Tag: The Walking Dead
News Forget Kong, GameMill's The Walking Dead: Destinies Could Be Amongst 2023's Worst
So far, anyway
GameMill Entertainment is a publisher that rose to notoriety last month with Skull Island: Rise of Kong, an abysmal offering so bad it beggared belief. The Walking Dead: Destinies, which GameMill quietly released last week, plumbs new depths, an impressive achievement in its own right.
News Rewrite Fictional History in The Walking Dead: Destinies on PS5, PS4
Carl?
The Walking Dead: Destinies is a third-person narrative-driven adventure game, and it's coming to PlayStation platforms on 17th November. It has an intriguing pitch: players can explore story paths that AMC's adaptation didn't, allowing players to influence the action. It's looking a bit shaky, and frankly, that's part of the reason for our...
News The Walking Dead: Destinies Lets You Rewrite the Timeline of the TV Show on PS5, PS4
The Walking... Alive?
If you've ever watched seasons one to four of The Walking Dead and wished certain things had panned out differently, GameMill Entertainment sure has a game for you. The Walking Dead: Destinies has just been announced, an official game based on the popular AMC series that lets you relive and rewrite iconic scenes. Coming to PS5...
News The Walking Dead PSVR2 Looks Generations Apart from Meta Quest 2
An insane upgrade
We know that PSVR2 is significantly more powerful than Meta Quest 2, and it should be: the headset is not only utilising cutting-edge tech, but it’s also powered by Sony’s new-gen PS5 console, which is obviously far more advanced than Meta’s built-in mobile chipset. Despite all that, however, the irritatingly named The...
News PS Plus Owners Will Have to Pay to Upgrade The Walking Dead for PSVR2
Dead right
Critically acclaimed virtual reality survival game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is coming to PSVR2 – but if you claimed the game all the way back in November 2021 as part of PS Plus, then you’ll need to pay for the upgrade. While there was
News The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners 2 Looks Like a Gloriously Gory Good Time on PSVR2
Fear The Walking Dead
If you can get past The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution's awful, awful title, the game itself is actually looking pretty darn good, as you can see for yourself in the latest trailer. We got the chance to see a preview of the title last year, and what we saw had us optimistic this sequel would live up...
News The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners 2 Survives PSVR2 on 21st March
And the original is getting ported to Sony's new headset
The sequel to Skydance Interactive’s critically acclaimed virtual reality survival smash hit The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners - Chapter 2: Retribution [We hate that name – Ed], will scavenge for resources from 21st March, 2023 on PSVR2. And in surprise news, it’ll be available as...
First Impressions Sandbox Survival Takes Centre Stage in The Walking Dead Sequel for PSVR2, PSVR
Saints and sinners
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is widely regarded as one of the best virtual reality games on the market. As a horror game with an emphasis on survival, the release tasked you with exploring an apocalyptic New Orleans, scavenging for supplies and crafting useful tools to help you stay alive. Skydance Interactive’s...
News Seminal VR Survival The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Scores PSVR2, PSVR Sequel
Dead rising
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is hands down one of the best PSVR games available – in fact, you could make an argument that it’s up there with the best survival games on the PS Store. The sequel, then, which was announced earlier in the year, is guaranteed to be a bloody good time – and it’s coming to both PSVR2 and...
Video How Telltale Nailed The Walking Dead's Opening Scene
A quiet start to the apocalypse
Telltale’s The Walking Dead is 10 years old this week (welp!) and we’ve been reminiscing on its fantastic post-apocalyptic story. Within a span of just five episodes, players around the world came to love the wholesome father/daughter relationship between survivors Lee and Clementine. There are a lot of memorable...
News Sequel to Acclaimed VR Survival Game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Snatches First Footage
Undead good
We’re pretty confident the sequel to acclaimed survival game The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners will be playable on PSVR2, but full clarity first: that’s not confirmed yet. The title – which was announced a few weeks ago – was confirmed for Meta Quest 2 during a showcase earlier today, with no other platforms mentioned. This...
News PSVR Hit The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Will Survive a Sequel
But will it be on PSVR2?
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is widely considered one of the best PSVR games due to its smart combination of virtual reality immersion and survival gameplay systems. Now it’s getting a sequel, as confirmed by Skydance Interactive on the title’s official Twitter account. “Hold on to your heads, tourists, The...
News PSVR Survival Sim The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Feels the Aftershocks with Free Add-On
Expansion for enormous virtual reality release
The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is, hands down, one of the most immersive survival games on the market. It’s also absolutely enormous, which is something of a rarity for PSVR titles. And existing owners of the release can look forward to a free content drop starting 20th May, which will...
News The Walking Dead Onslaught Brings the Walkers Back to PSVR Next Month
Norman Reedus reprises role
If you're looking for even more zombie-slaying action on PlayStation VR following the supposedly excellent The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners, you might want to keep your eye on The Walking Dead Onslaught. It has just been given a confirmed release date of 29th September 2020 for Sony's virtual reality headset, and...
News The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Is Out Now on PSVR
Shadow drop
After treating PC players to what is considered one of the best VR games to date, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners has launched today for PlayStation VR. It's available for purchase right now on the PlayStation Store, with a standard version coming in at £28.99/$39.99 and the Tourist Edition priced at £44.99. The reason we're so...
News The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners Releases to Glowing Reviews Ahead of PSVR Launch
81 on Metacritic
With upcoming PlayStation VR titles drying up as of late, we're now more than ever relying on third-parties to deliver the goods when it comes to Sony's headset. We've got Marvel's Iron Man VR, Paper Beast, and now it looks like you can add The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners to the list of PSVR games you should be excited about...
News The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Patch 1.02 Fixes Game-Breaking Bug
Back from the dead
Update (12th September 2019): Skybound Games has released a patch, taking the game to version 1.02. This new update fixes the issue, so you should now be able to get stuck into the action. Phew! Original Story: You'd be forgiven for letting this release slip your mind (we did), but Skybound Games
News The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series Brings Everything Together This September
All seasons in one package, plus more
Just when you thought it was safe to take the wooden boards off the windows, The Walking Dead has risen from its grave once again. This time, Skybound Games is bringing the entire episodic adventure together. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series puts all four seasons and associated DLC in one box, so...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season's Last Episode Gets an Emotional New Trailer
Take Us Back
The grand finale of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is right around the corner. Episode 4 releases on 26th March, and to mark the occasion, a new trailer has been released, showing off the cast of characters as they struggle against an encroaching horde of zombies. It's all set to a sombre lullaby, of course. It'll be interesting to...
News Overkill's The Walking Dead Not Cancelled on PS4, Just 'Postponed'
Not dead yet
There was a rumour going around earlier in the week that Overkill's The Walking Dead had been cancelled on consoles. The shooter released on PC at the back end of last year, but it was largely hammered by both players and critics. Because of this, it was delayed indefinitely on PS4. However, publisher 505 Games says that it's still...
Rumour Overkill's The Walking Dead Seemingly Cancelled on PS4
Fans receive refunds
Overkill's The Walking Dead was panned by many when it launched on PC late last year, and then, following the criticism, the console version received an indefinite delay in January. We've heard nothing of the shooter since, but this latest bit of speculation suggests that things aren't going well. A Reddit user sparked things...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season Concludes on 26th March
Physical edition slumping into stores
Considering there was a time when Clementine’s story wasn’t going to be concluded at all, it’s good to know that The Walking Dead: The Final Season will wrap up on 26th March, with the release of Episode 4: Take Us Back. Publisher Skybound Games – who picked up the project from the now-defunct Telltale...
News Episode 4 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season Releases at the End of March
Release date spotted in-game
The third episode of The Walking Dead's turbulent last season has finally arrived. This chapter, produced by Skybound Games after the sudden breakdown of Telltale Games, took some time to launch, with nearly a four month wait since Episode 2 released. Still, it's good that the game is back on track. What's more, it...
News The Walking Dead: Final Season Makes Miraculous Return Next Week
Broken toys
Telltale’s collapse was dramatic, fast, and put the final episodes of Clementine’s story in peril. Amazingly, though, The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s third episode, Broken Toys, will debut on 15th January – courtesy of Skybound Games. The fact that this is launching at all is a miracle, so count your blessings if you wanted...
News The Walking Dead Final Season Continues with Episode 3 in January 2019
Broken Toys
The final season of The Walking Dead has been in trouble since the dramatic shutdown of Telltale Games earlier in the year. Fortunately, the rest of the episodes will be released, as many of the original developers have joined forces with Skybound Ga
News The Walking Dead Reanimated as Work Restarts
Night of the living dead
Work has resumed on The Walking Dead: The Final Season, almost two months after Telltale Games closed down. Skybound Entertainment said that it has “been a ton of work logistically and legally to get us to a place where we're able to roll up our sleeves and get to the actual work” but that production of the fi
Original development team hopefully to be kept in tact
After rumours surfaced earlier in the week of the possibility of a new company stepping in and finishing up work on Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season, it has now been confirmed by Robert Kirkman, co-creator of The Walking Dead, that his team at Skybound Games will finish the project...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season Could be Completed by Telltale's Ex-Staff
Episode 3 almost complete
The Telltale Games fiasco continues as Kotaku has learned of plans for the remaining two episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. According to a couple of anonymous sources who claim to have insider knowledge on Telltale's current negotiations, the developer is reportedly planning to find a new company to hire back...
News Telltale Games Says There's Still Hope for The Walking Dead Final Season
Episodes 3 and 4 could still happen
The second episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season launches tomorrow on PlayStation 4, but following news of Telltale Games' demise, the season's third and fourth episodes were effectively cancelled. It seemed as though fans would never get to see how the long running series ends, but in a rather miraculous...
News The Walking Dead's Clementine Voice Actor Signs Off with Heartfelt Message to the Fans
"A lot of hearts were broken, including mine"
Over the weekend, news broke out that Telltale Games, the studio famous for narrative adventure games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, was laying off almost its entire staff, effectively shutting down. This has left hundreds of people out of work, and all future projects have been cancelled...
News Reports Say Telltale's The Walking Dead Final Season Is Also Cancelled Following Layoffs
No more episodes
Earlier this evening, news broke that Telltale Games has laid off 285 employees, effectively closing the developer down. However, initial reports suggested that a "skeleton crew" was being kept on to finish up the final season of The Walking Dead, but now new reports are saying that isn't actually the case. Sources have told
News Check Out the Intense Trailer for Episode 2 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season on PS4
Suffer the children
We're just a week away from The Walking Dead: The Final Season - Episode 2, entitled 'Suffer the Children'. To build up some excitement, Telltale has released a new trailer for the next chapter in Clementine's story, and it's looking like tension will be running high. We were fairly impressed with the first episode, which...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season Physical Edition Releases Before the Last Episode
"Season pass disc"
Considering that every single season has been released in disc form, it would've been a bit weird if the final season didn't have a physical copy to own. However, a post by the publisher's Twitter account confirmed the imminent release of the "season pass disc" of Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season. The...
News Telltale Reveals Release Schedule for The Walking Dead: The Final Season
Wrapped up by Xmas
Man, Telltale really is changing. The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s engine is vastly improved, and now it’s outlined the full release schedule for the entire series. The exciting news is that all four of its episodes will deploy this year, meaning that you’re not going to have to wait long at all between instalments. The...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season Is Looking Superb on PS4
End game
After years of begging and whining, Telltale finally appears to be stepping things up on the episodic games front. The last series of The Walking Dead was little more than a wet fart, but The Final Season promises to bring an end to Clementine’s story – and it’s looking like a real stride forward in virtually every department. While...
E3 2018 The Walking Dead's Final Season Will Be Four Episodes Long, Story Details
Back to school
Pre-orders for The Walking Dead: The Final Season are now live on the PlayStation Store, and the purchase page has revealed a few more interesting tidbits about Clementine's final episodic adventure. Most importantly, the last season will be four episodes long, making it the shortest entry yet with one less chapter than its...
News The Walking Dead Ushers the Beginning of the End on 14th August
Clemen-time
Here we are then: the beginning of the end for Clementine and Telltale’s take on The Walking Dead. The developer has attached a 14th August release date to the latest season of the fan favourite franchise, with pre-orders scheduled to open on 8th June. Purchase on the PlayStation Store, and you’ll get free access to The Walking Dead:...
News The Walking Dead: The Final Season's First Art Makes a Nostalgic Nod
One more Clementine
The Walking Dead: The Final Season will conclude Clementine’s story once and for all, and Telltale has released the first artwork from the episodic adventure. The image will particularly delight fans of the franchise, as it shows the story come full circle. In case you forgot it, here’s the artwork from the very first...
News Clementine Closes Up Telltale's The Walking Dead Next Year
Final season ends story once and for all
Spoilers: she’s going to die. Telltale’s announced The Walking Dead: The Final Season, which will cast Clementine back in the lead role, and end its adaptation of the comic book series seemingly for good. The title – which is in production now – will pick up after the events of The New Frontier, which...
Review The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 5: From the Gallows (PS4)
Off with its head
The problem with episodic games is that you have to finish strong, otherwise you risk spoiling months of build-up and leaving a sour taste. Unfortunately, the finale to The Walking Dead’s third season is a big disappointment, and it’ll leave you pondering exactly what the point of this story was in the first place. With the...
Review The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 4: Thicker Than Water (PS4)
Batsman out of Hell
You'd be right to assume that the title of Episode 4 in Telltale's latest The Walking Dead story A New Frontier is a reference to disgraced baseball star Javier Garcia's biggest decision: family or friends? Thicker Than Water explores whether the everyman would be better off siding with his brood or buddies, and it prompts plenty...
News The Walking Dead: Season Three Proves That Blood Is Thicker Than Water
New episode out 25th April
The fourth episode of The Walking Dead: A New Frontier will prove that blood is thicker than water from 25th April on the PlayStation 4. Considering the previous episode dropped a matter of weeks ago, this is a much quicker turnaround, which is welcome given that Above the Law felt like it stopped halfway through. There's...
Review The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 3: Above the Law (PS4)
Brotherly love
For as quickly as characters come and go in The Walking Dead titles, you've got to give Telltale Games credit for continuing to pull together a compelling cast. Ex-baseball star Javier Garcia's only been around for three instalments, but already he feels like part of the fettered furniture: his complex family dynamic once again the...
Review The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 2: Ties That Bind (Part Two) (PS4)
Oh, brother
Alright, the "twist" at the end of this episode is about as subtle as a meat cleaver to a Muertos' face, but The Walking Dead: A New Frontier is really moving at a breakneck pace. Having established a new cast of characters in the first half of this two-part premiere, Ties That Bind (Part Two) ratchets up the tension by plotting the fall...
Review The Walking Dead: A New Frontier - Episode 1: Ties That Bind (Part One) (PS4)
Family splatters
The first season of Telltale Games' comic book adaptation The Walking Dead propelled the episodic developer to superstardom; Lee's poignant tale of life after the apocalypse was lavished with end-of-year awards, and is looked upon fondly some four or so years after its original release – despite a laundry list of mechanical and...
News The Walking Dead: Season 3 Has a Particularly Grumpy Grandpa
He's a zombie, y'see
Telltale's engine is looking as creaky as ever, but that's not going to stop it from spinning some more yarns from the apocalypse. This extended look at The Walking Dead: A New Frontier (perhaps better known as Season 3) introduces a new cast of characters and one slightly older but still familiar face, ahead of the series...
News Telltale's The Walking Dead Embarks on a New Frontier from 20th December
A family affair
Ooh, here's something to look forward to: The Walking Dead: A New Frontier will premiere on 20th December, with a gameplay reveal due at Geoff Keighley's The Game Awards next week. The third season in the exceedingly popular property is leading with a David Cage-esque marketing slogan: how far will you go to protect your family? You...
News The Walking Dead's Third Season Gets An Info Blowout, Titled A New Frontier
Scheduled to release in November
The third season of The Walking Dead was formally announced at E3 earlier this year, but we've heard nothing of the game since then. However, during Telltale's panel at PAX West earlier today, the developer revealed that the third season will be titled "A New Frontier", and shared some details on what to expect in...
E3 2016 Here's Your First Look at The Walking Dead: Season 3 on PS4
Clem the killer
This author often feels like the only person on the planet that preferred The Walking Dead: Season 2 to its award-winning predecessor, but your humble host thought that the development of Clem's character was really great. The Walking Dead: Season 3 promises to be something special, then, with the once optimistic tween now turning...
News The Pressure's on in The Walking Dead: Michonne
Dead or alive
We'd almost forgotten that The Walking Dead games can literally be boiled down to a spate of trying decisions, but the launch trailer for upcoming mini-series Michonne hammers that point home, showing the titular hero stressed up to the eyeballs as she tries to survive in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. We'd rather feed our brains to...
