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The role-playing game genre's focus on stories has always drawn me. Having a reason to play beyond "let's get to the end" is a powerful lure. For over two decades, I've enjoyed watching characters grow to save the world. The ending credits always matter so much more with the added... More

It’s easy to write off a video game based on a TV show as a company’s way to cash in on the property. While not all of the games in the list below do that, most of them do. That’s a shame. Multiple video games exist for the five shows below – but we think they can do better. A... More

Our April issue is now available , and that means readers are checking out our annual Game Infarcer parody feature. Just like our real magazine, the cover of Infarcer is a big deal, and now you can read about how it was created. For 2013, the talented Zander Cannon (of Double Barrel ) returned to bring... More

Telltale Games' The Walking Dead was one of 2012's surprising success stories, racking up numerous Game of the Year awards ( 80 according to Telltale ) with an interactive experience that made many gamers grab a Kleenex . I spoke with Dan Connors, CEO and co-founder of Telltale Games and executive... More

Players have had their choice of zombie games for years now. But recent experiments like the ARMA II mod DayZ and the controversial The War Z have opened up the apocalyptic formula with an online, open-world design. Neither title is polished, but the concept itself has kept gamers enamored. Our time... More

This year’s most beloved protagonist isn’t a war hero, assassin, or space marine; she’s an eight-year-old girl. Yes, there’s something about Clementine, and when she stepped onto the screen in Telltale’s The Walking Dead with her oversized blue-and-white baseball cap, messy... More

It is difficult to talk about The Walking Dead without spoiling some of the game's shocking moments, but we wanted to wait until people had time to play episode five before we posted an episode of Spoiled. While there were spoilers for a couple of key scenes from the first episode in our discussion... More

Throughout the month we will be posting articles and videos dedicated to celebrating the greatest games of the year. When constructing our list of the top 50 games for the latest issue of the magazine , The Walking Dead from Telltale Games was a shoe-in. Carried on the back of the game's excellent... More

I have this notebook that I used to write in as a kid filled with possible game ideas. My young brain imagined a Zelda RTS with eight factions, and a 3D platformer featuring a beaver named Reggie Crenshaw. Every so often, one of my crazy ideas would be crossed off when a real developer decided to actually... More

The Walking Dead isn’t Telltale Games’ first foray into episodic gaming; The Sam & Max, Jurassic Park, and Back to the Future series were all attempts to strike gold with the formula. With over 4 million episodes already sold, however, The Walking Dead is definitely the most successful... More

Led by CEO Dan Connors and CTO Kevin Bruner, who founded the company together, Telltale Games has c arved out a unique nich e in the industry with episodic adventure games based on major entertainment properties . The company’s recent Walking Dead series is its fastest-selling yet. We recently... More

The Walking Dead is an amazing comic book series, a popular television show (although I don't like it), and now an enthralling, episodic video game adventure. Ben Reeves, Ben Hanson, and Jason "Ben" Oestreicher joined me for a look at the game's intense introductory moments. Although... More