This announcement was inevitable but it’s still a sad one that we have to bring you, the loyal Zombie Friendly readers of the ZRC Blog: Yes, there will be a ‘Walking Dead’ videogame:

Can’t get enough heart-wrenching, emotion inducing zombie based games? Of course you can’t. No one can. So, you’ll be pleased to hear that we’ll all be getting a new one.

Telltale Games has announced that it’s got the license to make the game of the TV series of the novels of the comics of the zombesque Walking Dead.

“The rumours are true”, says the company, “we’re working on a game based on Robert Kirkman’s Eisner award-winning comics series The Walking Dead!”, see.

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We do, however, discover that the game will be episodic.

Telltale Games is best known for working on the ‘Sam and Max’ and ‘Wallace and Gromit’ games, though they also had success with a recent game adaptation of ‘Back to the Future’. They specialize in episodic content, so that last part is no real surprise.

Still, who better to adapt a seemingly endless comic book, which often takes years to see any significant advancement in the story, than Telltale Games? Perhaps they can capture the true ‘Walking Dead’ experience, where in between releases you forget who almost all the interchangeable supporting characters are, and then spend as much time reviewing as reading in a vain attempt to discern why, precisely, all the Living people are so bloody stupid and self-destructive.

Don’t worry if you can’t figure that one out; neither could I.

Between this and ‘Dead Island’ the ZRC’s going to have to think about getting another next-gen console. Maybe setting up a secondary gaming area in the Zombie Shelter downstairs too.

Tags: Comics, Videogames

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