{"id":4891,"date":"2009-11-24T00:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T22:14:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"ex-wow-and-guild-wars-developer-announces-zombie-mmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4891-ex-wow-and-guild-wars-developer-announces-zombie-mmo","title":{"rendered":"Ex WoW and Guild Wars developer announces Zombie MMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;The world doesn&rsquo;t need any more dragons&rdquo; said Jeff Strain, who worked on Diablo, Star Craft and World of Warcraft before leaving to co-found ArenaNet where he worked on GuildWars.<\/p>\n<p>Strain was infact the lead programmer on World of Warcraft during its early development, and its hard to think of any MMO developers with more pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>Strain has announced a new MMO that will be coming to consoles, and will take on a zombie\/survivalist theme.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Undead Labs is committed to bringing to life an MMO loaded with action, humor and, of course, a whole lotta zombies, because the world doesn&#8217;t need more dragons,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Nothing screams funny quite like wading into a group of rotting zombies with a lawn chair and a box of sharpened #2 pencils, and nothing says fun quite like doing it with your friends, whether online or on your couch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=146821#post146821\" target=\"_self\">Discuss zombie MMO<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because \u201cthe world doesn\u2019t need any more dragons\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}