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Poker Night 2 launches on iOS: available now!

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:00 -0700

For those who might be holding out for the promised iOS version of Poker Night 2, we've got great news: its arrival is imminent! We'll see Poker Night 2 in the App Store on Thursday, May 23rd (update: it's available now!).

This universal app means the pokering antics of Brock, Claptrap, Ash, Sam, and GLaDOS now come in handy commuter-friendly iPhone & iPad form, so you can enjoy strange looks from fellow bus passengers as you smirk your way through a few hands of witty banter.

Look out for it in the App Store, where you can buy in for just $4.99!

First screenshots for The Wolf Among Us

Wed, 08 May 2013 12:00:00 -0700

Greetings, mundies! Today we're excited to share the very first screenshots from The Wolf Among Us, the upcoming Telltale Games series based on Bill Willingham's FABLES comic books.

Get acquainted with Bigby, Colin, Bufkin and Fabletown below... and watch for further info coming out of E3 in June!

If you simply can't wait that long, be sure to check out our interview with Game Informer for some more teases.

"Even if you're a hardcore Fables fan who thinks you know what's coming, prepare for Telltale to surprise you. "We do a lot of clever storytelling moves that will leave Fables fans wondering what the hell is going on," Lead Designer Ryan Kaufman says. "Knowing how it all turns out [is] a weird advantage sometimes, [but it will leave you thinking], 'how do we get there?'"

Poker Night 2 available now!

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0700

The wait is over (or for some of us, almost over)! Poker Night 2 launched on XBLA today, with other platforms to follow shortly.

Xbox Live Arcade Worldwide: AVAILABLE NOW
Steam Worldwide: AVAILABLE NOW
PlayStation Network (US/SCEA): AVAILABLE NOW
PlayStation Network (EU/SCEE): AVAILABLE NOW
iOS App Store: release date and details coming soon

Be sure to check out the launch trailer below for some brand new sneak peeks!

Bill Willingham talks The Wolf Among Us

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0700

We asked Bill Willingham, the creator of Fables, if he'd like to share a message with Telltale followers across the interwebs. Happily he said yes, and now we have a whole blog post without having to write it ourselves! Here's what he had to say about The Wolf Among Us…

Let's start with a confession. I'm not the world's greatest expert on videogames. I like them, or at least some of them, but I'm not good at them.

But I'm pretty good at story (sorry for the indelicate bragging), and I tend to be fairly protective where my own stories are concerned. Okay, maybe I'm not quite the mother bear level of protective. I've never ripped the limbs from a camper to protect my cubs, but I’m willing to learn.

So then anyway, when Telltale Games made its deal with DC Comics to turn Fables into a game I had one overriding concern. Would they get the story right?

Fables has been shopped around for a movie or TV show almost right from the launch of the series. On two different occasions the possible, maybe, could be deal (which is as far as most projects go out there) resulted in scripts for a Fables TV pilot (and in each case the script was never filmed as a pilot).

In both cases, when I was eventually allowed to read them, the scripts told me the same thing: whoever wrote these stories never read Fables, or didn't like what they'd read, or simply thought they'd do something different to put their own personal "stamp" on the story. Even the one that was a pretty good fairy tale story, in the most generic sense, was a lousy Fables story. Except for using some of the same names for characters they bore little resemblance to the Fables comic book series.

No surprise then that I was most worried about their fidelity to the Fables story, when I heard a deal had been reached to adapt Fables into a Telltale game.

The surprise ending to this tale? The men and women at Telltale got the story right. They know the true story of Fables frontwards and back, so well in fact that I went out of my way to reach a separate deal with Telltale, not only to do what I can to help direct the story of their game, but to make the story in the game canon in the greater Fables fictional universe. That may seem a pretty bold step to take, but their in-game story merits it. It's brilliant to the point of there being far too many moments of, "I wish I’d thought of that."

One more confession, and then I'll let you get back to the rest of this page. Part of my deal with Telltale is to catch their Fables continuity mistakes and make sure they remain true to the original story and characters. But they've made so few mistakes I fear I'm stealing their money. They know the material so well, and remain so true to it, I don't have enough to do.

Maybe I could make snacks for everyone in the break room?

Bill Willingham

Somewhere in Minnesota

What do we have in the Poker Night 2 pot?

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0700

Winning is good, but what good is being Pockets McMoneybags in Poker Night 2 if you can't show off your imaginary wealth? Worry not! In-game unlock rewards mean you can deck the entire Inventory in the theme of your choosing - Portal, Borderlands, The Venture Bros., Army of Darkness or Sam & Max - so you can rub your winnings in those losers' faces!

Of course, in-game unlocks are fine and dandy, but you can also show off your elite pokering skills in other games and other places. Depending on the platform you're playing on, you can win and unlock cool stuff for Borderlands 2 (consoles/Steam), Team Fortress 2 (Steam only), Avatar Items for Xbox 360, or some sweet (and completely exclusive) PlayStation 3 themes.

The Unlocks Showcase trailer here explains it all, and features a few more sneak peeks at what we'll see at the Inventory in Poker Night 2!

Poker Night 2 ups the ante in April

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:00:00 -0700

This is no bluff - Poker Night 2 is coming in April! Some of the biggest personalities in gaming, film, and animation are going all-in on XBLA, PSN, PC and Mac.

Taking the fifth seat at the table, players will be joined by an all-star cast:

Claptrap from Gearbox Software's critically-acclaimed and multi-million selling Borderlands video game series
Brock Samson from Adult Swim's animated series The Venture Bros.
Sam from the Sam & Max video game and comic book series by Steve Purcell
Ash Williams from the cult classic movie Army of Darkness. Groovy!

Players at the table will be assured of a fair hand dealt under the unblinking gaze of a Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System from Aperture Science research facilities, otherwise known as GLaDOS (from the Portal video game series by Valve)!

Poker Night 2 will also offer the chance to win 'Bounty Unlocks': rewards for use within other games when special goals are achieved. With cunning and skill, you can unlock prizes including exclusive skins and heads for use within Borderlands 2 (Xbox 360, PS3 and PC), character accessories for Team Fortress 2 (PC only), unique Xbox 360 Avatar Items, and Premium Themes for dressing up PlayStation 3.

So... who's in? Check out the official site here!

The Wolf Among Us is unleashed this summer

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 12:00:00 -0700

We've been keeping this one under wraps for a while, and today we're excited to announce that Telltale unleashes The Wolf Among Us this summer! Based on Bill Willingham's award-winning comic book series FABLES, the season will debut on XBLA, PSN, PC and Mac.

A consistent New York Times bestseller and winner of over a dozen Eisner awards, the FABLES universe has become one of the richest mythologies in comics. Storybook characters like Snow White, The Big Bad Wolf and Pinocchio are real, and living incognito among us in the mundane ("mundy") world. Of course, their heritage means they are not quite like us...

Set prior to the events in the first issue in the comic book series, The Wolf Among Us puts players in the role of Bigby Wolf, a man once more infamously known as The Big Bad Wolf. Now the sheriff of Fabletown, a hidden enclave of exiled Fables living in New York City, Bigby is tasked by bureaucrat Snow White to keep order within the society of mythical creatures and characters trying to remain undetected in the world of the mundane. From a chain-smoking member of 'The Three Little Pigs' to a car-thieving Mr. Toad itching for his next wild ride, The Wolf Among Us examines the lives of beings straight from the pages of myth and lore, now trying to survive on the meanest and grittiest streets of New York City.

Our very own Dan Connors, Telltale's CEO and Co-Founder, said this week: "Developing The Wolf Among Us based on the FABLES universe has allowed our studio to build upon all of the hallmarks of what makes our episodic series so engaging for players. Through an evolution of our approach to choice and consequence, we can further explore the complexity of each and every iconic character in a universe rich with untold history from the darkest sides of the storybooks."

The Telltale team can't WAIT to unveil more about this upcoming game series as we inch closer to its expected summer launch. For more news and updates, stay tuned right here to the Telltale blog, follow @telltalegames on twitter, and don't forget to check out our new page on Facebook for The Wolf Among Us for updates and images as they become available.