The team plans to continue working on the game despite the modification

Jun 20, 2013 06:43 GMT  ·  By

Developer Hammerpoint Interactive is announcing that it is changing the name of its The War Z video game to Infestation: Survivor Stories effective immediately.

The main reason for the radically different new name seems to be linked to confusion among the player base and problems with the core trademark, probably in relation to the new Brad Pitt movie.

The team says, “Please rest assured that this will in NO WAY affect you as players. The only difference you will see is the change in logo and website. There will be no interruption of service or change in content.”

Developers are saying that they will continue to deliver content for the game under the new name and that there are at the moment about 1 million registered players for it.

The War Z had many problems at launch, which are now fixed.