Activision has confirmed the release of Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse, which was leaked on Amazon. The game is based on the award-winning episode “Road to the Multiverse” in which Brain and Stewie travel to parallel universes featuring a variety of different animation techniques and styles including: 2D, claymation, Flintstones, Disney, and even live action. “Fans of Family Guy will love that we’ve taken some of the series’ most

The Walking Dead Social Game was originally scheduled for release in April but it’s been pushed back indefinitely while the development team fine tunes it. “I know there’s a lot of interest in the answer to this one. To be frank, we got excited about the project during development and started adding more features, which extended the development timeline,” explains Mac McKean, AMC’s SVP for Digital Media, on the AMC

Admit it, you think you’d be a better leader than Rick or Shane. Well now’s your chance to prove it! Telltale Games has licensed The Walking Dead for 5 episodic games, which will be released monthly starting in late April. The games will be canonical to the comic but begin at the outset of the zombie apocalypse when Rick Grimes is still in a coma. Players control Lee Everett, a

If there’s one thing we’ve learned from The Walking Dead, it’s that you need friends who have your back. AMC’s The Walking Dead: Social Game lets you test out your survival skills as well as your social skills by recruiting your friends on facebook to help defend your camp, which will continuously be under attack by walkers even when you’re not online. More friends means more guards but it also

You may have to wait a little longer for the Xbox 720 (durango). A lite version will be released first, according to “MS Nerd” an anonymous blogger who has a knack for forecasting the future of Microsoft (hence the alias). “My understanding is that we’ll see a Xbox device in late 2013 which does Arcade-style games & all the current & future media apps with Kinect (with near-mode). It will

When Geoff Jefferson tries some DIY repair on his Super Genesis 64, he goes to the hospital for electrocution but leaves with a broken heart. Nurse Julia is so far out of his league that his only hope of seeing any action is mouth-to-mouth resuscitation so tries to get readmitted to the hospital as often as possible. Surprisingly, being a accident prone doesn’t exactly impress her. You interact with the

Lollipop Chainsaw has new Valentine’s Day trailer that profiles Juliet Sterling’s boyfriend Nick Carlyle, a disembodied head. He used to have a super hot bod until Juliet had to perform some emergency surgery for a zombie bite. Nick’s not just a pretty face though, his head can be used as a projectile or even reattached to his zombified body to give you hand

In the futuristic world of Star Trek, money has become obsolete so it’s only fitting that the MMO Star Trek Online will adopt a Free-To-Play model starting January 17th. Of course, there’s still in-game currency called Dilithium. Paying subscribers will automatically accrue Dilithium upon logging in, capped at 1 billion, while free accounts will need to manually refine Dilithium with a 100 million cap. Visit the Features Matrix for a

The long-awaited Star Wars themed-Xbox 360 is not far away. According to Kotaku, it will make an appearance on a “popular network television show” airing in February. They don’t say which show but The Big Bang Theory is the most likely choice given its nerd fan base. The only other possibility is Two and a Half Men, which stars Ashton Kutcher as Walden Schmidt, a millionaire with all the best

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It’s been more than 3 years since Ubisoft announced the apocalyptic survival game I Am Alive with nary a mention since. Much like its protagonist, the video game is still alive at least for Xbox Live Arcade and PS3 Network. The scaled back version and will no longer be released for PC, but Ubisoft tells fans they won’t be disappointed. “We know people have been waiting for this game to

What do you get when you combine the visuals of video game director Goichi Suda (No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle) and the story telling of film director James Gunn (PG Porn): eye candy! “Lollipop Chainsaw is the story of young, beautiful zombie-killer Juliet Starling, her sidekick disembodied-head boyfriend, and the entire Starling family of zombie killers as they team up to stop a colossal zombie outbreak. Leading the zombies

Have you thanked a programmer? It’s Video Game Week on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and to celebrate the opening credits have gone 8-bit with a digitized Jimmy running across the screen à la Ninja Gaiden. Jimmy is showing off his video game skills each night with demos of Modern Warfare 3, Gears of War 3, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Battlefield 3, and The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword. All

In China, chain gangs are going high-tech. Liu Dali alleges that he and 300 other prisoners at Jixi labor camp in Heilongjiang province were forced to play online games in 12-hour shifts. They collected virtual money to trade with other players for real money, an illegal practice known as gold farming. The Prison reportedly made upwards of $900 a day, which was not shared with the prisoners, but when they