There’s also an official announcement video in which Franchise Co-Creator and Principal Art Director Brant Fitzgerald explained:<\/p>\n Over the last few years, most of the team has been doing updates for State of Decay 2. The rest of us have been creating cool [bleep] for State of Decay 3. We’ve been keeping a close eye on what you liked about State of Decay 2 and what you didn’t. We’ve read your feedback on Discord. We’ve watched your gameplay clips and live streams on YouTube. Starting next month, we’ll be hosting a series of Alpha playtests with the community. Listen, I’m not going to spoil the surprise for you, but I can say that it will feature 4-player co-op, some new base building and resource strategies, and a whole lot of combat.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n State of Decay 3 was announced<\/a> in July 2020, at a time when it was clearly still in concept phase. A couple of years later, now-retired Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer started hyping the game<\/a> as one of his most anticipated first-party titles. However, a few days later, a Kotaku report brought to light development issues<\/a> that had kept the game in pre-production, as well as allegations of mismanagement and sexism. <\/p>\n The game resurfaced with a gameplay trailer<\/a> during the Xbox Game Showcase 2024. A few months later, Undead Labs announced<\/a> that post-launch support for the previous installment, 2017’s State of Decay 2<\/a>, would end shortly as the entire studio would focus on State of Decay 3.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\t\t\t\tAbout the author<\/a>: With over two decades of experience in gaming journalism, Alessio Palumbo has led the gaming vertical at Wccftech since August 2015. He started working at a young age for Italian websites like Everyeye.it, Gamestar.it, Nextgame.it, and Multiplayer.it before kickstarting the indie English-language publication Worlds Factory as its founder and Editor in Chief.
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\nIn the last decade, he has coordinated the overall output of Wccftech’s gaming<\/a> section, managed PR relations, assigned reviews, produced daily news coverage, edited gaming content as needed, and delivered game reviews.
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\nArguably, his trademark content is the long series of exclusive developer interviews that have been cited by Wikipedia and by the biggest news media and gaming publications.
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\nHis passion for technology also makes him knowledgeable when it comes to gaming hardware and tech. His favorite genres include RPGs, MMORPGs, and action\/adventure games.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n