Dying Light: The Beast is coming in August with the usual mix of rooftop parkour and zombie blasting

Well Kyle be damned

Zombie survival spin-off Dying Light: The Beast has ground down a release date into powder and injected it straight into your brainstem. It's August 22nd. Oh, there's a new trailer too.

The Beast is releasing as a standalone game, in which you'll reprise the role of the protagonist from the very first game, Kyle Crane. He's out for revenge for reasons I've long since forgotten, but the important bits are that you'll be running across rooftops, bumsliding, and firing guns at zombie faces.

Dying Light: The Beast was announced at Gamescom last year, roughly two years after Dying Light 2 brought players to an undefined European city overrun by gargling punchbags. And a later trailer teased a vague "summer" release window. It was originally supposed to be a piece of DLC, but eventually ballooned into its own game as developers tarted adding more and more bits on top, at least according to director Tymon Smektala in a chat with Gamesradar.

The Dying Light games get a mixed reception at RPS. They lay on their underwhelming stories quite thick, but offer an inviting open world of parkour jiggery-pokery. You're basically planted in a ruined city with a cute day-night cycle gimmick whereby the zombies are sluggish Romero eejits when the sun is up, but horrendous building-leaping speedfreaks when night falls. Slow zombies and fast zombies? Why that sounds like a video game, sir!