Dead Island 2 shuffles one million sales within three days of launch

Deep Silver and Dambuster Studios announced Dead Island 2 has sold over one million sales worldwide in the first three days of its release.

Dead Island 2 finally launched last Friday, almost nine years after publisher Deep Silver announced it was in development. Since then, it's seen no less than three studios at the helm, but, despite that rocky road to release, its final form – which reached the finish line under the stewardship of Dambuster Studios – has clearly captured the public's imagination.

In its press release announcing Dead Island 2's blast through the 1m sales barrier in just 72 hours, Deep Silver shared a selection of other notable stats. Over the course of those three days since launch, for instance, players have racked up 11m hours of play time, and 28m deaths.

Additionally, 1.1bn zombies have already met their end, 45m of which were sliced in half, with a total of 756m zombie limbs having been detached from their undead owners along the way.