The MMO market isn't currently doing as well as it did for the remainder of the last decade, but the genre is far from dead. While the headlines are mostly being hogged by Amazon's troubled New World MMO, there are other upcoming titles on the block - such as the zombie MMO The Day Before, which just got a release date confirmation as well as Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 5 port announcements.

While the zombie multiplayer game market is absolutely overflowing - and has been for years and years - with recent popular releases including Back 4 Blood, and larger open world titles with survival elements being among the most common indie titles in the past few years, the undead and traditional MMO gameplay hasn't really meshed before.

In a genre where fantasy and sci-fi RPGs reign supreme, a traditional MMO set in a contemporary, modern zombie apocalypse is a pretty novel concept - and one we're surprised hasn't been done more often already. The Day Before is here to fill that niche, and as the MMO fandom isn't exactly inundated with new games, has gotten quite hyped up.

Now, the developers have finally announced a release date for the Zombie MMO, which only has had fairly limited information shared so far - unfortunately, we'll be waiting a good long while yet before we get to jump into this post-apocalyptic world that's been described as a cross between The Last Of Us and The Division.