According to a recent Facebook post by former developer Jesse Sosa, Terminal Reality has been shuttered. The developer has been around for 10 years and recently released The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct for current-gen platforms.

“For those that have known me for a long time know that I was at TRI for 10 years. TRI seems to have finally shut down. A lot of different emotions are passing through me at the moment. I left there when I saw things going downhill but I have always kept up with them and hoped for the best.

“Now that they’re gone, I’m just kind of feeling nostalgic it seems. I hope they all land on their feet. Most of those guys are still like family to me. I know a good amount are on their way to Austin, so at least I’ll be seeing them soon.”

Though Survival Instinct was panned, Terminal Reality is known for the iconic BloodRayne series. We wish the studio members all the best to finding new positions in the gaming industry soon.

Heck, even the original voice actors for Daryl and Merle, namely Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker are on board to help provide authenticity to the game.

Initial reviews haven’t been very kind though – the shooting mechanics have been criticized and the overall necessity of having a game where you really don’t learn anything new or interesting about the the protagonists isn’t very enticing.

The show and the game are both inspired by Robert Kirkman’s phenomeonal comic book series, which has been running with Image Comics since 2003.

The Launch Trailer.

As a prequel to the events of the first season, Survival Instinct arms you with a crossbow for silent killing. Of course, there’s plenty of equipment for going loud as well, such as handguns and shotguns. You can also use a knife for close encounters to completely lobotomize foes.

The game features way more action than Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, and that’s just fine. It’s not a bad thing to see each game trying something different. Published by Activision, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct releases on March 19th for Xbox 360, PC, Wii U and PlayStation 3.

At least an air of authenticity is present, as a new behind the scenes video features actors Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker, who play Daryl and Merle Dixon respectively talk about their roles in the game.

Daryl, one of the more appealing characters, will be traveling with his brother Merle across the Georgia countryside, in a prequel story that occurs before they meet up with Rick and the group. You can take a look at Reedus and Rooker reprising their roles, along with new footage of the game itself.

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is set to release for Xbox 360, PS3, PC and Wii U on March 19th in North America and March 22nd in Europe.

Because zombies and end of the world. Do we need to do the math?

Today, Activision announced that those who pre-order the game on PS3 and Xbox 360 from GAME UK or GameStop in the Republic of Ireland will receive the Walker Herd Survival, which essentially adds a new Horde-like mode for fending off waves of the undead.

The twist is that ammo is scarce so you’ll be relying more on melee weapons like machetes, kukri, hachets and more to take down the undead. These same weapons carry over into the main game (but when you start from scratch).

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct is currently scheduled for release this March on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, Wii U and PC

About the game:

The Walking Dead brings the authentic, heart-stopping horrors of The Walking Dead to life in a way that’s unlike anything the series has ever seen. Terminal Reality’s upcoming video game is an all-new, first-person, do-whatever-you-need-to-survive game based on AMC’s Emmy award-winning series. In the game, players assume the role of the mysterious, crossbow-wielding survivor Daryl Dixon, alongside his overbearing brother Merle, on a haunting, unforgiving quest to make their way to the supposed safety of Atlanta.

The game is being developed by Terminal Reality and published by Activision. The game is due this year for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U and PC.

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct will be coming out on the Wii U along with the HD twins the PC when it releases in March this year, Activision has confirmed.

“We didn’t want to change the game, because the game had already been established, so we tried to say, ‘What can we augment with the Wii U version?’” Game producer Glenn Gamble said while speaking with Digital Spy.

“That’s where it’s basically a more elegant inventory management system. With the Wii U you have access to your backpack at all times, so you can tap what weapons you want, you can drop stuff. It’s a lot more streamlined.”

Well, ZombiU was a good enough zombie outing for the Wii U owners, will The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct be the same? Recent footage suggest otherwise, but developers Terminal Reality also assured people that it was early footage and the game looks much better now.

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct releases on March 29th for the Xbox 360, PS3, PC and now the Wii U as well.

[VG247]

A fan made trailer for the upcoming The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct was recently released, put together using the little gameplay footage that had been released till then, and it was met with negative reception all over, with people saying that the visuals looked terrible.

However, developer Terminal Reality wants to assure everyone that the footage in that video was from a version of the game when it was still in the early stages of development and that it looks much better now.

“Essentially it was old footage, it was yes, from The Walking Dead and it was from another interview I had done, but the game’s in development,” Producer Glenn Gamble told Digital Spy.

“It’s going to continue to get better,” Gamble said. “You saw the graphics [at a press event in London], I know that was a big deal, you saw them, they looked a hundred times better than what they did.

“A game is constantly in development, time is the ultimate enemy of any game. If we had huge budgets and four years to run, games would look a lot better and visually more stunning. Sometimes you have to show what you got to get people interested and get the ball rolling.”

The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct releases in March. Stay tuned for more updates.

Update: I would like to apologise to Activision and Terminal Reality for blasting a trailer for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct that has now been confirmed to be a fake. Earlier I posted a trailer–which plenty of news channels also did–that showed a horrific game that clearly came from 2001.

It was a bit shady too as you don’t expect Activision to release something like that, but since the video came from the YouTube channel that was titled after the game’s name, majority of press were fooled.

This was compounded by the fact Dan Amrish social media manager for Activision posted the same trailer on his blog. So it’s clear that everyone just got this wrong. So apologies.

We will keep you updated once we get some new information from Activision. Normally I would have just updated the older post, but I felt this deserved a new one.

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Activision has announced that Norman Reedus and Michael Rooker will be reprising their roles as Daryl and Merle Dixon from The Walking Dead TV series in the 2013 first person shooter, The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, which is currently in development at Terminal Reality.

Both are highly popular character, especially Daryl, who’s regarded as the best character on the show by a ton of people. The game will follow the journey of the Dixon brothers as they fight their way through the countryside to get to the supposed safety of Atlanta. Those of you who’ve seen the TV show know just how safe Atlanta really is, but, well, the game might serve as an interesting prelude to the TV series.

We play as Daryl, and we have the option to either fight the walkers (zombies) or sneak past them.

The fact that both Rooker and Reedus are reprising their roles for these two awesome characters has me, at least, excited. What do you guys think? Tell us in the comments section below.