The Walking Dead Episode 4: Around Every Corner promised us two things in the lead-up to its launch: brilliant writing by Book of Eli scribe Gary Whitta, and a dark, nigh-depressing story. The question now is if it delivers on these promises. Around Every Corner tackles the extremes of child endangerment and mutilation, forces players to slowly and deliberately bury ...
Walking Dead Episode 5 stats broken down
It's impossible to talk about this Walking Dead Episode 5 stat breakdown video without spoiling the story, but we're going to try. Remember when you had to make that choice? To make Lee do that thing? And it was terrible/awesome? Turns out that's what most other players did too. ...
The Walking Dead classified for Australia
Despite being surrounded by water and populated with vicious crocodiles, Australia will still suffer the inevitable incursion of the undead. More specifically, Telltale's The Walking Dead has been classified in Australia. The game received an MA15+ rating for its "strong themes and horror ...
Walking Dead XBLM codes being given to players with disc version issues
Telltale Games is issuing The Walking Dead XBLM codes to players affected by the Xbox 360 retail version's "severe hitching." Posting on Telltale's forums, the developer narrowed down issues of "unacceptable freezing or stuttering" to those playing the disc version on a 4GB Xbox 360 with no ...
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 ...
Telltale: The Walking Dead has sold 8.5 million episodes
Telltale's acclaimed episodic series The Walking Dead has sold over 8.5 million episodes, CEO Dan Connors told The Wall Street Journal. Connors said that about 25 percent of the sales come from iOS devices, and "at about $5 per episode, that's roughly more than $40 million in sales, not including ...
Steam's Holiday Encore Weekend reprises discounts on Dishonored, XCOM and more
Steam's Holiday Encore Weekend has kicked off, and it's essentially the digitally distributed PC gaming equivalent of one of those Top 40 best-of compilation CDs: Now That's What I Call The Best of Steam's 2012 Holiday Sale, Vol. 1. Running until 1 p.m. Eastern on Monday, January 7, the sale ...
Editorial: Point out the definition of adventure games until it clicks
As the underground cult of indie development surges to the surface and crowdfunding allows vague ideas to transform into products, the scope of gaming bubbles and changes. Games now span spectrums of physical input and emotional amplitude, and our perspectives change with them. Amid this upheaval ...
Joystiq Top 10 of 2012: The Walking Dead
Telltale's The Walking Dead proves the old adage true at nearly every turn: You just can't satisfy everyone all the time. As Lee Everett, you're going to fail someone no matter what you do. Every decision – including indecision – will piss someone off at best and get someone killed at ...
The Walking Dead sale: complete season for 800 MSP on XBLM today
Episodes 2-5 of The Walking Dead are half-price in today's Xbox Live Countdown to 2013 deal. With that quartet now shambling for just 200 MSP each, and the first episode still creeping about at no cost, that means you can chomp on the entire season today for just 800 MSP ($10). Telltale's zombified ...
Steam sale continues with great deals on FTL, XCOM, and more
There are only four days left in 2012 after today, which means you're running out of chances to save money on games this year. Steam understands this, and today's iteration of sale prices is designed to help you pick up some of the best games of 2012 for super cheap. FTL, the great indie space ...
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