Jeff Strain, a man with an amazing MMO pedigree, has opened a new studio in Seattle dedicated to creating the ultimate zombie console MMO.

After spending the last few years working with NCSoft on the Guild Wars franchise Strain felt it was time for a change. Last summer he left NCSoft to begin laying down the ground work to open Undead Labs.

“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 that lets us put those strategies to the test and find out for sure.”

Strain’s CV is pretty awesome. Before working at NCSoft he co-founded ArenaNet with Mike O’Brien and Patrick Wyatt at Blizzard after working as a programmer on Diablo and Starcraft, including creating the Starcraft Campaign Editor.

You can follow Jeff and the team at Undead Studios at their new website here.