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(2011-02-18 08:00:00)

Telltale Announces The Walking Dead, Confirms Jurassic Park for April [Updatedd]

[Update: 12:10] Telltale has now announced that it is indeed making Fables games.

[Original] Adventure game wizard Telltale Games has finally confirmed the rumours that it's making a video game adaptation of Robert Kirkman's zombie comic book series 'The Walking Dead.'

Like most Telltale games, it'll be episodic, and the developer hopes to launch the first part in the fourth quarter of this year. It'll be set in the world of the comic book rather than the recent television series, though it seems questions of genre, story, characters and more are not yet settled. "Th...

(2011-02-18 08:00:00)

Telltale Announces The Walking Dead Game, Confirms Jurassic Park for April

Adventure game wizard Telltale Games has finally confirmed the rumours that it's making a video game adaptation of Robert Kirkman's zombie comic book series 'The Walking Dead.'

Like most Telltale games, it'll be episodic, and the developer hopes to launch the first part in the fourth quarter of this year. It'll be set in the world of the comic book rather than the recent television series, though it seems questions of genre, story, characters and more are not yet settled. "The game is at an early stage, and we're in the process of mapping this all out now," Kirkman told IGN.

Platforms have also y...

(2011-02-17 20:00:00)

Daily Filter: February 17, 2010

Shacknews receives a slew of new screenshots and trailers for upcoming games everyday. The most anticipated titles receive their own post, because we know you're eager to see that content. For the rest, we have the Daily Filter, a place to feature all of the media we add to our enormous database on a daily basis.

Today's Filter features a pile of new media. Check out new content for Dead Space 2, Dragon Age 2, Total War: Shogun 2, NeoGAF's (2011-02-17 18:15:00)

Dragon Age: Redemption Web Series Launches Summer 2011

Yesterday we learned that the scope of EA's Dragon Age 2 marketing machine has now set its sights on a six-part web series, featuring The Guild creator and star Felicia Day. In a brief teaser trailer, the publishing giant revealed the series, Dragon Age: Redemption, will arrive sometime this summer.

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Last night, Day appeared on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" to promote the project, revealing she has been in training to perfect the moves of her character. In the series, Day play...

(2011-02-17 17:15:00)

Report: Telltale Making Walking Dead, Fables Games

The month-old rumors of a Walking Dead game from Telltale are looking more and more true as we approach tonight's Telltale reveal event. The Wall Street Journal Network's All Things Digital reports that Telltale is set to announce that it will develop and publish a series based on AMC's The Walking Dead. In addition, the studio is reportedly working with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to develop a game based on the comic book series Fables.

Zombie thriller series The Walking Dead became a critical and commercial hit when it premiered on AMC during Halloween. Fables revolves around fairy tale characters residing in modern day New York after being forced from their homes, and it has won over a dozen Eisner awards.

The announcement that started the speculat...