The Walking Dead’s next iOS game will shuffle out of Finnish startup Next Games

Helsinki startup Next Games has won a deal to make a new The Walking Dead mobile game based on the popular television series.

Next Games and the AMC cable network announced that the Finnish game company is developing an iOS release that will cater to the series’ fans. The show is the No. 1 television program among adults ages 18 to 49 in the U.S. Telltale Games continues to work separately on its highly acclaimed PC adventure game, which is on iOS as well.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.