Blizzard Veteran Founds New studio, Zombie-based MMO Announced

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According to A Talk with Jeff Strain, a Blizzard veteran who founded ArenaNet and was NCsoft's President of Product Development before leaving, he has founded a new studio called Undead Labs and is planning a brand new title about zombies. The zombie-based MMO will be a console MMORPG.



"You look at the name Undead Labs. There's a reason that is unique," he explains. "I'm very specifically setting out to make the best zombie MMO ever. This is what my company does and I wanted the aim of the company to reflect that and I wanted the people that work with me to share that passion for zombies and console games. Another part of it is that I don't intend to be a 300 or 400 person office. I think there are smarter ways to develop MMOs and my goal is to have a studio that can stay nice and small, but still really deliver content at that AAA level... the biggest thing for me -- when a team gets that big -- is the loss of culture, and the loss of identity. I would really like to build a studio that can maintain its spirit over time. It's going to take some very different thinking about production."

Anyhow, I confidently expects to the game.

[Multibocks]

Your first post, hmm... and not so good english.... makes me think you are posting this on every board around the net, but I could be wrong.

[Fursphere]

I'm very specifically setting out to make the best zombie MMO ever.

There's other zombie MMOs out there?

[Fizzler]

There is something about zombies and success. Even the Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice Zombie book was a hit. We love our undead.

[Lyonheart]

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There's other zombie MMOs out there?
rofl..qftw

[lordmythic]

Your first post, hmm... and not so good english.... makes me think you are posting this on every board around the net, but I could be wrong.


QFT my first thoughts exactly

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There's other zombie MMOs out there?
Not so much successful zombie MMOS, I think.
And this is why I'm expecting it.

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Your first post, hmm... and not so good english.... makes me think you are posting this on every board around the net, but I could be wrong.
well,now what do you think of me?

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There is something about zombies and success. Even the Jane Austin Pride and Prejudice Zombie book was a hit. We love our undead.
Undead army is powerful.

[SFbase]

There should be a zombie MMO based on shawn of the dead. All you would do is drink beer, get high, and crack jokes. Hey wait, I don't need a game for that!

[Khatovar]

There should be a zombie MMO based on shawn of the dead. All you would do is drink beer, get high, and crack jokes. Hey wait, I don't need a game for that!

You mean that's not what the maybe-someday-eventually Fallout MMO is all about? Bummer.

[yaki]

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There's other zombie MMOs out there?

There will be, once this one bites a few normal MMOs.

[RobinGBrown]

Technically an MMO thats dead but still moving would be a zombie. so that certainly includes:

EVE
SWG
Everything by Sony
Any others?

[yaki]

Technically an MMO thats dead but still moving would be a zombie. so that certainly includes:

EVE

Did you think or, you know, do anything related to real data before pulling that out of your ass? EVE is rolling in dough, and additionally seeing huge growth over the last year or two.

[Multibocks]

Man I loved the zombie event in WoW. So fucking hilarious. However, console MMO = poop. I'm hoping to be proven wrong though!

Hmm wonder how you would dual-box a console mmo....

[Fursphere]

Did you think or, you know, do anything related to real data before pulling that out of your ass? EVE is rolling in dough, and additionally seeing huge growth over the last year or two.

Right or wrong, the entire game says "GO THE F*** AWAY N00B" when you first start it. My gearscore isn't high enough to even install that game, let along try to play it.

[Multibocks]

lol

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Right or wrong, the entire game says "GO THE F*** AWAY N00B" when you first start it. My gearscore isn't high enough to even install that game, let along try to play it.
lol...it's definitely the polar opposite of WoW's user-friendliness, fo sho.

[Starbuck_Jones]

Sounds like he misses the good old days of a small group of survivors, got voted off the island, and doesnt like the large corperate world where everyone is a zombie.

Yea, all my friends moved away after high school too.

LOL

[Naysayer]

Anyhow, I confidently expects to the game.


rofl