Telltale Games’ ‘The Walking Dead’ (deservingly) took home a BAFTA for Best Story on Tuesday, but fans of the series may have come away with something a little better. Season two of the episodic series is coming “fall next year,” Telltale CEO and co-founder Dan Connors says.
Connors spoke with Eurogamer after the annual award ceremony about the future of ‘The Walking Dead’, which rapidly propelled Telltale Games from cute, narratively experimental studio to worldwide powerhouse in innovative storytelling. Happily, the series isn’t going away anytime soon. Now we just need to know when to expect the next major update.
But season two isn’t the only thing fans of the series have to look forward to, Gary Whitta, the driving force behind ‘The Walking Dead’s’ phenomenal story, told IGN in February.
“You won’t have to wait for season two to play more 'Walking Dead,'” he said in an interview on IGN’s program “Up at Noon.” Whitta doesn’t necessarily have the final word on the franchise, he’s just a writer after all, and he clarified in the same interview that “We may have a little something extra for you between season one and two” He also characterized season 2 as “a way off.”
Whether he’s vaguely referencing more season one content or something else entirely is unknown, though Connors and the Telltale Games team don’t seem to mind his off-the-cuff reveals.
“We threw him into the zombie pit,” Connors jokingly tells Eurogamer.
Hopefully he was joking about TellTale having an actual zombie pit as well, but rest assured, GameNGuide is hot on this tip as well.
Update: Telltale tells Gameinformer Connors misspoke. ""The current estimated release window for Season Two of The Walking Dead is for fall of ‘this’ year (2013), and not ‘next’ year (2014) as has been reported after a recent interview. We apologize for any confusion and thank you and all of our fans for your continued excitement for Telltale’s series."
