Before The Walking Dead, before The Wolf Among Us, there was Sam & Max. Based on a comic by Steve Purcell and one of LucasArts’ point-and-click classics (Sam & Max Hit the Road), Telltale’s episodic games about an anthropomorphic dog detective and an “hyperkinetic rabbity thing” helped to lay the …
As much talk as there is about 2016 being terrible, it was a fantastic year for games. There was an abundance of fantastic releases, and plenty of good surprises – against all odds, Watch Dogs 2 turned out to be good, and Final Fantasy XV actually came out and was better than anyone could …
With its square-jawed focus on the inner workings of Bruce Wayne, Batman: The Telltale Series has, until now, been missing a lot of the sort of relationship drama that’s the highlight of the best Telltale games. I must admit, the previous episode, Children of Arkham, worked so well as a …
For me, the premiere of Batman: A Telltale Series last month was a shaky start. It showed potential, especially in its nifty detective sequences and its exploration of Batman’s violence, but the plotline, obsessed with taking every turn to remind players that Bruce Wayne’s parents are dead and he is …
Telltale Games have a long and impressive track record when it comes to using violence and gore to foster an emotional response. The Walking Dead did this repeatedly—putting down Lee’s brother, for example, or having to manually control Clementine as she stitches up a wound without anaesthetic. Choosing (or being …
The other day, Telltale Games announced that Batman: A Telltale Series would include a new multiplayer feature called Crowd Play, allowing groups of people to cooperatively make the decisions that drive the game. This could be huge, mainly because it’s reinforcing something that I think has long been true for Telltale’s adventures—they may …
Telltale Games have released the first trailer for their upcoming Batman: A Telltale Series, bringing with it further hope that this game might just be the second coming of Batman: The Animated Series that so many Batman fans have been waiting for. The Animated Series set itself apart through brilliant writing—it was dark and heavy, …
Last week, on Force Friday, Disney unveiled the BB-8 Droid by Sphero- a miniature, fully-functional, radio-controlled robot based on a droid of the same name from the upcoming film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s described as being “as authentic as it is advanced”, capable of acting independently as well as …
There’s a particular word that gets thrown around a lot in discussion about video games, especially when it comes to perceived value: “replayability”. On the surface, its meaning is straightforward – the extent to which a game is able to be played numerous times. And it’s this meaning that people …
