Undead Labs developing zombie MMO for consoles

November 23, 11:19 AMGames ExaminerDaniel Nations

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Do you love the smell of burning zombie flesh in the morning? If Left 4 Dead 2 and Resident Evil 5 number as two of your favorite games, you're going to like what Seattle-based Undead Labs is cooking up: a zombie MMO.

After all, who needs elves and dragons when you can take on a rotting zombie with a baseball bat and a lawn chair?

Jeff Strain, who was involved with Blizzard's World of Warcraft and NCsoft's Guild Wars, formed Undead Labs in order to pioneer a new breed of MMOs built from the ground up for consoles. And he's committed to building an MMO loaded with both action and humor.

"Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse," said Strain. "The police station or the supermarket? Garden rake or staple gun? Bach or The White Stripes? I'm a game developer, so I'd probably be useless for anything other than ghoul bait, but I'm excited to have the opportunity to build an MMOZ that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure."

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