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Telltale Doing Walking Dead, New Puzzle Agent, New King's Quest

Because there's always room for more zombies, gnomes, and King Graham!

The tease seemed a little too obvious, but the speculation was accurate. Telltale Games is indeed working on a game series based on The Walking Dead. The developer has inked a contract with Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman to produce multiple games across several platforms. The first game slated to hit in late 2011.

In an interview that followed the announcement, Kirkman didn’t divulge much about the games or the platforms. But he did note that the series would be episodic, as is expected with a developer like Telltale, and said that the games are to be based in the comic book universe as opposed the one seen on the AMC television series.  
 

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== TEASER ==In other Telltale in-development news, The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog is reporting that the developer is also creating a series based on Fables, which is a comic book series about fairy tale characters that live in real-world New York City.
 
Telltale's announcements certainly don't stop there. The company has revealed that it's returning to the mysterious small-town plight of Nelson Tethers with a new Puzzle Agent sequel. Even more surprisingly, the company has inked a deal with Activision to resurrect some of Sierra On-Line's classic adventure franchises, starting with a King's Quest reboot. 

 
  
 
And, lastly, the Jurassic Park series' Web site is now up. You can pre-order the upcoming five-episode series on PC and Mac for $29.99, which is about five dollars off from the normal, slow-poke price. The first game will see a release in April, so the wait won’t be too long. In the meantime, Telltale just gave us an inside look at Jurassic Park; watch it!  

 

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This is great, because just the other day I was thinking about how a new King's Quest game would be cool, but that Activision would never do it. But of course Telltale is able to make it happen. :)

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Puzzle Agent is my favorite game on my iPad. Even though it was really short, I loved the artwork and the voices. Cannot wait.

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I'm calling it:  graphical style will include heavy outlining like the comics would have, and Nolan North will play a voice acting role.

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Who wants a Kings Quest Remake from Telltale? 

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We're the AAAANTS lead by King AAAAAAANTONY, We're coming to HELP King GRAAAAHHHHHAM.

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@taco484 said:
" @Psychosocial said:
" Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest! Please make Space Quest!  *ahem* That is all... "
this! "
For real, this!
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All og this is fabulous news! Is this the road to a Quest for Glory reboot as well? Please oh god oh please oh yeah yea yea!

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Well, damn. Telltale is certainly gonna have a busy future!

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Telltale is on a tear! I'm fresh off the fantastic first episode of Back to the Future, so I can't wait for The Walking Dead. Even sweeter that they're following the plot of the graphic novels (though I did enjoy the first season of the show).
 
Excited for new Puzzle Agent as well. And Jurassic Park! So much adventuring.

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@kratier said:
" i think telltale figured it out, its cheaper to churn out crappy psn/xbl titles with 50k development funds than it is to try to strike it rich with large games  its like with cryptic, they just bank off initial sales, knowing nobody will subscribe in the longrun "
I have a hard time understanding how anybody posting on a gaming site like this could be so ignorant.  Are you seriously going to consider some of the most classic gaming franchises of all time..  Monkey Island, Sam & Max, King's Quest.. "crappy XBL/PSN games"? 
 
Are you 12?
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Kings Quest ! YAY!!!!  
 
I am waiting for a reboot of Space quest Roger Wilco FTW!!!!
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Ooo c'mon Hero's Quest next please!  
Or Space Quest.. or Police Quest.. I don't know, more Quest!

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Fables, Walking dead and Kings Quest YES, yes and YES
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Bleh, least favourite of the Quest games for me. Also, Telltale's remakes haven't really held their own against the originals so far to my mind. Puzzle Agent on the other hand was awesome, and Back to the Future was really good too. Here's hoping for their original IPs (well, as far as games are concerned at least).

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They should make less games, but better. They are wasting great licenses.

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@Danda: how are they wasting great licences, back to the future was great, sam and max was great and monkey island was great.  I can't see any reason to not trust them with these licences.  Lets at least see what they do with them before we start judging them.
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I wonder if their Walking Dead will be the story of the comics or an original story based in the world at the same time kinda like Jurassic Park? 
Either way, they cant stray anymore away from the source material than the show. 

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@kud12001: I hope they do their own story, wonder if robert kirkman will have anything to do with the writing
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@andriv: Theres no doubt he would, he writes for the tv show too.  
And I agree, an original story would probably be better in the long run. 
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@kud12001: I think he only wrote the pilot, the show still went in an interesting direction.  
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@andriv: He wrote the episode with the nursing home gangsters.  
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Telltalle continues to impress.

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Man this is going to be great, im really happy to see that telltale is growing, havent played the back to the future game yet but its probabbly great, the monkey island ones are pretty good and sam and max too.

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Too bad that Telltale's game engine looks so rotten.

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@Korwin said:
" We're the AAAANTS lead by King AAAAAAANTONY, We're coming to HELP King GRAAAAHHHHHAM. "
Fantastic.
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 I'm just wondering if their spreading themselves thin as of late, Back to the Future, Jurassic Park, Walking Dead, Puzzle Agent and Kings Quest.  It feels their over saturating the market of games their the leader in. 
 
I don't mind me a point and click adventure game here and there and their monthly episodic system is about as much as i can stand a month.  That being said Doubt I'll pick up anything until im done with the previous  (currently B2TF) 

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Yes! New Puzzle Agent!

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So more Telltale reboots of Sierra series might be on the way? I hope Phantasmagoria is next.

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I just love Telltale! New Kings Quest is great news for us old adventure game junkies.

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Imagine Telltale games in the Mass Effect 2 engine.
 
SIGH! WHY ISNT THAT REALITY!

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Count me in for the Walking Dead game. 
 
Jurassic Park, not so much...
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That is awesome!

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Every word in this article makes me excited. Hurrah for Tell Tale!

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I do wonder how many projects they can actually do concurrently and keep at least the same quality as their previous projects.

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King's Quest!!!

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They cannot be stopped...

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The Puzzle Agent 2 news is great and I can't wait to see how they resurrect King's Quest. Though the Sierra point & clicks were known for their difficulty, I don't know how that feel will transfer to TellTale games...
The other are great news too, but I'm kinda tired of adaptations myself :/

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wow telltale is on a roll!

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Kings Quest! HELL YEAH.


Will I still need my old manual to get up that damn mountain? 

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Episodic Walking Dead game...awesome.   
New King's Quest... super awesome.   
Walking Dead by the makers of Sam & Max, Strongbad, Wallace & Gromit...ummmm.  
Maybe Telltale should cut their teeth doing their first "serious" game (aside from the CSI games) on a franchise without such a rabid, devoted following.

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Don't forget their also publishing future episodes of Hector: Badge of Courage.
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Telltale is on their way to taking over the world. So many games. That studio must have grown immensely over the past couple of years.

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Zombies! and Episodic Comedy gaming. my day just got better!!!!

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I just finished Puzzle Agent, am I the only one who is creeped out by those gnomes?
 
Oh yay, more zombie games.  Ugh.

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Zombies should have won the take a break award.