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With The Walking Dead: A New Frontier landing on PS4 and Xbox One today, it’s time for retailers to update their shelves with more zombie-related items – if your shelves aren’t already inundated with Switch stuff, of course. The boxed version of the third season of Telltale’s Walking Dead series …
Read More »The Walking Dead: A New Frontier coming to retail on March 3rd
The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series – A New Frontier will be arriving at European retailers on March 3rd, Telltale announced today. The game will come on a special season pass disc for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles (not Switch, sadly, despite being released on the same day as …
Read More »Telltale talks Mr Robot, Batman and its new publishing business
Telltale doesn’t make games like other people. It doesn’t begin a game with a prototype or concept art, instead it starts with a script. We don’t produce a game visually until we feel we have completed the script,” explains Job Stauffer, the head of creative communications at The Walking Dead, …
Read More »Starbreeze receives $40m investment to develop new Crossfire game
Swedish developer to bring Payday 2 and Overkill's The Walking Dead to Asian markets as part of deal
Read More »VIDEO: The Walking Dead: Michonne set to launch in 2016
Telltale’s The Walking Dead spin-off centered around fan-favourite character Michonne is now coming out in February 2016. That’s according to a trailer released during last night’s The Game Awards where Telltale also announced it was working on a Batman title. The Walking Dead: Michonne was announced during this year’s E3 …
Read More »Thinking inside the box: Why digital developers should bother with brick and mortar retail
The narrative goes that boxed games retail is dying as the digital market thrives. The digital sector has, in many ways, lowered the barrier to entry in the games market and been one of the main factors in the booming indie movement. Oh course, the physical games market is still …
Read More »Team17 developing Walking Dead spin-off of The Escapists
Original indie hit has sold 600,000 units to date
Read More »Telltale’s The Walking Dead is getting a three-part mini-series later this year
The franchise that made Telltale’s name is set to rise again later in 2015. The second season of the studio’s Walking Dead adventure game saw its final chapter released last August. However, an upcoming spin-off is set to tell a new story, presumably leading into the franchise’s third season. The …
Read More »505 is publishing Starbreeze’s The Walking Dead game
There’s another game based on The Walking Dead on the way, this time from Starbreeze and 505 Games. Following on from 505’s acquisition of a stake in Starbreeze last month, it will now handle next-gen publishing duties for The Walking Dead from Starbreeze-owned studio Overkill, which is the team behind …
Read More »Republique: The four-year mobile game
We talk to Camouflaj's Ryan Payton about longer dev cycles, the episodic model and the race to zero
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