Techland trademarks "Dead World," declines to comment on Dead Island sequel

[jkipp82]

Dead Island developer Techland filed for a trademark on something called "Dead World" recently, prompting speculation that work on a sequel for the open world zombie RPG was underway.

Techland of course declined to comment on any official news, but the trademark is legit, so we know they're at least working on something.

Dead Island shambled on up the charts when it was released in September, thanks to some nice zombie buzz and that quality trailer (despite a less-than-glowing critical response). A title like "Dead World" hints that the game will take on a slightly larger scale than just an island resort, but of course we'll have to wait and see until the company wants to make any official announcements on another game in the franchise.

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Dead Island developer Techland filed for a trademark on something called "Dead World" recently, prompting speculation that work on a sequel for the open world zombie RPG was underway.

Their game Dead Island is very small (<4GB) compared to other popular games and thus has plenty of room for many more maps as a true World game would require. Traditionally sequels are bigger, badder, and more of what they thought was good in the first. Unfortunately they usually add some weird twist that causes you to relearn what you know. We just have to wait and see.