Well we all knew it was coming, but Telltale has narrowed down that launch window even more this morning: confirming that their highly anticipated The Walking Dead - Season Two adventure game series will premiere sometime in December 2013. And given that today is already December 2, why that doesn't leave much waiting now at all!The first episode of a presumed five will be titled "All That Remains," and is said to feature the "familiar face" of Clementine from Season One, as per the picture in Telltale's official announcement tweet. Unfortunately, we don't have any other additional details about the upcoming premiere episode just quite yet, like what platforms The Walking Dead - Season Two will be headed to first."But considering that there's only a few weeks left of game releases before the holidays hit, we can expect to learn more in the very near future. So what does everyone think? Do we already have another Game of the Year contender sneaking into the fold this December? Let us know if you're excited about The Walking Dead - Season Two in the replies!
Do you love platforming? How about mobile phones? Maybe… five star games? Then you're going to want to perk your ears up for this. Mikey Shorts, the 2012 mobile platformer that earned a perfect score in our review, has just gone free on the App Store.If that's not enough Mikey fun, the sequel Mikey Hooks is available for a cool 99 cents. There's no word on how long the sale will be on for, but Mike Meade of BeaverTap Games tells us that this deal will only be available for a limited time.So what are you waiting for? Get platforming already!
Don't you just love it when a futuristic game about building and expanding your space station into foreign terrain starts gearing up to expand into some real-life foreign terrain itself? Namely, the futuristic game in this instance is the fantastic mobile hit rymdkapsel. And that foreign terrain? Well that just so happens to be the PC gaming platform.In today's official announcement on the rymdkapsel website, Grapefrukt Games has not only confirmed that their acclaimed mobile strategy game will be headed to PC in January, but that the upcoming release is set to feature some additional bonus content as well: including new monoliths, more missions, and even two shiny new game modes. The announcement also mentions that rymdkapsel will be getting a similar treatment on Mac and Linux around the same time via Steam."This news is especially exciting, considering how rymdkapsel happened to be one of our favorite strategy games over this past summer, and having a beefed up version on PC now can only heighten that experience. So while you wait to build a brand new space station on your PC next month, be sure to check out our near-perfect review of rymdkapsel right over here to learn exactly why you should be so excited.
While America takes a few days off for turkey and shopping, the rest of the world ticks on - and China is no exception. This week a few interesting tidbits have emerged from the People's Rebpublic, including some predictions for the Chinese mobile market in 2012 and some thoughts on why some Western games might not be succeeding as well on their side of the globe.As always, this week's top stories from China come to us courtesy of our friends at Laohu.com. If you're looking for more great gaming news from China - and happen to speak the language (or love Google Translate) - be sure to check them out at Laohu.com.
Okay fellow deal hunters and sales enthusiasts, the day is finally upon us: the Christmas, birthday, and college graduation of discounts. That's right, Black Friday is here! And as is only to be expected, hundreds of amazing new gaming deals are sprouting up all over the internet faster than you can even buy them all!So this weekend you not only have a ton of discounted games all across the App Store, but you also have massive catalogue deals on GOG.com and a wonderful new promo that features 100 great games for only $1 each! And if you think that's already way too many deals for one person to reasonably handle, I haven't even told you that Steam's annual Autumn Sale has just kicked off this week as well!Now of course, with such a universal day of widespread sales and the current rate at which they're appearing online, there's no way we're able to keep track of every single one, so if you spot another awesome Black Friday deal out there that we may have missed, please join in on the festive spirit and add it to our list in the replies below!
Looking for a great new game to put in your pocket this weekend? Papa Pear Saga, King's free-to-play spin on Peggle-style pachinko games, has finally made the jump from Facebook to mobile. The game is now available on iTunes and Google Play. If you need more reason to check it out than that, be sure to check out our four star review from this past April.Papa Pear follows King's tradition of Saga games that are finetuned on Facebook before making the jump to mobile. Candy Crush Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, and Bubble Witch Saga have all gone the same route. If you're a fan of their other games, it seems like it's only a matter of time until Farm Heroes Saga and the recently released Pepper Panic Saga follow suit.Now if you'll excuse me, I have some acorn-shaped pegs to bounce off of.
King has announced this week that the powerhouse company responsible for gaming juggernauts like Candy Crush Saga and Papa Pear Saga will be opening a brand new studio in Berlin, Germany in early 2014. The upcoming Berlin studio will join King's handful of other existing Europe-based locations in Barcelona, Bucharest, London, Malmo, and Stockholm.It certainly makes sense, given everything we've learned from our recent trip to King's studio in Stockholm last month. The company strives to keep everything regarding King completely based out of Europe, so that everyone is always working within the same time zone, and if employees need to make a trip out to a different studio, then it's only just a quick plane ride away."In speaking on the company's decision to set up shop in Berlin going forward, King CEO Riccardo Zacconi has stated, "Germany is home to an exceptional amount of games development talent and Berlin is one of Europe's leading creative hubs, so we have no doubt that the Berlin studio will produce fantastic, fun casual games that can be enjoyed by millions of people around the world."And as luck would have it, if you just so happen to live in the area, or just feel like packing up and relocating to Berlin on a whim, King needs some help filling up that shiny new studio before its 2014 grand opening, and is currently accepting job applications for numerous positions in the technical, art, and business performance departments (and don't forget our top 5 reasons of why you'll want to be working at King in the first place).
Disease is a pretty prevalent theme in entertainment. Whether we're talking about books, movies or games, there always seems to be some sort of world-ending plague right around the corner (and in the case of The Walking Dead, we can do all three: read, watch, and play!)The makers of Plague Inc., a top notch mobile game with the sort of viral success that its subject matter could only dream of, recently took to the stage at Nine Worlds Geekfest in London. They were joined by a group of scientists, and together they partook in a discussion on why the subject of disease is so popular in video games, movies, and more. It's a fascinating watch - especially if you're interested in why popular culture is so often driven by an apocalyptic case of the sniffles.The above video was a session at Nine Worlds Geekfest 2013. The session was supported by The Wellcome Trust as part their engagement with with the games, broadcast and film industries and commitment to gaming as a form of public engagement with science. They are on Twitter at; @WellcomeTrust.