14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer Telltale Games might be busy putting together new franchises that use its episodic format, but it is also planning to launch the third season of its biggest hit so far, The Walking Dead, before the end of 2016.
The better news is that the studio wants to tweak some of its long-standing mechanics to offer more variety based on the choices that gamers have made in the first and second seasons.
Kevin Bruner, the Chief Executive Officer at Telltale Games, is quoted by Mashable as saying that, "From a role-playing, interactive storytelling point of view, it is not from the bag of tricks that we’ve ever shown anybody before. The way that we’re dealing with and validating and retaining all those different playthroughs is really cool and unexpected and, I think, pretty innovative from the storytelling point of view."
At the moment, fans of The Walking Dead can get access to the Michonne mini-series, but it's unclear how much of it will be linked to the story coming in season three.
Telltale Games is also announcing that it is planning to launch the fifth episode of the Minecraft: Story Mode title on March 29 in North America and two days later in Europe, under the name Order Up.
The company is also planning to introduce three new spin-off adventures that will apparently star Jesse and his friends, all coming before the end of the year.
Batman is the next character for Telltale Games to tackle
The company has been unwilling to offer more information about the future of The Wolf Along Us and its episodic series based on Borderlands.
The big release for the summer is a new video game based on Batman, which will not be linked to any other incarnation of the superhero and will not have any story connection with the coming Dawn of Justice movie.
Telltale Games says that it is planning to introduce some new features for this new release, which might be then also used for The Walking Dead - Season 3, and there are plans to focus more on Bruce Wayne than on his alter-ego.
According to the studio, they want to give gamers situations that can be solved at either of the two characters and will explore the way having a secret identity affects the protagonist and his relations with those around him.
The villain of the coming Batman episodic series has not yet been revealed.