Xbox One State of Decay Dev Signs Multi-Year Extension With Microsoft

[KN1GHTMARE]

Undead Labs, developer of State of Decay, announced today that it has signed a "multi-year, multi-title" extension with Microsoft Studios to continue its relationship with the publisher.

"We'll be able to share details later this year, but as with State of Decay, we think it's best if we just keep our heads down and build some prototypes before we talk too much," founder Jeff Strain said of the new deal on Undead's blog. "For now, suffice it to say there are big things going on with State of Decay."

Source: IGN

Well this is pretty awesome! For those of you who have never played State of Decay, its likely it has to do the poor marketing the game had, although word of mouth quickly spread positive feedback. The game was an open world zombie adventure game where death was permanent and therefore survival carried some real weight. This is yet another studio MSFT has managed to nab exclusives from and I think this is great and paints a positive picture for the future of the Xbox One. Keep them coming!

 

[Marv75]

This is good news indeed! I have never had the chance to play the game and it could only get better on the X1.

 

[Outrun]

Awesome news for Microsoft. MetalSwift kept telling me to check this game out when it first hit Xbox 360 and it's a game totally worth playing and worth the price.

 

[ragnafable11]

Well this is pretty awesome! For those of you who have never played State of Decay, its likely it has to do the poor marketing the game had, although word of mouth quickly spread positive feedback. The game was an open world zombie adventure game where death was permanent and therefore survival carried some real weight. This is yet another studio MSFT has managed to nab exclusives from and I think this is great and paints a positive picture for the future of the Xbox One. Keep them coming!

I have no idea what the game looks like but if this is another Zombie game then I'm all in. I'll look it up online once I'm home.

 

[diamondback8]

Well, finally! A friend of mine showed me the game one time and wow, the game's pretty awesome. It's like mixing The Walking Dead + GTA + other survival horror games. Well, good to know they're finally gonna give us a new one. I hope this time, the game will have multiplayer. At least now it can happen that a new entry in the series will happen!

 

[sidd230]

Good! I really enjoyed State of Decay and look forward to seeing what else they can do.

In my opinion, this game is comparable to the Last of Us.

 

[Fullmetalpanic009]

Well, finally! A friend of mine showed me the game one time and wow, the game's pretty awesome. It's like mixing The Walking Dead + GTA + other survival horror games. Well, good to know they're finally gonna give us a new one. I hope this time, the game will have multiplayer. At least now it can happen that a new entry in the series will happen!

Truly a zombie masterpiece. Love this game already.

 

[Dorotheo]

Sounds awesome! I've never tried state of decay but heard nothing but great things! Microsoft has been pretty good with nabbing some good marketplace worthy games.

 

[thedoodseven]

Sounds awesome! I've never tried state of decay but heard nothing but great things! Microsoft has been pretty good with nabbing some good marketplace worthy games.

Yes, lots of great things man. There's a lot I tell you. I especially like one feature where you can set almost any house you explore in the game as a house base. And it's hard to maintain them since the people you hang out with in the game have a personality. Awesome, just awesome.

 

[MetalSwift]

State of Decay is a game that's really hard to define because there's a bunch of elements to it. Elements that you'd thought would've been in zombie games much earlier--and there are zombie survival games in same vein that game out before State of Decay (Zafehouse is one). Now you can say "It's zombie survival," but you're going to end up listing all the awesome stuff that makes it concrete and defines that subgenre within the zombie genre.

 

[spark_777]

State of Decay is a game that's really hard to define because there's a bunch of elements to it. Elements that you'd thought would've been in zombie games much earlier--and there are zombie survival games in same vein that game out before State of Decay (Zafehouse is one). Now you can say "It's zombie survival," but you're going to end up listing all the awesome stuff that makes it concrete and defines that subgenre within the zombie genre.

You put it all together man. Yes, it's actually a hard one to define. Much like TV shows that are never stuck on just one genre (Community), State of Decay just puts so many elements you never thought you'd see in a zombie survival game and it's all stitched together to make a great game. Awesome.

 

[Dorotheo]

Yes, lots of great things man. There's a lot I tell you. I especially like one feature where you can set almost any house you explore in the game as a house base. And it's hard to maintain them since the people you hang out with in the game have a personality. Awesome, just awesome.

Sounds like real life to me !

But are there any other good arcade games worthy to be played?
Just migrated my Xbox Live Account from an Asian to the N. American region and now restriction free!

 

[NuclearDragon]

I played a little bit of State of Decay and really liked what I played. I picked it up after hearing about it over at on the PS4 forum.

 

[ThunderSteel]

I'm really hoping Undead Labs has even more success on the Xbox One. They really hit the ball out of the park with State of Decay.

 

[heavensdevil]

Great, this could only mean more games for the Xbox in the future. I've heard a lot of good things about this game studio. I'm really excited to see what games can they do for the X1 given how good State of Decay is.

 

[knives0302]

Great, this could only mean more games for the Xbox in the future. I've heard a lot of good things about this game studio. I'm really excited to see what games can they do for the X1 given how good State of Decay is.

Yeah, more games for Xbox One and more things to watch out for.

 

[thedoodseven]

Multiplayer. Add some multiplayer. My friend has been dying to have that feature since he played the game. The studio had to remove the feature because they would retroactively change the elements of the game but it would mean a big delay for the game. Well, with this deal, I believe they can finally integrate multiplayer.

 

[ragnafable11]

Multiplayer. Add some multiplayer. My friend has been dying to have that feature since he played the game. The studio had to remove the feature because they would retroactively change the elements of the game but it would mean a big delay for the game. Well, with this deal, I believe they can finally integrate multiplayer.

Yeah, it would be nice to have a multiplayer option on the game. It would make the game even more enjoyable.

 

[Dom0411]

I'm really hoping Undead Labs has even more success on the Xbox One. They really hit the ball out of the park with State of Decay.

I hope so too. Well like the other two said. It would be nice to add a multiplayer function on the game. I think it would be better for the game to have it.

 

[thecreed4life]

Multiplayer. Add some multiplayer. My friend has been dying to have that feature since he played the game. The studio had to remove the feature because they would retroactively change the elements of the game but it would mean a big delay for the game. Well, with this deal, I believe they can finally integrate multiplayer.

I hope they can this time. I did remember the developers said they couldn't integrate multiplayer in fear it would delay the game further. Well, with this deal in cue, we may see it! This time, they have time to make it happen.