“Fans of Family Guy will love that we’ve taken some of the series’ most iconic and memorable moments and built them into an impressive and uncensored video game,” said David Oxford, Executive Vice President, Activision. “Anyone who watches the show will appreciate how much we have adhered to its rich and twisted universe and characters.”

Jeffrey Godsick, President of Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products said, “With Activision at the helm, we’ve found a world class partner for a Family Guy console video game. Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse will utilize the source material, including the talented voice cast and writers, authentic humor and subversive spirit of the series, giving fans a whole new way to interact with their favorite show.”

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“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 website. “While we don’t have an exact date yet, I can tell you that the game is about to enter a closed testing phase in limited areas in the next couple weeks. The global public launch will be sometime later. We’ll know better exactly when a worldwide launch will happen once we’ve gotten some results from this more intensive testing period. When we have information to share we’ll keep the Facebook group and The Walking Dead blog up-to-date.”

The game will be accessible to a facebook audience while staying true to the series. That includes featuring weapons like Shane’s semi-automatic, Rick’s Python, Glenn’s machete, and Andrea’s screwdriver. Weapons like the shotgun can also double as a bludgeon. Of course, the real violence will be dished out by the zombies. “We’re going to have zombie feasts, so when you die you’re going to get eviscerated,” says Studio Director Stephen Griffin. “As a player, if you do well, you’ll get the decapitations and so forth. But I don’t think it is gratuitous. We think it serves a purpose to making it feel more like the show.”

It will launch with more content than other facebook games have after a year and continue to be updated when the game goes live. “It’s free to play,” assures McKean. “But similar to many Facebook games out there, you can buy premium items like energy and weapons using Facebook Credits.”

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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 prison escapee, who becomes the de facto guardian for Clementine, a little girl orphaned by the outbreak. Clementine will serve as a moral barometer much as Rick’s son Carl does in the series. Also featured are existing characters like Glenn, Hershel Greene and his son Shawn Greene (pre-zombie), and Lilly, who is infamous in the comic but has not yet appeared in the TV series.

Fans will also notice the influence of Charlie Adlard, the artist for The Walking Dead comic. “Charlie Adlard’s work isn’t too clean and that’s something that really informed the art style. All of his work is really organic feeling and you’ll see a stray line here or there,” explained Lead Designer Sean Vanaman. “We sat down with Art Director Derek Sakai earlier on and said wouldn’t it be cool if we took the principles of 2D art and said to heck with it, we’re just going to put it right into the 3D art and see what it looks like.”

The game won’t just have the look of the comic. It will also focus on interaction with the living rather than the dead. Every choice you make will not only have an impact on that particular episode but also successive episodes. Decisions will be timed to add to the sense of urgency.

“Telltale has done a phenomenal job in making a game that meets the expectations of fans,” praised The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman. “Running around with a gun isn’t what The Walking Dead is about; it’s about is how people caught in an apocalypse deal with facing their own death every day, and the horrible choices they have to make to survive. Telltale’s game series has captured the spirit of the comic books perfectly.”

While it won’t be a shooter game, which would just attract more walkers, it will have harrowing encounters with lurkers that jump out at you as you explore. Players will have full control as they move through the game’s environments, unlike Telltale Games’ Jurassic Park, which relied heavily on Quick Time Events (QTE).

Each episode will cost 400 MS Points (XBLA) or $4.99 (PSN), and $24.99 for the entire season on PC & Mac. If you pre-order @ http://www.telltalegames.com you’ll receive 10% off ($22.49) and a chance to join the cast of the game. One lucky winner will be rendered as a human who dies a horrible death and returns as a ravenous walker in Episode 4. Up to four others will be selected to become part of the undead horde.

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The game is being developed by RockYou and Eyes Wide Games, which are hoping to social games to the next level. “AMC’s The Walking Dead Social Game is a next generation game for social networks.” said Stephen Griffin, CEO of Eyes Wide Games. “It’s got deep playability. It’s got drama, and it’s still approachable for the casual audience. However, if you’re a gamer and you’ve been looking for a deeper game to play and to experience on social networks then this is it.”

The cartoony designs belie the gameplay. Players can unlock a variety of weapons (axes, crossbows, and guns) to carry out extremely graphic kills. The combat will be turn based so that it’s simple enough for anyone to pick up but challenging enough to allow for multiple survival strategies. “We are targeting the maturing gamers that post college have reached a point in their professional and personal lives where games need to fit into their broader lifestyle,” said Josh Grant, SVP & GM of Studio Partners at RockYou. “The Walking Dead Social Game lets traditional core gamers engage in battle against zombies, with win or lose consequences, but on a more flexible social platform.”

Like The Walking Dead: Social Game on facebook to be notified when the game launches later this month.

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“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 be an ARM-based platform price-competitive with the Apple TV (if you own a Kinect already),” he posted on reddit. “At some point after that, we’ll see a Xbox Next, a true successor to the 360. Details about it are very hazy, except that, like the 360, it will do games for core-audiences & the same media apps as the other device, also with Kinect. Somewhat later, Kinect itself will likely receive a camera update for the video camera first. Around 2015-ish I expect a generational update, to add a better depth camera, processor & inter-connect.”

Personally, I’m skeptical whether causal gamers are willing to pay $100 or more for something that smartphones can already do. Even MS Nerd says his predictions should be taken with a grain of salt.

“As an example, I recently wrote an Xbox-related paragraph at the end of one of my Windows Phone posts. The Windows Phone stuff was 90% true; the Xbox info was at best 50% true. Yet, those 3 or 4 lines got passed around on Twitter so rapidly, I could hardly believe my eyes. The craziest thing happened after that: sites like Kotaku & G4 picked it up and reported it,” he writes. “That being said, I’m not a complete hack-job. I’m not pulling things out of my behind. I have always, ALWAYS, said that I am not giving you straight-up facts. Nothing I have ever said, was claimed to be official. That is the nature of the beast. Take it or leave it.”

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You interact with the world through three icons: an eye for inspecting items, a hand for picking them up, and a box for your inventory. Although it’s tempting to click your way through with the hand icon, inspecting items will reveal humorous tidbits and invaluable clues that will help you progress in the game, as will combining items in your inventory. If a combination fails, there’s no harm done except maybe to your pride. Geoff will say things like “Sometimes the things I do make no sense,” and “This smacks of trial and error.”

Other combinations may be right but seem very wrong such as: fixing a washing machine with a vibrator, a sink with a butt plug, and a fuse box with nipple clamps, which Geoff quickly regrets when it reveals the kinky couple to whom the items belong.

Geoff’s communications skills are equally inappropriate. Rest assured that regardless of which response you choose the result will not be good. This is especially true when talking to Julia but it’s the quest that counts, not the conquest.

Nurse Quest is romantic comedy for nerds filled with humorous movie and video game references that are the only satisfaction you’ll get, but you still won’t be able restrain yourself from trying (even by court order).

Game: http://games.adultswim.com/nurse-quest-adventure-online-game.html
Walkthrough: http://www.robotlizard.com/nurse-quest-walkthrough/

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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 side by side comparison of features.

Free doesn’t mean cheap.

Executive Producer Stephen D’Angelo says there are big updates in store. “The game goes to warp speed in February,” said D’Angelo. “All told, it’s my goal to have something new in the game nearly every week starting with the second anniversary event and running through the end of April.”

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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 toys. In either case, I wouldn’t be surprised if George Lucas makes a guest appearance as either Walden’s best friend or Sheldon’s latest mortal enemy because of the Star Wars “upgrades”.

The Kinect Star Wars Limited Edition includes: the first ever white Kinect Sensor, Kinect Star Wars game, Kinect Adventures game, 320GB Hard Drive, C-3PO-themed Xbox 360 Wireless Controller, and the high note of the bundle a R2-D2-themed Xbox 360 console that makes R2′s trademarked whistles!

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MICROSOFT STORE (free shipping)

Xbox 360 4 GB Console with Kinect – $199.99

Last chance to save $100 on this bundle.

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