Publisher Deep Silver has announced that Dead Island: Epidemic, the next game in the open-world zombie series, is a multiplayer online battle arena title that will be free-to-play on Windows PC.
Three teams of players will compete to survive the zombie onslaught and according to Deep Silver, the game will "feature all the trademark elements that are a part of a Dead Island experience."
More details about the game will be announced at Gamescom later this month. No release date is currently known for Epidemic.