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Dead Island 2’s new SoLA expansion introduces players – sorry, Slayers – to a whole new side of Hell-A: an all-American festival where the stage is set for some of the game’s most gruesome zombie slaughter yet. The crowds of rotting, shambling festivalgoers will provide endless zombie-slaying hits, but where would any festival be without its headline acts?

Now is the perfect time to buy on Steam, and the window of opportunity isn't going to last forever. As a long-delayed sequel to a 2011 zombie-slaying hit, in 2023 after being passed around from developer to developer for years. Despite these troubles, however, the game released to a generally positive critical reception, accurately recapturing the mindless appeal of the original with just enough updates to flesh out systems that could feel unsatisfying in its predecessors.

Dead Island 2 is finally available on Steam as of today, April 22. Its arrival on Valve's storefront has been highly anticipated by the fandom, as underlined by the fact that Dead Island 2 is already listed as the best-selling game on the platform.

Dead Island: Riptide has been seeing a major uptick in player count on Steam as of late. The 11-year-old Dead Island spin-off has received a new surge in players, who have begun to breathe some new life into Dead Island: Riptide.

Exactly one year after its successful 2023 launch, Dead Island 2 is finally looking to make its arrival on Steam later this month, on April 22. This news comes just weeks after Dead Island 2 revealed key details of its second story DLC, titled SoLA, a southern LA music festival romp set for April 17.

Dead Island 2’s second DLC expansion, SoLA, is going to be released on April 17th, Deep Silver has announced. The new content will take players to the the one of the biggest music festivals in California, whose soundtrack has changed from raving beats to the sounds of the undead. The content includes the new location, a new enemy types, and new legendary weapons.

Dead Island 2 has revealed that its second story DLC, titled SOLA Festival, is ready to drop next month. The first-person zombie slaughtering adventure released its first DLC, Haus, back in November. Dead Island 2 recently shared on Twitter that players collectively killed more than 66 million zombies in its popular Haus DLC.

Much to the surprise of fans,Dead Island 2 released on Xbox Game Pass earlier today, but is only available to Ultimate members on consoles. This is likely due to Dead Island 2's PC edition being exclusive to the Epic Games Store until later this year.

, one of the most highly-anticipated games of the last decade, is now available on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. Released in April 2023, the zombie-fueled RPG continues the long-dormant series' tradition of blending action and gore on the beach, however, with so many other major releases throughout 2023, the game didn't quite receive the attention it arguably deserves. While may have been in development for close to a decade, critics widely praised its satisfying, if simple, gameplay loop as well as the visceral gore engine that turned every encounter into a bloodbath.

Dead Island 2 is now on Game Pass.

Surprise! Dead Island 2 has popped up as part of the Xbox Game Pass subscription, despite not being listed by Microsoft when it revealed a list of late February Xbox Game Pass titles earlier this week.

Publisher Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Studios will release the PC version of Dead Island 2 via Steam on April 22, the companies announced.

When Dead Island 2 launched last year, on PC, it did so as an Epic Games Store exclusive, but with the game approaching its one-year anniversary, that exclusivity window is set to end- which, of course, means it will soon be free to release on other PC storefronts. More specifically, on Steam.

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The first paid expansion for Dambuster Studios’Dead Island 2, Haus, is now available for Xbox Series X/S, PS5, PS4, Xbox One and PC. It’s set within a strange new location in Malibu called, well, Haus, where the Kult, led by the billionaire Konstantin, resides. Check out the launch trailer below to see its bizarre occurrences first-hand.

The first Dead Island 2 expansion pass DLC is now here, but starting it can be a little confusing. Here's how to start the Haus DLC.

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's publisher Deep Silver and developer Dambuster Games have revealed the game's first story expansion,. The expansion will see players venture to a completely new post-apocalyptic area to deal with a mysterious cult and will include completely new weapons and skill cards to aid them on this mission.

The first story expansion for Dead Island 2 is coming out in just a few weeks, with Dambuster Studio and publisher Plaion confirming that Haus will release on 2nd November.

It includes a brand-new storyline.

Dambuster Studios has confirmed that Dead Island 2’s first story expansion, Haus, will be released on November 2nd. It sees the Slayers investigating a “techno-death cult” helmed by a secret billionaire Konstantin. It’s considered the “paragon of a new future,” but there are plenty of undead threats to cull.

Considering the delays that haunted the title for years, Dambuster Studios’ Dead Island 2 is a pretty good experience, selling over two million as of May 24th. Additional content via two expansion packs –Haus and SOLA Festival – is in development. However, there seems to be a new mode on the way.