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2 CommentsTelltale Games titles now available on Green Man Gaming
By Samit Sarkar on May 17, 2013 05.17.13
Online retailer Green Man Gaming now offers a variety of Telltale Games titles, the website announced today. Downloads of the Windows PC and Mac versions of games such as The Walking Dead, Back to the Future: The Game and Tales of Monkey Island are now available from Green Man Gaming. Players can track their progress and achievements through the Green Man Gaming-owned social service Playfire. "We are delighted to partner with Telltale Games to offer their current catalogue and future titles to our hungry [Green Man Gaming] audience," said Martin Baxter, executive vice president of trading at Green Man Gaming, in a press release today. You can check out Green Man Gaming's full offering of Telltale titles here.
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6 CommentsThe Wolf Among Us will include an 'evolution of choice' born from The Walking Dead, dev says
By Dave Tach on May 16, 2013 05.16.13
The Wolf Among Us, Telltale Games' upcoming adventure game set in Vertigo Comics' Fables universe, will include an "evolution" of the choice mechanics in The Walking Dead, Telltale president and co-founder Kevin Bruner told Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Bruner said that the game presents a challenge, in part because the characters and their backstories were established first in comics. That differs from Lee and Clementine in The Walking Dead, in-house creations who could be tailored to fit the story. "But we really have embraced it," Bruner told RPS. "We've come up with new storytelling techniques. We call it the evolution of choice. A big thing in Walking Dead was going where the story took you, and we would throw these choices at you, but you couldn't really determine what was going to...
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0 CommentsTelltale's The Walking Dead coming to retail in Europe and Australia May 10
By Alexa Ray Corriea on Apr 02, 2013 04.02.13
Telltale Games' The Walking Dead will be available at retail in Europe, Australia and New Zealand on May 10, the developer announced today. Retail copies of the episodic zombie thriller will be available for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. All versions will contain all five episodes on one disc and include subtitles in French, German, Italian and Spanish. The Walking Dead, set in the world of creator Robert Kirkmans' graphic novel series of the same name, was originally released one episode at a time throughout the spring and summer of 2012. The game is currently available in North America on PS3, Xbox 360, Windows PC, Mac and iOS devices. Last month PlayStation announced The Walking Dead will also be ported to PlayStation Vita, though a release window has yet to be revealed. ...
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19 CommentsDemon's Souls, Malicious and more free to PlayStation Plus members in April
By Michael McWhertor on Apr 01, 2013 04.01.13
PlayStation Plus subscribers in North America will get free access to five games in April, according to an update on the PlayStation Blog — Demon's Souls, Malicious and Labyrinth Legends for PlayStation 3; and PSP game Soulcalibur: Broken Destiny and Zombie Tycoon 2: Brainhov's Revenge for PlayStation Vita. Those games will be made available for free to PS Plus members over the next month, starting with From Software's dark, challenging role-playing game Demon's Souls on April 2. The PlayStation Store update on April 2 will also bring with it discounts on games like Telltale Games' The Walking Dead, Söldner-X2 and Rainbow Moon. This month's free PlayStation Plus offerings will replace a trio of titles leaving the Instant Game Collection in April: Spec Ops: The Line, Super Street...
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36 CommentsTelltale on why players chose the tough girl instead of the nerdy guy in The Walking Dead
By Philip Kollar on Apr 01, 2013 04.01.13
[SPOILER WARNING: This GDC 2013 talk discussed several major plot elements from The Walking Dead. If you have not finished the game and don't want anything revealed, please do not read further.] According to Vanaman and Rodkin, Telltale set out with a specific question in mind with The Walking Dead: "What does a person do with the time that they have?" Rather than use traditional gameplay, such as shooting, this question was better served with a time-sensitive decision-making system. But they also made sure that system would provide no qualitative feedback on choices that players made, so players had to think about and live with the decisions on their own. "The game players played in their heads was more dynamic than anything we could have come up with," said Vanaman. "In most games,...
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9 CommentsPaid apps aren't dead in the era of free-to-play, Capy co-founder says at GDC
By Dave Tach on Mar 27, 2013 03.27.13
Reports of the death of paid apps have been greatly exaggerated, co-founder and president of Capybara Games Nathan Vella said in a talk at GDC 2013. The Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP developer acknowledges that 2013 will likely be crowned "the era of free-to-play." As proof, he offered charts showing that 66 percent of apps published in 2012 were free-to-play. That's the inverse of the market as it was in 2010. According to Vella, the free-to-play model is in ascension because of the pricing model's recent success stories. Developers follow trends, he said. In 2010, many chased Angry Birds. Today, developers are chasing successful free-to-play hits like Clash of Clans because they see in-app purchase pricing models as the "next cash cow." But acknowledging the success of...
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2 CommentsDouble Dragon 2: Wander of the Dragons launching April 5 on XBLA, Xbox Live Spring Sale begins today
By Samit Sarkar on Mar 26, 2013 03.26.13
Double Dragon 2: Wander of the Dragons will launch April 5 on Xbox Live Arcade for 1200 Microsoft Points ($15), Microsoft's Major Nelson announced today. Achievements for the game, a 3D remake of 1988's Double Dragon 2: The Revenge, appeared earlier this month and hinted at an upcoming release. Wander of the Dragons was originally scheduled to launch in September 2011; there had been no news about it for approximately 18 months until the Achievement leak. This week's deals on the Xbox Live Marketplace include half-price discounts on Transformers: War for Cybertron ($29.99 instead of $59.99), Transformers: Fall of Cybertron ($9.99 instead of $19.99) and various pieces of DLC for both games. Those offers will be available from March 26 through April 1. Today also marks the beginning of...
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9 CommentsTelltale's The Walking Dead coming to PlayStation Vita later this year
By Tracey Lien on Mar 22, 2013 03.22.13
Telltale Games' The Walking Dead is coming to the PlayStation Vita later this year, IGN reports. PlayStation's director or product planning and platform software innovation, Don Mesa told IGN that the first season of Telltale's award-winning episodic game is making its way to the Sony handheld, which "sends a strong message" about the unique experiences the Vita can offer. "A good example is with The Walking Dead," he said. "We think that the emotion and the immersive experiences you're going to get there, wherever you're sitting, if you're in your living room and playing on your Vita or sitting in a café ... you get that shock or fright. I think that's going to be important. That's what we want to deliver as you're playing." A release period was not announced.
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11 CommentsOrigin's Player Appreciation Sale includes discounts on Dead Space 3, Crysis 3 and many more
By Dave Tach on Mar 19, 2013 03.19.13
Origin's Player Appreciation Sale is live, offering discounts on more than 200 games on EA's storefront over the next week, according to the sale's website. The discounts apply to downloads and packaged games available on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Windows PC, Mac, Wii and Wii U. Front page deals include: Assassin's Creed 3 for $34.99 as a PC download (regularly $49.99) Battlefield 3 Premium Edition for $29.99 (regularly $59.99) Crysis 3 for $29.99 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on Windows PC as a download or a physical copy (regularly $59.99) Darksiders 2 Deluxe Edition for $18 as a PC download (regularly $59.99) Dead Space 3 for $29.99 on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and on Windows PC as a download or a physical copy (regularly $59.99) Hitman: Absolution for $15 as a PC...
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6 CommentsThe Walking Dead's first episode free for PlayStation 3 in Europe, remaining episodes discounted
By Dave Tach on Mar 18, 2013 03.18.13
The Walking Dead's first episode will be free for PlayStation 3 owners in Europe beginning Wednesday, according to a post on the official European PlayStation Blog. The sale for Telltale Games' episodic adventure game will begin on Wednesday, March 20, and last until Wednesday, April 3. The game's Season Pass, which includes all episodes and normally sells for $29.95, will be discounted to $21.95. PlayStation Plus subscribers can save an additional 25 percent on the Season Pass and 50 percent on each of the game's remaining four episodes. The Walking Dead, which set in the world of Robert Kirkman's comic book, is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Windows PC and iOS. Telltale has sponsored similar sales on other platforms. The Walking Dead was Polygon's 2012 Game of the Year. Hop...
