Undead Labs
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| Industry | Computer and video games |
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| Founded | 2009 |
| Headquarters | Seattle, Washington, USA |
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Key people
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Jeff Strain (Founder) |
| Products | State of Decay |
| Website | www.undeadlabs.com |
Undead Labs is an American Seattle, Washington-based game development studio, which was founded in 2009 by Jeff Strain, a former Blizzard employee and one of the co-founders of ArenaNet.
Undead Labs was founded in 2009 by Jeff Strain, with the sole focus on zombie based games. On February 3, 2011 Undead Labs announced that they were partnering with Microsoft Game Studios to publish their games on the Xbox 360 and now also the Xbox One. This decision was made after most of the other publishers who showed interest in the games was requesting what they described as "World of Warcraft clones". The first game State of Decay was released on the Xbox 360 on June 5, 2013 and on Microsoft Windows on November 5, 2013. The game will act as a way to publicize their title more and also allow gamers to submit feedback to help tweak and refine the gameplay for their MMO codenamed Class4 which will likely be released on Xbox One and PC.
On January 11, 2014 it was announced that Undead Labs has signed a multi-year, multi-title agreement with Microsoft Studios. Jeff Strain stated that the first State of Decay was "just the start of (Undead Labs') long-term ambitions", and spoke of many future titles potentially entering the franchise.
State of Decay (formerly Class3) is an open world zombie survival horror game, but unlike games such as Left 4 Dead and Dead Island, State of Decay focuses more on survival, stealth, evasion, distraction, securing resources, and moving through the world rather than actual zombie combat. On April 12, 2013 the game was officially announced to release in June 2013 on Xbox Live Arcade and Microsoft Windows at a future date. State of Decay was released on the Xbox Live Marketplace on June 5, 2013.
Class4 is the codename for the followup to State of Decay. Little is known about the game other than it is planned to be one of the first massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) to come to the Xbox One.
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