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Child’s Play
Why can’t videogames find a meaningful place for children?
The Walking Dead
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The Walking Dead’s penultimate episode is strangely subdued
Things are quiet … too quiet.
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I had a panic attack while playing The Walking Dead. Is this a good thing?
What games can help us overcome.
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The Wolf Among Us’s finale feels surprisingly real-life for a comicbook
Whose fantasy is this?
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TV and film are full of bad dads, but games are doing better
“[On TV] if there is a dad in the home, he is an idiot. It must have reflected our own discomfort with dads being competent,” said Hanna Rosin on a panel about the future of fatherhood this weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival. “You put a dad in front of his kid, and the dad gives the worst advice. Y
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Prepare to agonize over moral choices in the Walking Dead pinball game. Yes, really
In one of the most unlikely crossovers yet, Telltale is bringing their trademark zombie apocalypse-inspired moral choices to the pinball table. You won’t just be shooting the silver ball off bumpers to crush the undead then up a ramp to load Kenny’s pickup when the game comes out later this summer.
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Walking Dead writer to pen next Star Wars, hopefully Wookiee outbreak to ensue
Gary Whitta, a writer who penned three previous episodes of The Walking Dead for Telltale, has been hired to write the screenplay for the next Star Wars film. Whitta started out as a games journalist, so he has made a major transition. The rumor is the 2016 film will focus on a non-central character
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This sea-faring sim lets you romance your crew or eat them. Your choice, really
With The Walking Dead and Gods will be Watching and now Sunless Sea, a dark and Melvillian account of life on the open ocean, cannibalism is quickly becoming the hot new trend in games. OK, maybe three games doesn’t exactly constitute a trend, but we’ll wait and see. The interesting thing about this
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Last Life will be a Kentucky Route Zero-style adventure game, says dev. We say: hooray!
Remember Last Life? Of course, you do. Who could forget that smoking-hot noir/sci-fi adventure game with an art style like Grim Fandango and a twisty transhumanist subplot. Well, we know a good bit more about the details now that it’s, like, 30 minutes from being officially funded, raking in over 1
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Kentucky Route Zero dev says moral choices in games are pretty worthless
Moral choices in games come in one of two or three colors. You can go with killing the zombie-infected kid, or you let him live. Speaking with GameChurch, who continues to consistently pump out thoughtful, provocative interviews, the devs of Kentucky Route Zero called into question the ridiculous, b
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A Crooked Mile proves that The Wolf Among Us still has bite
Telltale plumbs the depths. (It’s sort of what they do.)
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The post-apocalyptic Dead Synchronicity recalls Telltale’s darkest work
Amnesia? What amnesia? Whose?