{"id":28832,"date":"2013-05-12T10:28:53","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28832"},"modified":"2013-05-12T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T14:58:53","slug":"the-walking-dead-game-of-the-year-video-game-news-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/?p=28832","title":{"rendered":"The Walking Dead – Game of the Year – VIDEO GAME NEWS & UPDATE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series, Winner of over 80 Game of the Year Awards<\/strong><\/p>\n

Telltale Games, leading developer of digital entertainment, announced today that\u00a0the award-winning game series\u00a0\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0is now available for purchase from UK retailers on Xbox 360\u00ae video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment system, and PC.<\/p>\n

Published by Telltale Games and distributed in the UK exclusively by Avanquest Software,\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0game was originally an English-only digital download when the series debuted in April 2012. This new retail release includes subtitled versions in\u00a0French, Italian, German and Spanish<\/strong>for the first time. It\u00a0compiles all 5 episodes in the critically-acclaimed first season of the game on one disc.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0has earned\u00a0Game of the Year\u00a0honors from over 80 media outlets worldwide including\u00a0\u00a0Metacritic<\/em>\u00a0,\u00a0USA Today<\/em>,\u00a0\u00a0Wired<\/em>,\u00a0E! Online<\/em>,Yahoo!<\/em>,\u00a0The Telegraph<\/em>,\u00a0Mashable<\/em>,\u00a0Polygon<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0GamesRadar<\/em>,<\/strong>\u00a0and recently won the\u00a0BAFTA Video Games Awards<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for\u00a0Best Story\u00a0and\u00a0Best Mobile Game.<\/p>\n

IGN.com<\/em>\u00a0gave the final episode of the season an Editor’s Choice Award and a score of 9.5 out of 10 saying,\u00a0\u00a0“People will reference the series over and over as the benchmark for story-telling in games,”<\/em>\u00a0and summed up the game’s emotional impact by stating,\u00a0\u00a0“I cried in the final minutes, sat silently through the credits, and was speechless after the epilogue.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>is set in the world of Robert Kirkman’s award-winning comic book series.\u00a0 Players experience life-changing events, meeting new characters and some familiar to fans of the comic book series, in events that foreshadow the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes.\u00a0The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0offers an emotionally-charged, tailored game experience – a player’s actions and choices affect how their story plays out across the entire series.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead\u00a0<\/em>is rated ’18’ for ‘extreme violence, violence towards defenseless people and strong language’ by PEGI.<\/p>\n

The Walking Dead<\/em>\u00a0is available for purchase from Amazon, GAME, ASDA, Sainsbury\u2019s, Smyth\u2019s Toy Superstore, GameStop, Tesco, ShoptoNet and other online games retailers.<\/p>\n

For more information on the game, visit\u00a0the official website<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>, and follow Telltale Games on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>.\u00a0For more information on\u00a0The Walking Dead,<\/em>Robert Kirkman, and all of his titles, visit\u00a0www.Skybound.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fast facts:<\/strong>
\nDeveloper and Publisher: Telltale Games
\nDistributor: Avanquest Software Publishing
\nRelease date: May 10th
\nPEGI Rating: 18
\nFormats: PS3, Xbox 360, PC
\nSRP: \u00a329.99 on PS3 & Xbox, \u00a319.99 on PC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Based on Robert Kirkman’s comic book series, Winner of over 80 Game of the Year Awards Telltale Games, leading developer of digital entertainment, announced today that\u00a0the award-winning game series\u00a0\u00a0The Walking Dead\u00a0is now available for purchase from UK retailers on Xbox 360\u00ae video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation\u00ae3 computer entertainment system, and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[532,7506,4361],"class_list":["post-28832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boxing-news","tag-news","tag-walking-dead","tag-zombie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28832"}],"version-history":[{"count":-4,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ringsidereport.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}