Dead Island 2 is still in development, according to a Tweet sent from the official Dead Island account.

Dead Island: Survivors, a free-to-play tower defense game for iOS and Android, officially launched, bringing with it questions about the status of the franchise's long quiet project, Dead Island 2. On the official Dead Island Twitter account, replies to the Survivors release Tweet consisted some of questions as to when/if the game would be headed to Nintendo Switch (No plans), but mostly there were concerns about the status of Dead Island 2.The answers provided some hope for fans of the series;Dead Island 2 appears to still be in development and more details will be revealed at a later date. Officially revealed in 2014, Dead Island 2 was set to release in Spring 2015 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC and would take players "from the iconic Golden Gate to the celebrated beachfront boardwalk of southern California's Venice Beach."Dead Island 2 is said to feature "seamless multiplayer for up to eight players who cooperate, compete or simply coexist in a truly social, new-gen multiplayer experience."Since the reveal at E3 and a showing at Gamescom 2014 that same year, not much more was to be heard from the sequel to 2011's Dead Island. In fact, Dead Island 2 has been a part of our "Big Missing Games of E3" series since 2015.Dead Island: Survivors is being developed by Fishlabs, and sees players taking the role of characters from the series and mixes melee combat and tower-defense gameplay to stop hordes of zombies.

Adam Bankhurst is a freelance writer for IGN and still remembers that awesome trailer for the original Dead Island. You can follow him on Twitter.