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10 CommentsMetal Gear: Solid Peace Walker on the PS Vita,The Walking Dead Survival Instinct available for pre-order as PlayStation Store updates
By Jenna Pitcher on Feb 27, 2013 02.27.13
BioShock Infinite, The Walking Dead Survival Instinct and several other titles are available for pre-order from the PlayStation Store, and general consumers and PlayStation Plus Members can get huge discounts on titles across PS3 and PS Vita, the PlayStation Blog announced today BioShock Infinite, Tiger Woods PGA Tour '14, Army of Two: The Devil's Cartel and MLB The Show '13 can be pre-orderd for $59.99. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct and Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist Of Dusk are available for $49.99. The BioShock Infinite Bundle for $79.99 includes a free theme, The Industrial Revolution Gear Pack and the original BioShock game. Blog also announced that Metal Gear: Solid Peace Walker will be available for purchase on the PS Vita Store. Bundles available for purchase feature D...
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15 CommentsSony offers $10 PSN credit for every $50 spent in March
By Samit Sarkar on Feb 26, 2013 02.26.13
A number of major 2013 games are launching in March, and Sony is sweetening the release schedule with a cash back offer: For every $50 you spend in the PlayStation Store next month, you'll get $10 back in PlayStation Network credit. The offer is valid to PSN users in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, and although Sony's advertising it as taking place in the month of March, it has already begun. PlayStation Store purchases from today, Feb. 26, through April 1 will count toward the promotion. That also applies to renewing an annual PlayStation Plus subscription for $49.99: According to Pierre Gravereau, senior manager of digital distribution, you won't need to spend the extra penny to get $10 back. And there doesn't appear to be a limit to the amount of cash back you can accumulate. So if...
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6 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct on Wii U won't be released in Australia
By Jenna Pitcher on Feb 11, 2013 02.11.13
The Wii U version of Activision's first person shooter The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct won't see an Australian retail release due to low demand, Australian site Vooks reported today. "As with every game release, publishers decide which platforms to release based on customer demand. Unfortunately it wasn't there for the Wii U sku on The Walking Dead," Activision said in a statement to Vooks. The game based on the Walking Dead AMC TV series is set for release on March 19 and March 20 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows, in the U.S and Australia, respectively. It will be released on March 22 in the U.K. and March 26 in U.S. for Wii U. Polygon contacted Activision and Nintendo and will update as more information becomes available.
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6 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct UK pre-order bonus includes zombie herds and blades
By Dave Tach on Feb 07, 2013 02.07.13
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct's U.K. pre-order bonus includes waves of zombie hordes and several bladed weapons, according to a press release from publisher Activision. The Walker Heard Survival Pack gives players who pre-order the game at GAME stores in the U.K. and GameStops in the Republic of Ireland access to the wave-based Herd Mode and a variety of bladed melee weapons, including a survival knife, kukri, hatchet and two machetes. The U.K.'s Survival Pack is a combination of U.S. pre-order bonuses from Amazon, which includes five bladed weapons, and GameStop, which includes Herd Mode (and a bonus severed ear necklace). Developed by Terminal Reality, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is based on AMC's The Walking Dead TV show and follows the post-apocalyptic adventures...
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7 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct trailer revealed
By Jenna Pitcher on Feb 07, 2013 02.07.13
A trailer for Activision's The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, the first-person shooter based on the AMC TV show, was released exclusively on Entertainment Weekly today. The trailer features the TV show’s crossbow-wielding anti-hero Daryl Dixon (Norman Reedus) and his brother Merle (Michael Rooker). Serving as a prequel to the TV series, players will take on the role of Daryl and will have a choice of going through the game with guns blazing or taking a stealth approach. Polygon reported last month that the game would be released on March 19 for Xbox 360, PS3 and Windows, a week earlier than its original release date of March 26. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be released on March 22 in the U.K. and March 26 in U.S. for Wii U.
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6 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct release date moved up to March 19
By Dave Tach on Jan 31, 2013 01.31.13
The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, Activision's upcoming first-person shooter based on the AMC TV show, will be released on March 19 in the U.S., a week earlier than its previously announced March 26 release date, according to a post on One of Swords. The new release date pertains to the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Windows PC versions, an Activision representative confirmed to Polygon. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be released on March 22 in the U.K. and March 26 in U.S. for Wii U. U.S. pre-orders at Amazon include five blade weapons bundled as the Walker Execution Pack. GameStop's pre-orders contain the wave-based Herd Mode Challenge on Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 as well as a necklace with a severed ear, just like the game and TV show's quasi-lovable character Daryl....
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8 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct coming March 26, will be available on Wii U
By Alexa Ray Corriea on Jan 10, 2013 01.10.13
Activision's first-person shooter The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be released on March 26 in North America and March 29 in Europe, a representative for Activision told Polygon this morning. The game will be published for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC, as well as the Nintendo Wii U, the representative confirmed. According to Videogamer, the Wii U GamePad controller will be used to manage players' inventory. "[Inventory management is] super-streamlined on the Wii U pad," producer Glenn Gamble told the publication at a recent preview event in London. "Literally as you're playing you can be tapping items, dropping them, throwing them, equipping them, stuff like that. So the controls are just a lot more streamlined [on Wii U], but overall all three [versions] are pretty...
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9 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct protagonist Daryl Dixon voiced by AMC TV series actor Norman Reedus
By Samit Sarkar on Nov 29, 2012 11.29.12
Daryl Dixon, the protagonist of Terminal Reality's The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, will be voiced by Norman Reedus, the actor who plays him on the AMC television series, the studio announced today. Creative director Drew Haworth and audio director Kyle Richards traveled to Atlanta to record Reedus performing in-game dialogue in two sessions. According to Richards, Reedus had not previously worked on a video game (Reedus was signed on to appear in The Boondock Saints Video Game). But Haworth called him "the kind of actor that really makes writers look good," saying, "He gets the scene, the line, and what you're going for instantly and then doubles down on it, effortlessly 'Darylizing' lines for maximum punch." Reedus will be joined in the game by the actor Michael Rooker, who...
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10 CommentsThe Walking Dead: Survival Instinct offers fans a chance to appear, be murdered by zombies in-game
By Michael McWhertor on Oct 25, 2012 10.25.12
Activision and AMC are holding a contest that will put a group of lucky fans of The Walking Dead into the upcoming video game currently in development at Terminal Reality. Previously known as The Walking Dead Video Game, the first-person shooter is now officially titled The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. According to a release from AMC, clues for the online contest will be revealed during new episodes of The Walking Dead television series, beginning this Sunday, Oct. 28. The winners of that contest will have their facial likeness used to create unique in-game characters who will die in The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. Players will be able to uncover each winner's backstory and death scene in-game. The Survival Instinct contest announcement teases a "special challenge" to track...
Activison's 'The Walking Dead' makes the zombies the stars
By Griffin McElroy on Aug 17, 2012 08.17.12
Though it's set well before the events of the television show, Activision and Terminal Reality's take on The Walking Dead honors what has made the series such a hit: grotesque multitudes of zombies in various states of decay. Terminal Reality's Glenn Gamble walked a group of Gamescom 2012 attendees through some of the concepts behind the game, though save for a few stills and the game's announcement trailer, we did not get to see it in action. The Walking Dead stars the show's reddest-necked survivors, the Dixon brothers, on a cross-country journey in search of supplies and other survivors. On their trek, the player will need to make often decisions ranging from relatively trivial — which route do I take through the abandoned car-covered urbania? — to far more difficult, and...
