Shambling Hordes is a Flash-based game created by Yahoo! Labs.

The game lets two players direct an army of shuffling ghouls as they try to take over a map and capture each others' home base.



Along the way, the players skirmish, deciding how to allocate their troops for the win.



The game hits on basics of Yahoo!'s business model, including "user engagement -- studying the learning curves and interaction patterns of players -- to online advertising exchanges -- identifying the dominant allocation strategies for dynamic marketplaces," according to an email sent to CNN from a Yahoo! spokeswoman.

"Why is Yahoo! Labs developing a game like Shambling Hordes? Well, first of all, because Zombies are awesome," reads a Yahoo! blog post. "And second of all, because using technology and new experiences to look at thorny intellectual problems are a big part of the experimentation we do in Labs."

And here we were thinking it was just a cool chance to make digital zombies eat each other's brains.



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