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Dying Light 2 takes us into the ‘modern dark ages’

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Good night, and good luck. That was the tagline of Dying Light, Techland’s open-world zombie game from 2015.

And now, Techland is back with Dying Light 2. This is one of the rare surprises of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the big game trade show in Los Angeles. Chris Avellone, a seasoned role-playing game writer, showed the game off at Microsoft’s Xbox event ahead of E3.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.