{"id":371784,"date":"2026-07-07T07:28:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/?p=371784"},"modified":"2026-07-07T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:28:19","slug":"microsoft-reportedly-sells-undead-labs-state-of-decay-3-on-game-pass-now-in-doubt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-reportedly-sells-undead-labs-state-of-decay-3-on-game-pass-now-in-doubt\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft reportedly sells Undead Labs: State of Decay 3 on Game Pass now in doubt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Microsoft is reportedly looking to sell Undead Labs, the studio making <a href=\"https:\/\/state-of-decay-3.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">State of Decay 3<\/a>, even though State of Decay 3 is still in development. That alone doesn&#8217;t point to a cancellation. Reports say Microsoft still plans to <strong>fund the game through launch<\/strong>. The bigger issue is what a sale would do to its release terms, because if Undead Labs leaves Xbox&#8217;s usual first-party setup, a day-one Xbox <a href=\"https:\/\/xbox-game-pass.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Game Pass<\/a> launch suddenly looks far less guaranteed.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So if you had State of Decay 3 marked down as one of the big <a href=\"https:\/\/xbox-game-pass.en.softonic.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Game Pass<\/a> launches, this is something to keep an eye on. Microsoft would reportedly need to <strong>work out a separate deal<\/strong> with whoever ends up buying the studio. And right now, nobody knows who that buyer is. That name isn&#8217;t expected to come out until later this summer.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It also fits the larger Xbox reset that&#8217;s been taking shape, with layoffs and reported plans to sell off studios like Ninja Theory, Double Fine, and Compulsion Games. That lines up with Microsoft&#8217;s expanding multi-platform strategy. State of Decay 3, as things stand, is planned for <strong>2027 on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X\/S<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">State of Decay 3 was announced back <strong>in 2020<\/strong>, and a lot of people will remember the earlier reports about workplace problems at Undead Labs. The timing hasn&#8217;t helped, either. The reported sale of Undead Labs landed right after State of Decay 3 showed up again at the latest Xbox showcase, and it&#8217;s only added more fuel to the criticism surrounding Xbox&#8217;s restructuring.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is reportedly looking to sell Undead Labs, the studio making State of Decay 3, even though State of Decay 3 is still in development. That alone doesn&#8217;t point to a cancellation. Reports say Microsoft still plans to fund the game through launch. The bigger issue is what a sale would do to its release &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-reportedly-sells-undead-labs-state-of-decay-3-on-game-pass-now-in-doubt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft reportedly sells Undead Labs: State of Decay 3 on Game Pass now in doubt&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1009,"featured_media":371783,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[1015],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-371784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371785,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371784\/revisions\/371785"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371784"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=371784"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=371784"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=371784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}