Gaming
Overkill’s The Walking Dead Confirmed For 2016 Release
Last August, developer Overkill announced it was working on a new The Walking Dead game, and according to publisher Starbreeze, it would focus on cooperative gameplay. Today, Starbreeze confirmed the game is coming to Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC, and won’t be released until sometime in 2016.
Starbreeze also announced it would be publishing the games on consoles under an agreement with 505 Games. For a $10 million USD license fee, 505 Games will publish The Walking Dead on Xbox One and PS4. The partnership comes as no surprise considering the two companies worked together on Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. They also collaborated on the hugely successful Payday series, evidence that they work well together.
The new The Walking Dead game will be Payday-esque, but with a larger world. The company says it will “deliver a completely new co-op experience to The Walking Dead universe, exploring new characters and storylines.” Gameplay wise, it will be a first-person cooperative shooter which Starbreeze says will incorporate action, role-playing, and stealth. And, like any good zombie game, survival horror. Similar to other The Walking Dead titles, players will assume the role of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world that will apparently be set in 2016 Washington.
The game will be set in the same universe as the comics, not the TV show. It will have no connection to with Telltale’s The Walking Dead episodic series, or with Activision’s The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct. Although the game obviously doesn’t have a rating yet, Starbreeze have warned that, because of the canon established by the comics, it’s going to be a game for mature audiences only.
Bo Andersson Klint, CEO of Starbreeze, said, “it will be gameplay focused, ferocious and bring chaos to the traditional industry model – from us developers straight to you. This time it’s big – don’t walk alone.”
In addition to the confirmation of the new game, fans of Payday 2 will be able to enjoy adding to their stash of weapons a Lucille baseball bat, intended to commemorate the collaboration between Overkill, their parent company Starbreeze, and 505 Games.
Disney Speedstorm, Gameloft’s free-to-play kart racer, will enter its latest season with a wintery backdrop of Arendelle. Let It Go will add Anna, Elsa, Olaf, Kristoff, and Hans as racers. As always, they’ll have unique moves and abilities.
Oaken and other musical movie crew members will be unlocked, along with a new Golden Pass. After fan feedback, the developer is rebalancing this aspect of the release so you can progress faster and unlock more rewards.
The developer also announced on Twitter that it’s lowering in-game shop prices starting today, and if you’ve paid for microtransactions, you’ll get a big payout. The French studio appears to be betting on this season’s success.
Adding non-Frozen characters Oswald, Ortensia, and WALL-E could also help. A comprehensive game update should bring back lapsed players and attract new ones. Will you challenge the kart racer?
Bungie has pulled a contentious $15 starter pack from Season of the Wish, which launched yesterday. The pack had a poor selection and was marketed to new players, which the community strongly opposed.
The starter pack proudly stated that players could “experience the power of build-defining Exotic weapons by instantly unlocking three of Destiny 2’s finest: Traveler’s Chosen, Ruinous Effigy, and Sleeper Simulant.” An exotic ship, a sparrow, a ghost shell, 125,000 glimmer, 50 enhancement cores, five enhancement prisms, and one ascendant shard are also included.
This offering may seem harmless to a new player, but Forbes’ Paul Tassi says, “You sort of have to be a Destiny 2 player to understand what an outrageously bad deal this is.” The Forsaken Pack, another Bungie release, includes two dozen Exotics, a dungeon, and a raid. It cost $20 and is now $5. It looks bad, from what we can tell.
Guardians retaliated with negative Steam reviews. They orchestrated the DLC page to include “Capitalism,” “Crime,” and “Psychological Horror” user tags, which is funny.
After Bungie pulled the pack, Redditor Grizz3d summarized the community response: “I don’t get how that starter pack was approved. What part of stealing from new players wasn’t going to result in community outrage? Bungie’s disconnect with players is shocking. I’m glad you got rid of the pack, but it’s disappointing that Bungie thought it was a good idea.”
This follows the Witcher 3 crossover armour sets, which look great but are expensive. Sony’s independent live service outpost is in danger due to a delayed expansion and studio layoffs.
Sony announced last year that it would plant trees for Horizon Forbidden West PlayStation fans who unlocked a simple trophy in the open-world game. This, in partnership with several charities, sought to protect the global environment and biodiversity.
Over a year later, it released a trailer showing its progress. The company has planted 600,000 trees worldwide, restoring 1,800 acres. More importantly, the gaming industry has planted 2.5 million trees worldwide.
Gaming is fun, but we must protect our world. Sony has taken steps to be more environmentally friendly, such as adding energy-saving features to the PS5 and shipping all its products in fully recyclable packaging.
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