Poor zombies. By hungering for nothing so much as our brain matter, they've turned themselves into the most widely-slaughtered video game villains after Nazis and spiders. Now a start-up developer called Undead Labs is taking the zombie genre to the next logical step with a currently untitled zombie-based MMO made specifically for consoles.

In the announcement, company boss Jeff Strain said "Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse. 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."

Strain, who helped found ArenaNet and was the executive producer for NCsoft's Guild Wars, certainly has the right pedigree for a project like this. But it's hard to say if this will be the ultimate zombie experience, or the title that finally (re)buries zombies for good. Here's hoping it's the former.

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/11/23/undead-labs-creating-zombie-mmo-for-consoles/

This looks interesting... and chances are looking at who is at the lead of this it will be extremely good not to mention free to play! Aside from the initial cost of course. Give me a little more information and color me hyped.

hmm kinda cool?? :P

Haha I love the concept, can't really say much tho until more info comes up.

The idea sounds cool but an MMO from a startup company? Isn't that so 2004?

It's like they didn't get the memo that dot com companies failed and tried to make their own dot com company.

I want to like the idea of a zombie MMO, but I've just seen the story too many times where someone has a cool idea for an MMO, they start a studio that has decent experience behind them, and then if their game releases, it fails and fades into obscurity.

SHH Don't be a Negative Nancy you Debbie Downer... lol