Six to Start on turning players into fitness heroes with Marvel Move
Six to Start, the developers of hit fitness game Zombies, Run! announced the next game in its series of gameified exercise adventures. The studio's next game is Marvel Move, a comic book adventure-themed title that pairs running workout programs with audio adventures starring the company's famous comic book characters. Six to Start says the game will be out in the summer of 2023.
Marvel Move will launch in tandem with a new app from Six to Start called ZRX, which will contain both the Marvel-themed exercise game and future seasons of Zombies, Run!. Like the current version of Zombies, Run! (which initially launched as a paid application), access to Marvel Move will require a monthly subscription. A spokesperson for Six to Start declined to share specifics on the cost of the subscription at this time.
It's a major step forward for the company behind Zombies, Run!, which first released to commercial and critical success all the way back in 2012. In the eleven years since, the company has released fitness apps like The Walk and Dungeon Runner, but none had quite the impact of the original post-apocalyptic game.
That isn't to say the idea of combining game design and exercise apps hasn't remained popular. Advancements in motion controllers have fueled Ubisoft's Just Dance franchise, and Nintendo released Ring Fit Adventurein late 2019. The genre also received a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime boost in interest during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sales of these games and other app-driven exercise equipment spiked (though some like Peloton have come crashing down hard in the years after).
Six to Start CEO and co-founder Adrian Hon has watched the rest of the tech world try and crack the intersection of video games and
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