When flesh-eating, shambling undead corpses invade Seattle, Undead Labs will probably be the ones responsible. Video game industry veteran Jeff Strain has announced the formation of Undead Labs, a Seattle-based development studio that’s on a mission to take online gaming in bold new directions. Their sole purpose is to create a massively multiplayer online zombie game for consoles. The company is committed to bringing to life an MMO loaded with action, humor and a horde of zombies, because they believe the world doesn’t need any more dragons.

“Every time I see a good zombie movie with friends, we spend days debating our strategies for surviving the zombie apocalypse,” said Strain. “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 (the Z is for zombie) that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure.”