The Walking Dead (video game)

The Walking Dead
Developer(s)	Telltale Games
Publisher(s)	Telltale Games Sony Computer Entertainment (Vita)
Director(s)	Sean Vanaman Jake Rodkin Dennis Lenart Eric Parsons Nick Herman Sean Ainsworth
Designer(s)	Sean Vanaman Jake Rodkin Mark Darin Harrison G. Pink Andrew Langley Sean Ainsworth
Writer(s)	Sean Vanaman Mark Darin Gary Whitta
Composer(s)	Jared Emerson-Johnson
Series	The Walking Dead
Engine	Telltale Tool
Platform(s)	Android iOS Kindle Fire HDX Mac OS X Microsoft Windows PlayStation 3 PlayStation 4 Ouya PlayStation Vita Xbox 360 Xbox One
Release	Episode 1 PC, OS X WW: April 24, 2012 PS3 NA: April 24, 2012 EU: April 25, 2012 X360 WW: April 27, 2012 iOS WW: July 26, 2012 Kindle Fire HDX WW: December 19, 2013 Episode 2 X360 WW: June 27, 2012 PC, OS X WW: June 29, 2012[1] PS3 NA: June 29, 2012 EU: July 6, 2012 iOS WW: August 29, 2012 Kindle Fire HDX WW: December 19, 2013 Episode 3 PS3 WW: August 28, 2012 PC, OS X, X360 WW: August 29, 2012 iOS WW: October 28, 2012 Kindle Fire HDX WW: December 19, 2013 Episode 4 PS3 WW: October 9, 2012 PC, OS X, X360 WW: October 10, 2012 iOS WW: November 8, 2012 Kindle Fire HDX WW: December 19, 2013 Episode 5 PS3 WW: November 20, 2012 PC, OS X, X360 WW: November 21, 2012 iOS WW: November 20, 2012 Kindle Fire HDX WW: December 19, 2013 Retail version OS X, PC, PS3 & X360 NA: December 11, 2012 AU: May 9, 2013 EU: May 10, 2013 PlayStation Vita WW: August 22, 2013 Ouya, PS4, XOne WW: TBA 2014
Genre(s)	Graphic adventure
Mode(s)	Single player

The Walking Dead (also known as The Walking Dead: The Game and The Walking Dead: Season One) is an episodic graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games. It is published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the Vita. It is based on The Walking Dead comic book series by Robert Kirkman. An additional downloadable episode titled 400 Days was released on July 2, 2013 to extend the first season as well as bridge the gap towards the second season. The second season's first episode was released in December 2013.

The first season for the game consists of five episodes and they were released in two-month intervals. The episodes were released between April and November 2012. The game is available for the Android, iOS, Kindle Fire HDX, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita and Xbox 360. There are versions for the Ouya, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One that are planned for 2014.

The game has won many year-end accolades, which includes Game of the Year awards from many different gaming publications. The Game of the Year Award was awarded to The Walking Dead by publishers like USA Today,^[2] Wired,^[3] Complex,^[4] GamesRadar+GamesRadar^[5] and Official Xbox Magazine. The game also won the "Game of the Year", "Best Adapted Video Game", and "Best Downloadable Game" at the 2012 Spike Video Game Awards. Melissa Hutchison won "Best Performance By a Human Female" for her role as Clementine and Dave Fennoy was nominated for "Best Performance by a Human Male". Telltale Games was named as "Studio of the Year" also.^[6]

References

1. "The Walking Dead: Episode 2 Available Today". CraveOnline. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
2. "'Walking Dead' heads USA Today's best 2012 video games". USA Today. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
3. "Indie Passion Fuels the 10 Best Games of 2012". Wired. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
4. "The 25 Best Video Games Of 2012: #1 The Walking Dead". Complex. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
5. "Game of the Year 2012". GamesRadar. Retrieved 2014-07-22.
6. "'The Walking Dead' dominates Spike's Video Game Awards". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 2014-09-09. Retrieved 2014-07-22.

Other websites

• Official website Archived 2014-09-20 at the Wayback Machine
• The Walking Dead at MobyGames