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State of Decay 2 preview — What am I doing in this world?

State of Decay 2 looks like it will be a lot of fun to play when it debuts on May 22. But it’s going to be easy to get lost in the open world of the zombie apocalypse.

It isn’t an easy game to write a preview for. I played it at a Microsoft event recently, where I just dropped into the Xbox One version and started fending for myself.

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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.