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Kirkman Chats About Overkill’s ‘The Walking Dead’

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9 years ago

March 16, 2015

Back in August we were given our first look at a new The Walking Dead — this time from Overkill Software and Skybound Interactive — which promised to be the opposite of Activision’s embarrassing Survival Instinct game.

Overkill’s take of the increasingly popular zombie franchise has more potential than Survival Instinct ever did, but it’d sure be nice to know something about it, aside from its nebulous 2016 release window. Enter series creator Robert Kirkman.

“I can say that it will be Payday-esque because [Starbreeze and Overkill] are currently doing Payday,” Kirkman told Polygon. “But I’m told it will be in a bigger world than Payday currently encompasses. They are going to be learning a lot of stuff from Payday that they will be incorporating into The Walking Dead game.”

This Walking Dead won’t be the same kind of generic experience we usually get from licensed games. Overkill and Skybound are looking to create a unique and engrossing storyline within the Walking Dead universe that follows brand new characters.

“So instead of like it being a derivative experience, where you kind of enjoyed a movie so you’re playing a game and it’s not as good as the movie and there is some lame things about it, we’re doing a thing that is its own experience that stands on its own as a cool game, rather than a licensing barnacle to this popular movie,” Kirkman added.

Kirkman also confirmed that, like the Payday series, this game will be “online and interactive.”

Here’s the game’s announcement trailer, if you missed it the first time around. It’s beak as hell, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from something that’s a part of The Walking Dead.

Adam Dodd

Gamer, writer, terrible dancer, longtime toast enthusiast. Legend has it Adam was born with a controller in one hand and the Kraken's left eye in the other. Legends are often wrong.

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Horror Novelist Ray Garton Has Passed Away at 61

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14 hours ago

April 22, 2024

John Squires

We have learned the sad news this week that prolific horror author Ray Garton, who wrote nearly 70 books over the course of his career, has passed away after a battle with lung cancer.

Ray Garton was 61 years old.

Stephen King tweets, “I’m hearing that Ray Garton, horror novelist and friend, died yesterday. This is sad news, and a loss to those who enjoyed his amusing, often surreal, posts on Twitter.”

Ray Garton’s novels include Seductions, Darklings, Live Girls, Night Life, and Crucifax in the 1980s, followed in later decades by output including A Dark Place: The Story of a True Haunting, Trade Secrets, The New Neighbor, Lot Lizards, Dark Channel, Shackled, The Girl in the Basement, The Loveliest Dead, Ravenous, Bestial, and most recently, Trailer Park Noir.

Garton also wrote young adult novels under the name Joseph Locke, including the novelizations for A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Master and The Dream Child. He also wrote the novelizations for Tobe Hooper’s Invaders from Mars and Warlock, as well as several books for the Sabrina the Teenage Witch and Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchises.

Other young adult horror novels you may remember the name Joseph Locke from include Petrified, Kiss of Death, Game Over, 1-900-Killer, Vengeance, and Kill the Teacher’s Pet.

You can browse Ray Garton’s full bibliography over on his official website.

He wrote on his website when it launched, “Since I was eight years old, all I’ve wanted to be was a writer, and since 1984, I have been fortunate enough to spend my life writing full time. I’ve written over 60 books—novels and novellas in the horror and suspense genres, collections of short stories, movie novelizations, and TV tie-ins—with more in the works.”

“My readers have made it possible for me to indulge my love of writing and I get a tremendous amount of joy out of communicating with them,” Garton added at the time.

Ray Garton is survived by his longtime wife, Dawn.