Undead Labs

Welcome to the year 2000 2010. As you know, our Big Plan is to bring the best elements of the first-person shooter massively multiplayer online game genre to the console platform.

I know, you’ve heard this before. I know you are not impressed, because every time you hear this it either never happens, or you get a weak port of an otherwise excellent PC title that does not feel at all like a true console game, and then the publisher expresses amazement that it was not successful and blames the console platform. It happens every time, and now “they” are saying that FPS MMO games are just simply better suited to the PC, and that console developers should just give up and go build more Tomb Raider and Madden sequels.

We hear you, console fans. But this time it’s going to be different, because we are willing to chart a bold course and develop an FPS MMO specifically for consoles, which will allow us to take advantage of the unique features of the platform and give you a true console experience. The pundits still say we’re crazy, and that it will never work. I guess we’ll be able to look back in ten years and know who was right.

So, let’s talk about some of these “unique features” of a console FPS MMO…

After we watched Zombieland for the fifth time (yeah, I’m serious), we had to add a new question to our post-movie-beer table discussion. Standing questions include, “If the zombie apocalypse started right now, where would you go first?” and, “What part of the world would be the best place to wait it all out?” After seeing the final battle at Pacific Playland, the new question is, “What is the most epic place you can think of for a final zombie showdown?”

I’ve got my answer.

Welcome, zombie fans!
And MMO fans.
Oh, and of course console gaming fans.
And if you don’t fall into one of those categories, you are welcome to hang out anyway if you are console-zombie-MMO-curious.

Today Undead Labs proudly announces… well, our existence. Here’s the official word.

So what’s this site all about? Well, you’ll notice a few non-traditional things going on here.

I had a meeting in New York City on Tuesday, so I decided to surprise my wife Annie and bring her along for a mini-vacation to celebrate our anniversary. Annie is a museum geek in general, but the timing of this trip was perfect because the Museum of Modern Art has just opened an exhibit showcasing the work of Tim Burton, so she was ecstatic.

Everyone who is involved in this endeavor is too excited to sleep at night. We’re up at 5:00 AM thinking about zombie MMOs, and we’re tossing and turing at midnight thinking about zombie MMOs. Our families, roommates, and SOs are being subjected to impassioned lectures on the relative merits and demerits of fast zombies versus slow zombies. Farmhouses versus apartment buildings. Supermarkets versus sporting goods stores. Crossbows versus crowbars. You just can’t take us anywhere these days.