Telltale reveals a third season for The Walking Dead
The dead aren’t done walking yet. Developer Telltale Games revealed a short trailer for the third season of The Walking Dead, its episodic, zombie-based game...
Warren Spector wants to mine new ’emergent gameplay’ from System Shock’s nostalgia
All of Warren Spector’s games over the past few decades have been about “emergent gameplay,” which give players choices so that they can solve...
Telltale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is coming to Wii U
The first episode, The Order of the Stone, releases on January 21 for $5. Telltale promises that additional episodes will follow in the coming weeks. Players can also buy a $20 season pass that nets them episodes 2 through 5 once they become available.
Oxenfree is a touching story about friendship and unexpected death
After finishing Oxenfree, I quickly realized just how well it pulls off interactive storytelling. Developed by Night School Studio, which is made of former Disney...
Telltale is making a Batman game
The Caped Crusader is going episodic. A trailer unveiled at The Game Awards today revealed Telltale’s Batman. It’s coming out in 2016 for consoles,...
Telltale’s Game of Thrones’ season finale is worth the long wait
One thing that HBO’s Game of Thrones television series has taught me is that magic is real, but it can’t make your problems disappear. So...
Unity has democratized game development, but CEO John Riccitiello worries about too much VR hype
Unity Technologies has armed more than 2 million developers with the tools to make video games. And those developers have shown a lot of...
Last episode of Telltale’s Game of Thrones arrives on November 17
Coincidentally, Telltale’s Game of Thrones ends just as winter is about to come. The developer announced today that the sixth and final part of...
How Lionsgate is trying to break the movie-game curse
Since Peter Levin joined movie studio Lionsgate last year as head of interactive ventures and games, he has been a heavy dealmaker. Levin has...
Minecraft: Story Mode understands that the blocky world is worth exploring deeper
It’s probably not easy to make something that shares its name with one of the most popular and beloved releases of all time, and yet...