Undead Labs
“Undead Labs right this moment announced that it has accomplished its separation from XBOX and is now working as an unbiased, employee-owned recreation growth studio.”
“Development of State of Decay 3 remains actively underway at Undead Labs. The game is currently in alpha, with the team continuing toward the previously announced milestone of entering a closed beta before the end of the year.”
“Unfortunately, right this moment we’re additionally saying goodbye to a big variety of our colleagues. It’s tough to succeed in this second realizing that not everybody who helped get us right here will get to make the remainder of the journey with us. “
I truthfully would not have put sturdy odds on State of Decay 3 seeing the sunshine of day. Even earlier than the Microsoft mass layoffs we hadn’t heard a lot concerning the survival recreation for the reason that 2020 reveal trailer, and we discovered later the sport solely existed in a Word doc when that trailer was launched.
In 2024 it rose from the useless once more with one other trailer, after which there was principally nothing till this previous April when alpha assessments had been introduced. Then July hit, and Undead Labs was a part of the “significant restructure” at Microsoft: the studio was dumped, in different phrases.
But as its identify hints, Undead Labs merely would not die and turning into employee-owned appears like an excellent first step towards a brand new future… however as we noticed with Double Fine, that first step also includes, you guessed it, more layoffs. Even good news comes with bad news these days.
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