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.

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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!