 2028.

The beingness of Dead Island 3 shouldn’t travel arsenic overmuch of a surprise. In September, Dambuster posted the image, below, alongside the caption: “and the adjacent outbreak is already brewing.”

Dead Island 3 is coming.

“It's been 14 years since Dead Island archetypal splattered onto the scene, stranding players successful the blood-soaked paradise of Banoi,” the connection continued.

“Since then, the zompocalypse has crawled from tropical shores to the sun-drenched chaos of HELL-A successful Dead Island 2, wherever implicit 20 cardinal Slayers person near thing but carnage behind.

“This isn’t the last chopped though. Dambuster Studios are already carving retired what comes next. For now, the details enactment nether wraps, the outbreak is acold from over…”

Based connected the image, we tin safely accidental Dead Island 3 volition beryllium acceptable determination different than LA, which stands to reason. But where? Given the idiosyncratic shown successful the representation is hitching a ride, possibly Vegas is simply a earthy stopping disconnected point. But really, it could beryllium anywhere. After all, the archetypal Dead Island was acceptable connected a fictional land concatenation successful Oceania.

If Dead Island 3 does travel retired the archetypal fractional of 2028, it’ll get 5 years aft Dead Island 2, which itself suffered agelong periods of improvement hellhole earlier yet enjoying important success. Dead Island 2 was revealed astatine E3 2014 but soon went quiescent earlier "mutual differences" separated Yager from Deep Silver. It was past moved to Sumo Digital earlier being shifted again successful 2019 to its last location of Dambuster Studios. A caller trailer and gameplay video was released connected December 6, 2022, during a Dead Island 2 showcase that announced it was delayed erstwhile again, slipping 12 weeks to April 2023.

The question is, erstwhile volition we get our archetypal look astatine Dead Island 3? Perhaps 2026 volition bring a teaser trailer.

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