Telltale Games CEO Kevin Bruner said in a recent interview with Mashable that the third season of its Walking Dead adventure series will get underway sometime this year. The studio has a “really cool and unexpected” plan for dealing with all the possible endings to TWD season two, he added: “From a role-playing, interactive storytelling...
The Descendant does not start off on a happy note: After climate change wrecks the planet, humanity nukes itself into a state of near-extinction. A few thousand “descendants of humanity” are selected for cryogenic suspension in underground bunkers called Arks, where it’s hoped they’ll survive the devastation and eventually emerge, to begin the process of...
The fifth episode of Minecraft: Story Mode, entitled Order Up, will be out on March 29, and here’s a surprise: It will not mark the end of the game. Developer Telltale Games announced today that three more “post-season episodes” are on the way. That tracks with what Telltale said ahead of the release of the...
Wadjet Eye Games founder Dave Gilbert has announced on the Adventure Game Studio forums that his next project will be a dark, supernatural thriller called Unavowed. And unlike recent Wadjet Eye releases, this one is (mostly) all his: He said it’s the first original game he’s written in two years, and his first all-new IP since...
We liked the ruggedly beautiful deep-woods fire-watching sim Firewatch quite a bit. And as it turns out, so did quite a lot of other people. Publisher Panic recently revealed on its blog that the game sold roughly 500,000 full-priced copies in its first month of release, and that sales were strong enough that it was...
Telltale is doing a Batman series, in case you’d forgotten, and har har Robin Will Remember That. Or maybe not—A few details about its latest episodic adventure emerged out of SXSW yesterday, and the “extended Bat-family” will be notable by their absence. Firstly—and perhaps most importantly—the creative leads behind Tales from the Borderlands and The...
The Guest is a “first-person exploration game” in which you’re locked inside a gloomy hotel room and have to figure out who’s responsible for putting you there, and why they’ve done it. It’s set in the 1980s and promises to be a moody, mysterious experience, with “events where we will control our character in a...
