State of Decay 3 was announced with a snazzy cinematic trailer all the way back in 2020. The open-world zombie game was due to move to colder climes, where you would face undead deer and survive the frigid elements. We've since learned that the teaser bore very little resemblance to what was actually being worked on, and was pushed out the door to plump up a Microsoft showcase.
However, what the teaser also didn't reveal was that Undead Labs' ideas for the game were much larger in scope than the two survival games that came before. For several years they were trying to make State of Decay 3 into an MMO that captured the scale of a global zombie apocalypse.
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"We basically rewrote the entire State of Decay game": Undead Labs spent years trying to make State of Decay 3 into a full-blown zombie apocalypse MMO
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As No Man's Sky arrives on mobile, Hello Games celebrates with a spooky update for all that includes delivery missions and "seamless" interstellar travel
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Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition is coming to Steam with major upgrades for the classic
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Valve addresses Steam's AI game cloning problem – by suggesting developers make their games less copyable
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Palworld studio still hopes to release the game on Switch 2 one day, despite being in a legal battle with Nintendo
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