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Amazon will start streaming Robert Kirkman's 'Invincible' on March 26th
The first three episodes of Invincible will premiere on Amazon Prime Video on March 26th, with new episodes to follow every Friday until April 30th when the company starts streaming the season finale.
Telltale's 'The Walking Dead' delivers its final episode next week
The final season of Telltale's The Walking Dead series will come to an end next week, when the fourth and last episode is released by TWD creator Robert Kirkman's Skybound Games. When Telltale Games virtually shut down and laid off everyone working on the project any release of the game's finale seemed in doubt, but then Skybound announced plans to complete the series with participation from "many of the talented, passionate team members" who originally worked on it. For players, they'll be able to end Clementine's story leading a community of lost children fighting through a world infested with zombies. After years of following along it will hopefully be a satisfying ending, despite everything that transpired at the game's studio and its impact on developers. There's a brief trailer that shouldn't give away too much about the story, but you can play it yourself on March 26th when its released on Xbox One, PS4, Switch and on PC via the Epic Games Store.
Payday developer reveals co-op Walking Dead game
Payday series developers Overkill Software and Starbreeze Studios revealed that they are working on a Walking Dead game of its own. The Walking Dead creator and Skybound Entertainment CEO Robert Kirkman said the new take on the zombie survival series is the "co-op game that all of the Walking Dead fans have been waiting for" in a Payday 2 Steam community update. Starbreeze CEO Bo Andersson Klint said the developer "will bring The Walking Dead into the world of first-person shooter co-op games," and that it will be "gameplay focused, ferocious and bring chaos to the traditional industry model." While the developer did not specify the game's targeted platforms, it did mention that it will be powered by Starbreeze's Diesel engine, "updated for the next generation." It is expected to launch in 2016, which is when "Washington falls," according to the announcement trailer. [Image: Overkill]
Telltale 'figuring out' save file transfers to Walking Dead Season 2
Telltale Games is currently looking at how best to carry save files over between The Walking Dead and its next series of episodes. Dan Connors, Telltale co-founder and CEO, isn't saying much else about the second season yet, as it's still in a conceptual phase."Right now we are just starting to form the concept for season two," Connors told Red Bull in an interview that could only have taken place inside a home-made flying apparatus hurtling toward a lake. "This all remains to be seen but we are definitely figuring out how to carry the saves over."? Joystiq will remember thatSo far the critically acclaimed game has made "roughly more than $40 million in sales, not including any promotions," according to Connors.
The Walking Dead: Assault lunges toward iOS
The plague of Robert Kirkman's undead has once again spread to iDevices, the comic creator revealed through his Twitter account today. The Walking Dead: Assault is an official episodic adaptation of the comic series published by Kirkman's own Skybound Entertainment. The first episode "Days Gone By" is available now for a reduced price of $1.99.The Walking Dead: Assault is a top-down strategy game at its core, propositioning players with corralling together their band of survivors and mowing down hordes of the undead. You build teams composed of comic favorites like Rick, Glenn, Carl, Andrea and more, and complete missions ripped from those same pages.You can download the first episode right now through iTunes – the app is Universal and has support for iPhone 5 Retina displays. Other games within The Walking Dead universe include Telltale's The Walking Dead and The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, a first-person shooter from Terminal Reality due next year.
Robert Kirkman talks The Walking Dead, shows gameplay, is charming
The third installment of Telltale's The Walking Dead behind-the-scenes interview series, Playing Dead, features Robert Kirkman, writer of The Walking Dead comic series. Kirkman and the guy who voiced Marty McFly in Back to the Future talk art style, writing the game and why it isn't an open-world shooter, among other interesting tidbits.This episode also features a good chunk of gameplay footage (7:02 and 11:50) involving batteries, why there aren't more female mechanical engineers, and of course, zombies.
The Walking Dead shambles into certification this week
The Walking Dead is getting closer -- grab the shotgun! -- and is expected to be submitted for certification on XBLA and PSN this week, with a release soon after, Telltale CEO Dan Connors told Digital Trend at GDC. Connors expects the certification process to take about six weeks, with the launch soon after, placing it in late April or May. He didn't specify the launch process for other platforms, including PC.Telltale wants to capitalize on the "popularity" of the TV show, whose second season ends March 18, Digital Trend wrote. "Popularity" is of course a loaded term, but personally we've come to enjoy the show with a drinking game -- take a drink every time Lori is mad for a ridiculous reason; take two drinks every time an awkward silence lasts longer than four seconds; finish your drink every time someone shoots more bullets than their gun actually holds.That said, we're looking forward to Telltale's adaptation; either we'll finally get to enjoy the comic in a new form, or we'll have to buy some more beer.
The Walking Dead gets new life with dev webseries, Playing Dead
Telltale's video game adaptation of The Walking Dead is making slow, shuffling, possibly even moaning progress into reality, at least from our perspective. Luckily for us, Telltale has created a new web show, Playing Dead, in which developers and designers talk about the tone and progress of the game, instead of taking that time to actually make it.Don't get us wrong, we love hearing details about a game based on one of our favorite comic series in recent memory, but we won't be responsible for our actions if we don't see a gameplay video soon. We might write letters.Playing Dead launches alongside a new website for Telltale's The Walking Dead, and the first episode is watchable above. In it, lead designers Jake Rodkin and Sean Vanaman discuss the timeline of their Walking Dead, which runs parallel to the beginning of Rick's canonical story, and the authentic approach they're taking to original writer Robert Kirkman's lore.Rodkin and Vanaman reveal that players will interact with established characters such as Glenn and Hershel, and the video offers some in-game screenshots, one featuring a woman that could be Lori. We have provided the screens below for closer inspection.Choices players make, such as saving a character's life, will carry through the month-to-month episodes, Rodkin and Vanaman say, affecting later decisions and gameplay options. Vanaman notes that the game is five episodes, spread over five months.Supplementing all the new Walking Dead info, The Book of Eli writer Gary Whitta announced today that he is working with Telltale on their adaptation.%Gallery-147727%
The Digital Continuum: Superhero standoff
Lets face it, the superhero genre is a bit of a niche right now in massively online games. That's not to say it doesn't have lots of potential, but there is certainly a more limited user base to garner steady subscriptions from than, say, fantasy. Ever since Marvel Universe Online got canned, the future was starting to look a bit murky for fans of the super-powered MMO -- at least until recently.
