It would have been much more of a story had it gone the other way, but AMC renewed The Walking Dead for its fifth season after four episodes aired of their fourth. Given that Robert Kirkman and company are working on a second TWD series that will take place in the same universe independent of the current series and comic books, I think AMC may as well just renew the series for three years. A two-hour zombie block of TV will be coming starting with TWD’s seventh season and the debut of whatever the spinoff (though it’s not technically) will be entitled.
Arguably the game of the year last year, The Walking Dead game produced by Telltale Games put you in the shoes of another band of survivors that interacted a bit with Rick’s but mostly went their own way. It was, in many way, an old-fashioned adventure game with point and click interface. It had a spectacular dialogue choice = game consequence system in that the characters around you will remember what you say and do to such an extent that later game play is dictated by what they think about you. After a devastating ending to season one, season two will pick up this fall. The most astonishing achievement of the game was the bond developed between the main character and a little girl he comes across early on: Clementine. Far from being an escort mission-style eye rolling burden, Clem becomes such a three-dimensional character that you would do (and likely have) anything to protect her. She’ll be back in season two and the first trailer for the game is below.
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