As you can see in the announcement below, the Summer Games Fest hosted by Geoff Keighley will be adding in a showcase from publisher Koch Media next week on June 11. Next Friday at 12 p.m. PT/3 p.m. ET/8 p.m. BST, the publisher will be present at the Summer Games Fest showcase to reveal brand new information about games in its vast publishing library.

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As for what these games could potentially be though, it’s still a bit of a mystery. Koch Media is the publisher for many developers spread out across the world, including the likes of Starbreeze with the upcoming Payday 3, as well as Deep Silver, itself a parent company to developers like Volition, who handle the Saints Row franchise.

It’s hard to really speculate what Koch Media could be announcing, given the unknown states of some of their franchises. For example, the long-gestating Dead Island 2 hasn’t been seen now for some years, and there’s no information to go on about the future of the Saints Row franchise, to name but a few series in the vast library of Koch Media. Metro developer 4A Games recently announced a new game in the Metro series, but it’s unlikely to show up during Koch’s presentation.

The Summer Games Fest officially kicks off next week on June 10, when presenter Geoff Keighley will gather together some of the biggest names in games for a presentation over the course of several days. The likes of Activision, PlayStation, and Xbox will all be present at the showcase in some capacity, and we’ll even be treated to a live performance by Weezer during the opening night on June 10.

Additionally, E3 2021 will be starting shortly after the Summer Games Fest begins that same week. We don’t have too much information to go on about the E3 show for this year right now, which is taking place entirely online, as only a few publishers have revealed they plan to host presentations during the show. The likes of Xbox, Square Enix, and Ubisoft will all be presenting showcase at some point next weekend, but right now we don’t know when, or what, they’ll each be showcasing.

For all the information we have on timings so far, head over to our E3 2021 schedule for more.

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Epic has been providing all kinds of evidence in its legal jousting match with Apple, and there is plenty of juicy information hiding in there if you go digging. One such piece of information (via PC Gamer (opens in new tab)), revealed that one piece of evidence, the “Review of Performance and Strategy” document, makes reference to both Dead Island 2 and an upcoming Saints Row game being Epic Store exclusives. This comes from the same document that revealed Epic had spent nearly $1 billion on securing launch exclusives for its PC gaming storefront.

Dead Island 2 was originally announced back in 2014 and has had numerous development setbacks including several studio switches. It was originally being developed by Techland, the team behind the first Dead Island, before development switched to Yager after Techland decided to focus on Dying Light. In 2015, Yager was pulled from the project and later shut down, with Sumo Digital taking the reins on the project. Finally, development jumped studios once again, with Dambuster Studios taking over the project in 2019. 

You’d be forgiven for thinking Dead Island 2 is never coming out, but publisher Deep Silver has recently confirmed that it’s still on the way. If and when Dead Island 2 does finally get released though, it’s going to be an Epic store exclusive on PC. Since the document is from 2019 and is quite vague on details about the Saints Row game in question, it’s not clear whether it refers to the upcoming Saints Row 5, or the previously released Saints Row 3: Remastered which did launch as an Epic store exclusive in May 2020.

Check out our upcoming PS5 games and upcoming Xbox Series X games articles and try to guess how many of those games will release before Dead Island 2. 

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Original story: Yager is no longer working on Dead Island 2. Publisher Deep Silver, which owns the rights to the franchise, made the announcement in a brief press release on Tuesday.

“With Dead Island 2, Deep Silver has always been dedicated to delivering the sequel that Dead Island fans deserve,” the press release states. “After careful consideration, today we announce the decision to part ways with development partner Yager. We will continue working towards bringing our vision of Dead Island 2 to life, and we will share further information at a later stage.”

Deep Silver didn’t say who it plans to give the project to next, but apparently things just weren’t working out with Yager, otherwise known as the developer of Spec Ops: The Line and Dreadnought. The publisher confirmed in April that Dead Island 2 would miss its spring 2015 release window (opens in new tab) and instead arrive sometime in 2016, though even that later date is in question now.

Delay aside, we haven’t heard much about Dead Island 2 since it was announced at E3 2014. The studio behind the original Dead Island and Dead Island Riptide, Techland, released its own zombie survival successor Dying Light (opens in new tab) in January.

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