Zombies, Run! is officially back from the dead

Starting tomorrow, Zombies, Run! fans will be able to download a new eight-part story for the fitness app. That’s nothing short of a miracle. In 2012, Zombies, Run! was one of the first fitness apps to find a dedicated community. A big part of that success was that it combined a couch-to-5K plan with immersive audio storytelling set in a zombie apocalypse. Six to Start — the company behind the game — was eventually sold to OliveX, a dubious purveyor of crypto and NFT products. It then fell into the same trap that befalls many indie apps and games after acquisition. A little over a year ago, all but two Six to Start staffers had been laid off , and new episodes of the game were indefinitely put on hiatus. This is usually the point in the story where devastated fans try to mount a campaign to save the thing that brought them together — often with little hope or success. You only have to look at Supernatural , a popular virtual reality game that suffered this exact fate a few short months ago after Meta laid off the bulk of the game’s staff. But in the case of Zombies, Run! , fans got lucky. Cocreator and author Naomi Alderman bought back the app in November , and after roughly six months, Zombies, Run! is kicking off a new era aptly titled “Back from the dead.” “That was the feeling I came to. …