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Silent Hill 2 remake devs join forces with The Walking Dead creators on an unnamed horror gameDec 21, 2023 - VG247Bloober Team, the studio behind the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake, is working with Skybound Entertainment on a new project. Yesterday, via a press release, Bloober Team announced that it is developing a game based on a licensed IP from Skybound, the entertainment company founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. The project is apparently a horror game, so obviously it would be fair to guess that it's a new Walking Dead game, though it's not necessarily the case. There's also titles like the supernatural series Outcast, or the medical horror Witch Doctor, so there are a few possibilities on the table. In a statement, Bloober Team CEO Piotr Babieno said, "This project is another step in our second-party strategy, where we work with external partners to provide our horror know-how," as translated by GamesRadar. "These are titles that are meant to not only give us financial profit, but are the next steps in achieving our strategy by the end of 2027. We have known our friends from Skybound for a long time and I am sure it will be a successful cooperation." Read more Celebrate 20 Years of The Walking Dead with the Anniversary Sale!Oct 20, 2023 - Community AnnouncementsThe Walking Dead 20th Anniversary Sale is happening now! Get up to 75% off select titles until November 3. Click here for the full list of deals. 🔪 The Walking Dead: Betrayal https://store.steampowered.com/app/1877320 🧢 The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series - 75% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/1449690 https://store.steampowered.com/app/207610 https://store.steampowered.com/app/866800 🧟 The Walking Dead: 400 Days - 35% OFF https://store.steampowered.com/app/207620Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood Launches into Early Access!Apr 13, 2023 - Community Announcementshttps://store.steampowered.com/app/2354600/Renfield_Bring_Your_Own_Blood/ Inspired by the events of the movie from Universal Pictures, Dracula has tasked you with a simple job - do everything he wants you to do for the rest of his immortal life. It's a demanding gig, but the benefits are great - immortality, mystic powers and a high-fiber diet of mostly insects. Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood is a single-player adventure that combines the simplicity of one-touch gameplay with frenetic, room-based action for a new roguelite experience. With unique stages, dozens of enemies, diabolical bosses and enough weapons for a bug-powered bloody rampage, Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood shows you the ups and downs of being the lackey/employee of the most demanding boss in history - Dracula. This Early Access Launch includes only the first morsel of content—there are more features on the roadmap, including: New levels and bosses New enemies and victims New weapons and talents New playable characters Expanded achievements, features, and unlockables So stay tuned, say your affirmations, and tell your boss to suck it as Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood grows to full power!Pre-Order Clementine + Lee Level 52 Collector’s Statue NOWOct 29, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone, One of our most sought after collector’s items is now available for pre-order! Designed and produced by premium collectible makers Level 52 Studios, in close consultation with Robert Kirkman and members of the Telltale team, this is a must-have item for any Telltale’s The Walking Dead fan. This statue arrives in Level 52 Studios’ premium art box packaging. It looks incredible on a shelf or could be used as bookends for your video game collection or Walking Dead comics! We know a lot of fans on our social channels have been clamoring for this item so we’re now happy to say you can pre-order it today! Check out here for more info or contact our helpdesk for specific questions here, or on our Discord. And if you have some more time to spare today, please check out our Skybound Halloween Xpo Livestream here. We’ve got a ton of great panels, including a chat with Lee and Clem themselves, Dave Fennoy and Melissa Hutchison! That and tons of more interesting news, panels, exclusive reveals, and more across the Skybound universe. Thanks and Happy Halloween everyone! Skybound GamesThe genius of The Walking Dead's Lee EverettAug 13, 2021 - PCGamesNIt's been eight years since we first met Lee Everett. The Georgia man was on a one-way trip to prison after being found guilty of murder, his life spiralling into chaos and ruin. The writers of The Walking Dead cleverly, intertwined Lee's backstory with one very big mystery: did he murder his wife's lover? As is so often the case, the reality of the situation was far more complicated than it first seemed. I began my journey desperate to uncover the truth about Lee's past, but I stuck around because of his warmth, selflessness, and courage. When the zombie apocalypse struck, the world changed forever. The rules that governed civilised society went out the window as panicked survivors adopted an 'everyone for themselves' mentality. Lee was different. He defied our prejudiced expectations, which were based upon what the audience thought it knew of his past, and showed us the importance of compassion and cooperation. He also taught Clementine - a helpless young girl marooned in her own treehouse - how to survive against almost impossible odds. This relationship would form the bedrock of season one, touching the hearts of players around the world and changing the way we think about zombie games forever. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best adventure games on PC in 2021 Want a The Last of Us PC game? Try these Someone you've (probably) never heard of is buying Telltale Games' IP Clementine Returns in Skybound X Comics + B.Y.E. Debuts for Skybound GamesApr 23, 2021 - Community AnnouncementsHi everyone, It’s been over 2 years since the #StillNotBitten team and Skybound Games closed the final chapter of Telltale’s The Walking Dead with the release of The Final Season – “Take Us Back.” Since then, we know our incredible community of fans have clamored for a continuation of Clementine’s story and the remarkable world she inhabited. So we are ecstatic to report that Clementine will make her first appearance ever in a comic book in the recently announced SKYBOUND X! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3576960/4bd9dda5505ea13acf7e9258be04126991434d15.jpg With Robert Kirkman’s (creator of The Walking Dead) blessing and in partnership with acclaimed author Tillie Walden, SKYBOUND X will celebrate Skybound’s tenth anniversary and include all-new stories from The Walking Dead universe (including an alt-universe Rick Grimes 2000!) that no fan should miss. The event series will include five weekly issues of the comic book and it kicks off Wednesday, July 7! You can find more info here. While we have no info to share for new Clementine related interactive experiences at this time, we're excited for her story to continue from two of the most acclaimed voices in comics, Robert Kirkman and Tillie Walden. Robert and Tillie know the care and attention fans expect for Clementine and are dedicated to delivering an amazing, authentic, new story for her biggest fans. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3576960/ca98f90125462ff5411e372e69f4c3cf8acea5c6.png Looking for other games that tug at the heartstrings and have incredible narrative? With an overwhelmingly positive 98% user review score on Steam and wide critical acclaim, Before Your Eyes from GoodbyeWorld Games and Skybound Games, lets you embark on an emotional first-person narrative adventure where you control the story—and affect its outcomes—with your real-life blinks. We hope you’ll agree that this game will leave as an indelible mark on your soul as Clem did. Until next time, we thank you again and stay safe! -Skybound GamesWant a The Last of Us PC game? Try theseFeb 16, 2021 - PCGamesNThe Last of Us Part II is on its way to PlayStation 4 imminently, much to the excitement of fans. PC players, however, never got to experience the melancholy world it takes place in. Sadly, we can't convince Naughty Dog to put the original on PC, and the devs have stopped replying to our emails petitioning them to do so. Which is rude. But what we can do is give you a list of PC games that are akin to the classic zombie game for your survival pleasure. Now, we can't promise you that any one of these games will be able to recreate The Last of Us perfectly, it would be foolish for any dev to attempt that. But each one of these games masters an aspect of The Last of Us's gameplay, narrative, or something other aspect that makes it so special. Of course if you really want to play The Last of Us, you can just do that, but these titles have specific things about them that might appeal to you for individual reasons. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: The best adventure games on PC Someone you've (probably) never heard of is buying Telltale Games' IP The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series launches on the Epic store in September The best adventure games on PCAug 26, 2020 - PCGamesNWhat are the best adventure games? From 1976's text-based Adventure - that gave the genre its name - through the point-and-click golden age of the '90s and up to more modern fare, few genres have endured quite so well as the adventure game. That multi-decade lifespan has produced some of the most astounding titles, so it is certainly a struggle to narrow down a list of the best adventure games. Adventure games have prospered thanks to a focus on story and character. That, and a few tricky brain teasers, as opposed to violence set the genre apart. Characters usually get by through talking or thinking instead of resorting to fighting - though, Full Throttle protagonist Ben might have a few things to say about that. We frequently return to our lists to make sure they are as up-to-date as possible and represent the very best the genre has to offer, so you can be confident that what we list below are nothing less than classics. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Want a The Last of Us PC game? Try these Someone you've (probably) never heard of is buying Telltale Games' IP The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series launches on the Epic store in September The 8 bleakest post-apocalypses in PC gamesJun 19, 2020 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun One Off The List is our weekly list feature. Is there something you think doesn’t deserve to be on this list? Comment with your reasons why, and next week it may be struck off. Post-apocalyptic videogames, the ultimate escape. How wonderful to venture to a strange land, so different from our own, and see what the world may look like an entire week from now. Well, today the PlayStation clan secluded themselves behind their barricades with The Last Of Us Part 2, leaving the PC tribe to suffer in the harsh elements of reality alone. But never fear, wanderer. Here are some similar games to play if you want to leave your austere existence behind, and indulge in a grim struggle instead. Pull up a plastic bucket, break open a tin of Pedigree Chum, here are the 8 bleakest post-apocalypses in PC gaming. A post-apocalyst. (more…) The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is out now from Skydance Interactive!Jan 24, 2020 - Community AnnouncementsWe congratulate our friends at Skydance Interactive for their successful launch of this new chapter in The Walking Dead universe, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners! It is great to see players entering a new part of the walker filled world, meeting new characters and experiencing new stories in this series' first jump into VR. We wish all the tourists playing right now the best of luck in their journey through post-apocalyptic New Orleans! Check out the game now!Telltale's The Walking Dead games are coming back to SteamJan 21, 2020 - PC GamerThe Walking Dead games were delisted from Steam in late 2018, a victim of the surprise implosion of developer Telltale Games. New series owner Skybound Games later brought them back to the Epic Games Store, and they remain available on Steam for people who have already purchased them. You can also see them there, but not purchase them, if you have a direct link like the ones below, although the store pages no longer appear in searches. That will soon change, as Skybound announced today that Telltale's The Walking Dead Season 1, Season 2, A New Frontier, and The Final Season will all be re-released on Steam later this week. None of them are currently available for purchase, but they'll go for $15 each when they are. In the meantime, if you want to get a taste of what they're all about, a 2.5GB demo for The Final Season is still available via the Steam page. It's not necessarily the best deal at regular price—The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on the Epic Games Store includes all four seasons, plus 400 Days and Michonne, with graphical enhancements and bonus content for ten bucks cheaper—but if you really want to keep your stuff on Steam, here you go. Skybound didn't say whether any of the Walking Dead games will also be brought to GOG—The Final Season was released there, but was removed in 2018 at the same time as the Steam edition. Skybound also has a new Walking Dead VR game coming out in a couple of days called Saints and Sinners. It's set to go live on January 23 for $40/£31/€34, and will support the Valve Index, HTC Vive. Oculus Rift, and Windows Mixed Reality headsets. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is out nowSep 10, 2019 - PC GamerThe Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is out today, collecting the entirety of Clem's harrowing seven-year journey, as well as the spin-offs, giving you 23 episodes to play through. If you've somehow escaped the undead narrative adventure's grasp since the series first started in 2012, it's a pretty good package. There's also ten hours of developer commentary, a documentary short and the graphic black mode that brings the game closer to its comic inspiration. The launch of this complete edition is a little bittersweet, however, as the studio responsible for some of the best modern adventure games didn't get to see its flagship series conclude. Publisher Skybound Entertainment helped finish off the last season and is also responsible for putting together this definitive edition. Since closing, however, the Telltale name and several licenses have been bought and the studio appears to be back in business, though under new management and without a lot of the original developers. Some have returned, though, and while the future of the resurrected studio isn't clear in regards to new games, it does at least mean the likes of Batman and The Wolf Among Us are back on sale. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is out now on the Microsoft Store and Epic Games Store. The Walking Dead: The Definitive Series collection is out todaySep 10, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun Telltale’s complete run of Walking Dead story-o-adventures is now available bundled up The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, with a few bonus bits and pieces too. That’s 23 episodes across four seasons, a miniseries, and one interstitial, stuffed into one digital bag with a load concept art, a music player, and the option to play the whole series with the comic book-y “graphic black” art style introduced late in the run. With no upgrade discount for owning any of the originals, The Definitive Series is probably more for newcomers and completionists – but maybe you’re one of those? (more…) The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is coming soonJul 1, 2019 - PC GamerTelltale's The Walking Dead concluded this year after four seasons, ending Clem's seven-year saga. Now that it's all wrapped up, Skybound is releasing The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, which collects all four seasons and their spin-offs in one bundle. Picking up the definitive series will net you all of Telltale's undead adventure games, including The Walking Dead: Michonne, the 400 Days DLC and various bonuses. That's 23 episodes, 10 hours of developer commentary, behind-the-scenes stuff and a documentary. While this collection doesn't remaster the games, there is a new visual mode. The graphic black mode is an homage to the monochrome comics and was previously released with the Final Season. The collection makes it available in all the games. "Graphic black is a loving tribute to the source material and a powerful art style that makes the game look like a living comic book," said Kent Mudle, creative director. "An idea the team formulated and perfected with The Final Season, this new visual styling offers longtime fans a way to play the series again in a brand-new light while giving new audiences a smooth visual ride across all seasons." Despite being called The Telltale Definitive Series, Telltale Games is no more. It closed down before the end of The Final Season, leaving people suddenly without jobs and without severance pay. At least one employee had recently moved for the job. Those developers, unfortunately, are unlikely to benefit from the re-release, though Skybound did say it would use former Telltale staff where possible when it was finishing The Final Season. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is due out on the Microsoft Store and the Epic Games Store on September 10. GOG announce a last call for Telltale Games leaving on May 27thMay 23, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunThe sad saga of Telltale’s fall is due one last tragic chapter. GOG have just announced that all of the defunct choose-your-own-adventure studio’s games will be de-listed next Monday, May 27th at 11am BST. That includes Telltale’s own games like Puzzle Agent, and all three seasons of Sam & Max adventures, as well as licensed games like The Wolf Among Us, Guardians Of The Galaxy, Batman, and the excellent Tales From The Borderlands. The last of which has already been removed from Steam, though publisher 2K Games are working to bring it (and it alone) back, as reported by Eurogamer. (more…) Say goodbye to Clementine with this Walking Dead cosplayApr 27, 2019 - PC GamerPhotography by Creative Wolves. Clementine feels like family. Over the course of The Walking Dead games we've played her substitute father Lee, her substitute uncle Javi, and we've played her while she acted as a substitute mother for AJ, bringing it full circle. After getting to know Clementine so well it's been hard to say goodbye to her and the rest of the cast in The Walking Dead: The Final Season, made even harder by the fact we were saying goodbye to Telltale Games at the same time. Czech cosplayers Mary and Feinobi have been with these characters for the long haul as well. One of Mary's first cosplays was Lilly—the survivor who loses her father and turns on the group in the first season—back in 2012. "Telltale games even shared it on their Facebook profile," she recalls. "It was the first time somebody noticed me and I remember how happy I was." With her partner Feinobi she's been doing more ambitious cel-shaded costumes for the last five years or so, the latest of which sees them cosplaying as Clementine and a walker from the Final Season. Feinobi describes the difficulty of getting that comic-book art style onto skin and clothes as involving "a lot of trial and error". Photography by Reflektierte Wahrheit. They use fabric paint on the clothes and a combination of bodypaint and makeup on the skin, trying to match them for a uniform look that makes them resemble screenshots from the games. For Feinobi's zombie face they had to get particularly creative. "It’s actually sculpted mask made out of latex and foam, with a movable jaw and two small holes next to fake eyes for me to see." "Both costumes took about two months to make," says Mary. "The biggest challenge was making the wounds on the walker. Feinobi made them to look like deep wounds by sculpting and painting, which created a better illusion of decay. There wasn’t really a challenge on Clementine, just a lot of painting." The most fun part, she adds, was making the Disco Broccoli toy Clementine carries to keep AJ amused. Mary and Feinobi were joined by Mary's mother, who cosplayed as Lilly when they went to PragoFFest earlier this year. "She has started to cosplay with us and really wanted to try competing," Mary says. "The audience enjoyed our skit and we even won a special prize from one of the judges for costume accuracy." Though it's sad for them to say goodbye to these characters, this videogame family has drawn a real family closer. Mary and Feinobi initially met through cosplay and have been together for six years. "It’s our hobby," Mary says, "we help each other out and enjoy cosplaying together. We even plan a Legacy of Kain-themed wedding." Photography by Reflektierte Wahrheit. Photography by Butrix Production. My favourite moment in The Walking Dead so far was a mistake I madeJan 19, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunZombie choose-o-drama The Walking Dead: The Final Season released its third episode this week, after a short delay as Telltale sadly closed its doors and Skybound took over development (thankfully with at least some of the former workers on board). I haven t finished it yet, because who has time to finish video games nowadays, even episodic ones that are only a few hours long. But I did play and enjoy the second episode close to its release, and a combination of choices and mistakes I made stood out to me, so: here is a story of how I messed up. Spoilers for episode two below! (more…) The Walking Dead s penultimate episode gets one more trailer before launchJan 7, 2019 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunLife in a post-zombaplocalyptic world has never been easy for Clem, and judging from the new trailer for The Walking Dead: The Final Season‘s next episode – Broken Toys – she’s preparing for war. Produced under new studio Skybound Games (thankfully using former Telltale talent), the third of four episodes will be available to all existing season owners on January 15th on all stores. Those late to the party won’t be able to pick it up on Steam or GOG anymore as the game has become an Epic Games Store exclusive. The end is nigh, give or take one more episode – give it a peek below. (more…) The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be an Epic Store exclusive (unless you already own it)Dec 20, 2018 - PC GamerThe Walking Dead: The Final Season was delisted from Steam and GOG in September, shortly after Telltale's wheels came off. The series was eventually picked up by Skybound Games, which said in November that the games would be "back online ASAP." Today that finally happened, with a little bit of a twist. People who purchased the game on Steam or GOG will get the rest of the episodes in the series on their original platform, but for everyone else, it will only be available for purchase on the Epic Games Store. "The team at Epic owns a major chapter in the history of the game industry. We’re excited to work together on their latest transformative event with the launch of the Epic Games Store," Skybound CEO Ian Howe and president of interactive Dan Murray said in a joint statement. "Epic stepped up to the plate immediately to work with us in order to bring the original team back together and ensure fans will receive the completed season of Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season." The Walking Dead: The Final Season is now listed on the Epic Store but isn't currently available for purchase, so there's no information on pricing. The Steam listing is still in place but has no purchase links; instead there's a message stating that "existing Season Pass purchasers will get automatic access to Episodes 3 & 4 on Steam on their release date." There's no visible listing for it at all on GOG right now. The Walking Dead: The Final Season comes out on January 15. To be perfectly clear about it, if you've previously purchased the game elsewhere, you do not need to re-buy it on the Epic Store. Skybound also called on the talents of Clementine voice actor Melissa Hutchison to answer some frequently asked questions: Older TWD seasons will remain available on their original platforms, cloud saves will carry over, and Skybound is not currently working on any other Telltale games. Skybound Games aims to finish The Walking Dead entirely with former Telltale staffOct 19, 2018 - PC GamerSkybound Games revealed a couple of weeks ago that it would finish work on The Walking Dead: The Final Season, which had been left in limbo following the collapse of Telltale Games. It also committed to working with members of the Telltale development team on the project, a small bit of good news for at least some of its former employees. In a recent AMA on Reddit, Skybound CEO Ian Howe went even further, saying that the goal is to build the entire TWD development team out of ex-Telltalers. "The plan is for it to be staffed 100% by former Telltale staff, the only time we'd look elsewhere is if we can't fill a particular role from former TT people," Howe wrote. "I can't go into details but the team will be working directly for Skybound to complete game." It won't be a wholesale transplant of the team from Telltale to Skybound, as Howe explained that "people roll on and off of projects" as their development progresses. "That means there are people who were on the team who were close to rolling off onto something else," he wrote. "It's unfair to ask someone to come back and do a couple of weeks work, especially if that would get in the way of another job offer, so this is just one example of some of the challenges we face." The story itself will not be changed, however, and Clementine's story will conclude as it was meant to: "The process of developing the narrative isn’t changing, there is a long standing collaboration between the writers and Skybound over story approval and all the same people will still be involved." There's no word as to when all of this will happen, as development hasn't actually resumed yet, and "until we're back into production, it's going to be nearly impossible to give an accurate ." But it may not be too much of a wait, as Howe said he expects Episode 3 to be out before the end of the year. "I'll be very disappointed if we can't make that happen," he said. He also left the door open to DLC, or possibly even new Telltale-style games. "Our first priority it to complete the story, once we feel that we're in good shape to do that, we'll look at all the other possibilities and we love hearing the ideas and suggestions," he said. "There nothing in active development yet, but we're always talking about how we can tell interesting stories in games. I'm really spending a lot of time at the moment looking at new technologies and how that can allow us to deliver strong narrative based games."
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