E3 2013
Telltale Games working on a Game of Thrones game
Telltale Games, the creators of distinctive and well-received games like The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, is reportedly working on a game based on George R. R. Martin’s fantasy series A Song of Ice and Fire, aka Game of Thrones. Which parts of the Westerosi universe and what timeframe the game might follow are unclear, but the prospect isn’t coming completely out of the blue. Telltale’s most successful work has been with licensed properties like Fables and The Walking Dead, and Telltale’s founder has been vocal in the past about the studio’s pursuit of new licenses. “Yeah, we consider ourselves, like, scripted drama of games, and that stuff comes up around us as well,” Telltale Founder President Kevin Bruner. IGN was the first to report the rumor, though a Telltale vice president de...
Murdered: Soul Suspect Screens Revealed
In an E3 that is full of sequels and the same-old, Murdered: Soul Suspect, may stand out as something that’s actually new. The concept of the title is based on Die Hard, but with a twist where creative director Yosuke Shiokawa wonders what if protagonist John McClane died in the events of the film yet continues to fight as a ghost. The hardest case to solve is one’s own murder. Murdered: Soul Suspect takes players into a whole new realm of mystery where the case is personal and the clues just out of reach. When Ronan O’Connor, a detective with a checkered past, gets caught up in a violent burglary, his life is brought to an untimely end by a brutal and relentless killer. Shocked to find himself in the afterlife, his only escape from the limbo world of ‘Dusk’ is to uncover the truth b...