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Undead Labs

American video game developer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Undead Labs LLC is an independent American video game developer based in Seattle, Washington. The company was founded in November 2009 by Jeff Strain and developed the State of Decay series. In 2018, Undead Labs became part of Microsoft Studios. In 2026, Undead Labs separated from Microsoft and became independent as an employee-owned studio.

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“Undead Labs” enters the record as american video game developer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Undead, Labs and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Undead Labs” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.