Don’t expect to see Deputy Rick Grimes make an appearance in the first episode of Telltale’s comic-based The Walking Dead video game series. The hero of the series will be sleeping away the first instalment in a coma while creators explorer what supporting cast members were getting up to at the time.
Think a Jurassic Park title from Telltale Games is exciting? How about a full episodic season of games based on Back to the Future, due out this winter? Whoa, this is heavy.
Fable II finally gets a demo of sorts with the debut of Fable II: Game Episodes, the epic adventure split up into five bite-sized chunks, and the first one is free!
PlayStation 3 owners are getting a bit of episodic adventure in their lives later this year, as Relentless Software announces Blue Toad Murder Files exclusively for the PlayStation Network.
The episodic adventure specialists at Telltale Games are making the jump to Xbox Live Arcade this spring, with the help of a bumbling inventor and his hyper-intelligent canine companion.
Warner Bros are quite convinced that releasing an episodic downloadable Watchmen tie-in game is not only innovative, but actually rather brave.
“We know it’s risky for us, and the safe move would have been to cram out a retail game alongside the film release,” Senior VP Samantha Ryan told MCV, “but we didn’t feel that was the right decision.”
Surely the risk with Watchmen isn’t the length of the game, the media it arrives in or how closely it aligns with the film’s release.. it is the fact that Watchmen is such a beloved comic that fans are convinced it is going to stink up the place before seeing even a few pixels and will hunt you down, vigilante style if it is worse than they fear?