Undead Labs/Kabam Announce Moonrise (Mobile Creature RPG, PAX Unveil)

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Fresh from its $120 million venture round, mobile game publisher Kabam is teaming up with Seattle developer Undead Labs to create Moonrise, a new role-playing game for mobile devices.

San Francisco-based Kabam will likely be publishing a lot more games like this one now that it has raised the money from China's Alibaba Group. Kevin Chou, chief executive of Kabam, said at the ChinaJoy conference that Kabam's value has topped $1 billion and that the company is seeking to take Western games to Asia and vice versa.

Kabam has games like Kingdom of Camelot, Dragons of Atlantis, and The Hobbit: Kingdoms of Middle-earth. Each of those has generated more than $100 million in revenue, and Chou said the company plans to make more than $500 million in revenue in 2014.

"We are thrilled to partner with Undead Labs. They are a veteran team that has worked on some of the greatest game franchises of all time," said Aaron Loeb, senior vice president of Kabam's North American Studios. "Their new creation, Moonrise, will bring a truly next generation mobile experience to gamers around the world."

Labs was founded in 2009 by games industry veteran Jeff Strain, whose career in games includes work at Blizzard Entertainment programming for StarCraft and Diablo, as well as forming the team that kicked off development of World of Warcraft. Strain also co-founded ArenaNet, where he was programmer and executive producer for the Guild Wars franchise, which went on to sell more than six million units.

"We're a gamer-focused studio with a great console pedigree," said Strain. "And Kabam is a world-class publisher focused on delivering console-quality games on mobile devices. It's a perfect match."

Moonrise will debut at the PAX Prime convention on Aug. 29 in Seattle. Previously, Undead Labs created the zombie survival fantasy game State of Decay. It launched in 2013 and sold more than a million copies in its first six weeks.


http://venturebeat.com/2014/08/04/kabam-teams-with-seattles-undead-labs-to-create-moonrise-mobile-game/

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