Robert Kirkman’s comic series, The Walking Dead, is about zombies. Unsurprisingly, the team has heard many game pitches for the property, as, you know, the whole zombie thing. The hit AMC show probably didn’t dampen interest, either. Telltale snagged the license by wanting to make a game that wasn’t just about shooting and brains.
“We really wanted to focus on the human story,” said Telltale marketing director Richard Iggo. READ MORE
505 Games and NaturalMotion are back with another football game, this time on Xbox Live Arcade. The original Backbreaker was praised for its realistic physics and animations, but was trashed for its inconsistent gameplay. Backbreaker: Vengeance takes the Tackle Alley game mode from the original and adds in two more modes: Vengeance and Supremacy. $15 for a few mini-games does seem pretty steep. READ MORE
I don’t expect much from a Transformers game. All I want is to control giant robots that can change into cars, shoot other giant robots until they explode and be able to switch between combat and vehicle form at will. That’s it. Thankfully, Transformers: Dark of the Moon delivers on all of those points and is a fun, if shallow, game all the way through. READ MORE
Nintendo’s certainly released board-game-style party games in the West. We’ve gotten eight Mario Party games (and one more’s on the way), and we also got Wii Party, a very similar outing. Still, there’s been one franchise in the genre that the company has largely kept in its pocket, never letting it see release out of Japan: the Itadaki Street series. With the release of Fortune Street, you may be wondering: what the heck is it?
