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Monday19th Feb 2024
News Biggest Dying Light 2 Update Yet Has a PS5, PS4 Reloaded Edition
Base game, Bloody Ties DLC, and new guns patch
An upcoming Dying Light 2 update is said to be so significant that Techland has decided to tie it in with a new Reloaded Edition of the game for PS5, PS4. Available on the PS Store from 22nd February 2024, the Reloaded Edition bundles the base game and its Bloody Ties DLC together, then includes a fresh...
Friday29th Sep 2023
News Techland Flaunts Surprisingly Robust Dying Light 2 Content Roadmap
"Our work on Dying Light 2 never stops"
Developer Techland is still churning out Dying Light 2 content as part of a pledge to support the game for years to come. It was only a few months ago that the meaty Good Night, Good Luck update was released, so this is quite surpris
Thursday29th Jun 2023
News Dying Light 2's PS5, PS4 'Good Night, Good Luck' Update Brings Darker Nights and New Terrors
Don't turn out the lights
Dying Light 2 is getting something of a nightmarish facelift, with the simple experience of venturing outside at night getting a drastic overhaul. The 'Good night, Good Luck' update will make nights darker and infected Volatiles more prevalent, alongside parkour improvements and a whole bunch more. We got an update trailer,...
Friday21st Apr 2023
News What New Zombie Game? Dying Light 2's Gut Feeling Update Is Out Today
Slay together for the kids
Dying Light 2's huge Gut Feeling update is out today, directly competing for the hearts and minds of gamers with Dead Island 2, the other big first-person zombie-slaying franchise on the market. In addition to overhauling the game's melee mechanics and physics (including a focus on dismemberment which seems like a direct...
Monday27th Mar 2023
News Dying Light 2 Major Update Improves Combat System, Adds Transmog on 20th April
Dressed to kill
Dying Light 2's visceral combat system is getting an upgrade in the game's next update, which adds that and more when it drops on PS5 and PS4 on 20th April. Combat will be enhanced to feel more impactful, with developer Techland stating these upgrades will be "significant" and will make combat even more "brutal". In addition, a...
Wednesday1st Feb 2023
News Dying Light Series Ships 30 Million, Dying Light 2 Support Detailed on First Anniversary
You've got red on you
Techland has announced that the Dying Light franchise has moved an impressive 30 million units franchise-wide. The news comes on the first anniversary of the studio's most recent title, the post-apocalyptic survival game Dying Light 2, and details of the content to come in Year 2 have been revealed. In the short term, changes...
Friday11th Nov 2022
News Dying Light 2's Bloody Ties DLC Introduces a Whole New World of Hurt
What we do in life echoes in eternity
Dying Light 2: Stay Human's latest DLC offering is now available, introducing an entirely new story-driven adventure which will see players venturing to the former opera building Carnage Hall, which has now been repurposed as a blood-soaked arena for post-apocalyptic gladiatorial combat. With new quests, weapon...
Saturday8th Oct 2022
News PS Plus Premium Adds Three-Hour Dying Light 2 Trial on PS5, PS4
Not dead yet
A three-hour trial for open world zombiefest Dying Light 2 has just been added to PS Plus Premium, on both PS5 and PS4. As with any other trial on the service, the clock only counts down when you're actually in the game, so this three hour time limit is fairly generous. Dying Light 2 is quite a meaty release — it takes over 20 hours...
Thursday22nd Sep 2022
News Dying Light 2 Bloody Ties Expansion Delayed a Month to November
For the sake of polish
Dying Light 2's first proper expansion, titled Bloody Ties, has had its release date been pushed back about a month. It was originally set to launch on the 13th October, but now it'll drop on the 10th November. Why? So that developer Techland can smooth things out, of course. The Polish studio made the delay official on...
Wednesday24th Aug 2022
News Shed Blood for Fame and Glory in Dying Light 2's Bloody Ties DLC
Those who are about to die salute you
Teased last week, Dying Light 2's Bloody Ties DLC was fully revealed during the Gamescom Opening Night Live stream. It will be available for PS5 and PS4 on 13th October, adding gladiatorial combat to the game. Bloody Ties will see players venturing to the repurposed Carnage Hall, once a famed opera concert, whi
Wednesday17th Aug 2022
News Dying Light 2 DLC Teased, Full Reveal at Gamescom
Bloody Ties
The Gamescom Opening Night Live teases are coming thick and fast today as Geoff Keighley confirms the first piece of paid Dying Light 2 DLC, named Bloody Ties, will be part of next week's show. A short teaser trailer has been released — which you can catch above — and much more will be shown during the live show on Tuesday 23rd...
Friday1st Jul 2022
News Paint the City Red During Dying Light 2's Bloody Summer Event, Live Now
Sever limbs, earn rewards!
Dying Light 2's Bloody Summer event is live right now, and you can paint The City red... literally. Developer Techland is looking to liven things up, from 30 June to 7 July, by drastically increasing the chance of limbs being severed, heads being decapitated, and bodies being bisected. If that wasn't reason enough to...
Tuesday14th Jun 2022
News Dying Light 2's Update 1.4.0 is the First Step on a Planned Five-Year Free Content Roadmap
Dying Light 2 to be supported into 2027
Developer Techland has announced Dying Light 2's Update 1.4.0 will be just the first part of a planned five years worth of free content for players, which means the title will be supported into the incredibly futuristic-sounding year 2027. Update 1.4.0 is now live, and it brings with it many quality-of-life...
Friday13th May 2022
News First Dying Light 2 DLC Now Arriving in September
More free content in the meantime
The first piece of major Dying Light 2 DLC is now slated for September, a post-launch content roadmap from Techland confirms. It sees the initial story-focused expansion pushed back by a few months for more polish, but in its place will be further free content including a Photo Mode, community events, and general...
Wednesday27th Apr 2022
News Dying Light 2 Patch 1.3 Out Now, Adds New Game+, FOV Slider, Adjusts Gameplay, More
Not dead yet
As promised, there's a new Dying Light 2 update available to download right now on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4. Patch 1.3 is the sandbox title's most significant update yet, the headline act being the addition of New Game+, which lets you play through the campaign again with your character progression intact. It sounds like...
Friday22nd Apr 2022
News Dying Light 2 Sells Five Million in First Month, Content Reveal Next Week
Includes community requested features
Techland has announced Dying Light 2 sold five million copies in its first month of availability across all platforms. The game came out on 4th February 2022, so it's now been out for close to three months. As a result, overall sales are more than likely much higher now. The publisher also revealed the original...
Wednesday6th Apr 2022
News Dying Light 2 Getting New Game+ at the End of This Month
Plus more fixes
Techland will patch a New Game+ mode into Dying Light 2 at the end of April as part of the game's third update. Details as to what will carry over haven't been shared, but it's assumed your gear, skills, and level will all be accessible from the start of a second playthrough. Also included in the patch will be "many fixes" for single...
Tuesday15th Mar 2022
News More Parkour Challenges Heading to Dying Light 2 Soon
Flying Scorpion available now
One of the best things about Techland's Dying Light 2 is its parkour, so it's only right that the Nightrunner Trials make up some of the most enjoyable side content in the game. There were a decent number of them back at launch in February 2022, and the Polish developer is adding more very soon. In fact, one of them is...
Monday7th Feb 2022
News UK Sales Charts: Dying Light 2 Sells Best on PS5, But Misses Top Spot
54 per cent of physical sales for PS5 version
Our coverage of the weekly UK sales charts has been somewhat unreliable over the past month, which is representative of how few talking points it generally brings to the table. Without digital sales taken into account, the stats can only tell us so much. Still, Dying Light 2 was the biggest release last...
Friday21st Jan 2022
News These Are Dying Light 2's Graphical Options on PS5
Raytracing! Resolution! Framerate!
Phwoar, it’s a looker! Dying Light 2 launches early next month on the PlayStation 5, and it’s a stunner to say the least. As has become common with most new-gen releases, there’ll be a number of visual configurations for you to flit between at launch, including a quality option with ray-tracing and a full 4K...
Thursday20th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Has Found More Really Big Numbers to Boast About
The script sounds huge
If you're not playing Dying Light 2 for 500 hours, you will instead be reading 350,000 words and listening to 40,000 lines of dialogue. That's right: Techland has found a few other very big numbers it can boast about on social media, this time relating to the upcoming game's script. For comparison's sake, Skyrim has 60,000...
Monday17th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Trophies Revealed, Find Collectibles and Max Stats
Just beware of spoilers
Dying Light 2 is just a few weeks away from its PlayStation 5 and PS4 launch, meaning it's now time for us all to work out how we're going to unlock its Platinum Trophy. The complete list of digital gongs is now available for viewing over on Exophase, but we advise exercising some caution: the first handful of Trophies...
Friday14th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Dev Promises a Whopping 5 Years of Updates and DLC After Release
Till death do us part
Good lord, Techland doesn't shy away from making impressive-sounding promises, does it? The Polish developer raised eyebrows last week when it stated that Dying Light 2 would take 500 hours to "fully complete" — something that the studio had to clarify just a couple of days later. And now, Techland's saying that Dying Light 2...
Thursday13th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Shares Brief Look at PS4 Console Footage, Looks Good
More gameplay coming soon
The Cyberpunk 2077 console catastrophe has put fans of upcoming games on edge a little when they see titles shown off using PC footage instead of the system they'll actually be playing on. That's understandable, so in the case of Dying Light 2 at least, Techland has shared a brief glimpse at what the open world zombie game...
Monday10th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Completion Time Further Clarified, 20 Hours to Beat Story
80 hours for all optional content
What a kerfuffle this has turned out to be. Dying Light 2 developer Techland faced a bit of a backlash over the weekend when it proudly claimed it would take 500 hours to complete its latest open world zombie title. At the time, the Polish studio quickly issued a follow-up tweet explaining that's how long it would...
Saturday8th Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Takes 500 Hours to 'Fully Complete', Official Twitter Has to Clarify
Wait, what?
Does a 500-hour game sound like a good time to you? If the answer is yes, then you might want to check out Dying Light 2 next month. If your answer is no, then you'll be wondering what the heck developer Techland was thinking with this weekend tweet: Yep, Dying Light 2 is apparently 500 hours long — but only if you want it to be...
Monday3rd Jan 2022
News Dying Light 2 Will Have Plenty of Gear on PS5, PS4
Loadout builder
Dying Light 2: Staying Alive feels like the forgotten February release, sandwiched between juggernauts like Elden Ring and Horizon Forbidden West – but the original co-op zombiethon was a huge hit for Polish developer Techland, and we certainly wouldn’t rule out its sequel from repeating that success. Delays have definitely...
Thursday9th Dec 2021
News Dying Light 2 Shambles into View at The Game Awards
Dying to see it?
Dying Light 2 has been a long time coming, announced all the way back in 2018, but it's now finally on the approach. Techland's open world zombie survival sequel has gone gold and is ready to roll out in February. You want to see a little more of the game before then, though, right? Don't worry — Geoff Keighley's got your back...
Tuesday30th Nov 2021
News Dying Light 2 Finally Goes Gold Ahead of February 2022 Release Date
Light in the dark
Several delays down the line and Dying Light 2 has finally gone gold, meaning that it's ready to ship. The open world, zombie-bashing RPG is set to release on the 4th February, which gives developer Techland a bit of time to prepare for the big day. If you're a Dying Light fan, then this news will likely prompt a sigh of relief...
Saturday27th Nov 2021
News Dying Light 2 Won't Infect Much of Your PS5's SSD
Dead good
The trend of smaller-than-expected file sizes on the PlayStation 5 continues, with Dying Light 2: Stay Human weighing in at just 21GB. This is pre-patch so could bloat come its delayed 4th February launch, but is obviously quite small for a major AAA open world game. Sony’s vaunted Kraken compression technology has been generally driving...
