Walking Dead Media Shambles To Life

Any idea what’s next for The Walking Dead? Game adaptation! The newest rendition of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead just saw a burst of new media and popularity today, almost all of it featuring bloodthirsty, necrotic corpses.  But don’t worry, that doesn’t mean we put an end to your favorite zombie apocalypse TV show, so continue to watch The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 10: 18 Miles Out online as soon as it airs on February 26, 2012. Mark your calendars ladies and gentlemen, but for now, let’s have a sneak peek of what this new ruckus is all about.

In case you haven’t noticed, The Walking Dead is one big heck of a package. Before, it was just some sort of 2D, dark, gory, monochrome comic book series, the zombie-themed property had the eye of executives at AMC who has felt that the shambling corpses would make an excellent contrast to Jon Hamm. Introducing a video game inspired by the television series. 

As per usual, you can find the full lineup in the gallery below, but I want to draw special attention to the second screenshot (which can also be seen in relatively tiny form at top-right). Wanna know why? Because the more I look at that image, the more I'm impressed by how well Telltale's artists were able to stylize the world's aesthetics, while still making it easily recognizable as a descendant of the comic's Tony Moore/Charlie Adlard artwork.

Of course, there's also a part of me that remembers Telltale's disappointing Jurassic Park videogame. Honestly I enjoyed that title, but to do so I had to consider it a "vaguely interactive long-form cutscene" instead of an actual game. I have no idea what Telltale plans to do with The Walking Dead, gameplay-wise, but if it has any hope of avoiding a critical savaging, the firm is going to have to drastically depart from its efforts on Jurassic Park.

Which, now that I mention it, serves as a nice segue into the other piece of Walking Dead media to emerge this morning: The first episode of "Playing Dead," a Telltale-produced web series that takes viewers behind the scenes of the game's development. Presumably this is an effort to offer as transparent a development cycle as fans could possibly hope for, and that's admirable.

Andrew Lincoln's Wife Impressed by his American Accent

He’s gorgeous! I know right? Lels! But there’s more! Ladies and gentlemen, our hunky sheriff who leads his small horde of humans away from freaking shuffling packs of zombies, Andrew Lincoln has revealed in one interview that he’s wife thinks he’s definitely perfect for staying in character while filming his hit US TV show. See the staunch, gorgeous sheriff more as you watch The Walking Dead Season 2 Episode 9: Triggerfinger online when the very next episode of the show airs on February 19, 2012.

He’s British, for Pete’s sake, yet he still has found major, major success as the police sheriff Rick Grimes in the modern-day zombie television series filmed in America’s Deep South.

The 38-year-old has decamped his wife and two young children to nearby Atlanta and, from the moment he sets foot off the plane to when he flies back to Britain for his breaks, talks in an American accent.

Andrew said his wife thinks he's 'an idiot' for staying in accent for so long.

He recalled: "The first time she came on set she was like, 'Andrew, what are you doing?'

"I said, 'This is it for the next six months, I'm afraid'. And also, I have to do this because most of the crew think I'm American, and if I change now it's going to freak them out!"

The star of UK series This Life and Teachers, Andrew is enjoying his new double life as an American star is one he's enjoying.

"I feel a bit like a spy, because most of the time that I'm not working, I'm back here in England," he said.

"But then I fly over there, I don't have a mobile - I have a cell phone, I have a different dialect which I stay in all the time, and I have a different currency. I have, thankfully, the same wife, but it's an extraordinary schizophrenic lifestyle. I love it."