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Telltale has announced platform and release info regarding their upcoming episodic adventure game The Walking Dead. The developer confirmed to IGN that the five-episode effort will arrive on several platforms including Xbox Live, PSN, PC, Mac and iOS. The first episode will arrive in April with the next four to …
Read More »Double Fine Kickstarter ends, raises $3,335,265
The Double Fine Kickstarter experiment has come to a close, raising some $3.33m in funding exclusively through the crowdfunding site. Over 87,000 backers piled up funds that all told ended up exceeding one of project head and designer Tim Schafer’s previous works, Grim Fandango. The effort’s original aim was to …
Read More »Brand Map: Adventure Games
WITH Q4 only weeks away, it’s time to start considering some of the action/adventure titles hitting the High Street. Both Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and Assassin’s Creed Revelations are on their way. It’s surprising to note that each of these two big brands will only be four years old in …
Read More »Doctor Who game exec to leave BBC
The man who commissioned the Sumo-made Doctor Who: The Adventure Games is to depart the BBC. Simon Nelson has worked at the BBC for 14 years, predominantly at BBC Radio, where he introduced iPlayer-forerunner Radio Player. In recent years his role over interactive widened to include all sorts of media, …
Read More »BBC recomissions Doctor Who Adventure games
Such has been the success of the PC and Mac Doctor Who Adventure Game series that the BBC has confirmed that the games will return for a second series in 2011. To date the first three Adventure Games have been downloaded over 1.6m times, with a fourth release due out …
Read More »Fly the TARDIS in third Doctor Who game
The first details about the third instalment of the Doctor Who Adventure Games series have been revealed by the BBC. Called TARDIS, the next title will for the first time allow players to pilot one of the most famous craft in the history of sci-fi. The title will also allow …
Read More »Doctor Who goes international
Having already achieved great popularity in the UK, the BBC’s Doctor Who Adventure Games series is to get an international release. BBC Interactive editor Iain Tweedale confirmed to Digital Spy that City of the Daleks, the first release in the gaming series, will be rolled out on third-party gaming sites” …
Read More »Next Doctor Who game dated
The next instalment in the Doctor Who Adventure games series will be made live on the BBC website this Saturday (June 26th) following the airing of the current TV series finale. Dubbed Blood of the Cybermen and produced by Steven Moffat, it will again feature the likenesses of Matt Smith …
Read More »BBC explains early Doctor Who release
There was a flurry of activity across Twitter last night as Doctor Who fans discovered that episode one of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games was available to download ahead of its June 5th release date. The BBC has issued a statement to MCV saying the reason this version has …
Read More »BBC explains early Doctor Who release
There was a flurry of activity across Twitter last night as Doctor Who fans discovered that episode one of the Doctor Who: The Adventure Games was available to download ahead of its June 5th release date. The BBC has issued a statement to MCV saying the reason this version has …
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