Development troubles may have dogged the title after Telltale Games shut down, but The Walking Dead: The Final Season is still going strong thanks to Skybound Games. Episode 3 – Broken Toys is set to release next week, and will see Clementine fighting to get her people back. There’s also an interesting cameo that longtime fans of the series will recognize. Check it out below.

The trailer teases some interesting mechanics for Episode 3 – Broken Toys. To rescue her friends, Clem will have to blend in with a horde of zombies and provide a distraction. How players will handle their journey through this season could affect the final outcome, so make those choices wisely.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season – Episode 3 will release on January 15th for Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and PC. The remaining episodes will be available exclusively on Epic Games Store for PC players. Those who purchased the Season Pass on Steam will still receive the remaining episodes, however.

At the Kinda Funny Games Showcase, Skybound Games announced that the third episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season will release on January 15th, 2019. Titled “Broken Toys”, it will launch for PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and PC. Check out the teaser trailer below, which aptly proclaims “It’s not over yet”.

It’s quite fitting, considering the events surrounding Telltale Games. After the developer announced a majority studio closure and began liquidating its assets, the task of developing the rest of The Final Season was passed off to Skybound Games. About 40 of Telltale’s developers, dubbed Still Not Bitten, are helping with the development.

Episode 3: Broken Toys will continue with the trials of Clementine and AJ as they discover a home to hopefully settle down. Things are never that easy though, and it’s not too long before sacrifice, decisions, and relationships play a key role in the conclusion. Will Clementine suffer the same fate as Lee Everett from the first season- or worse? We’ll find out in the coming months.

After it was announced that Telltale Games would be shutting down, it was initially reported that The Walking Dead: The Final Season would be “cancelled”, and that its final two episodes would not be releasing. Fortunately enough, Skybound Games announced not too long ago that they’d acquired the publishing and development rights of the series, and that they’d be releasing the final two episodes of Clementine’s story after all.

Recently, Skybound Games’ CEO, Ian Howe, and creative director of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, Kent Mudle held an AMA on Reddit, during which Howe stated that since development on the final two episodes had not yet resumed, announcing any exact release dates is going to be impossible, before later adding that regardless, he “fully expects” Episode 3 of the season by the end of 2018.

“I can’t give you a definitive answer at the moment,” he said at first. “What I can say is that the team is not currently working on the game and until we’re back into production, it’s going to be nearly impossible to give an accurate answer. What I can say is that we will announce new dates as soon as we know what they are, there is no reason for us to hold that information back, so it will be public immediately that we can talk about it with confidence.”

“Given that you guys have been so supportive and patient, I’m going out on a limb and will say yes, I fully expect Episode 3 to be this year,” he added later, “and I’ll be very disappointed if we can’t make that happen.”

Howe also stated that development on Episode 3 is already pretty far along, and that the majority of the work was to be done on Episode 4. Back before Telltale’s shuttering, Episode 3 was scheduled for a release on November 6.

The first episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, “Done Running“, is currently available for Xbox One, PS4, and PC, with a Nintendo Switch release due later this year. If you’ve already gotten your hands on it and can’t wait for the next big twist, then don’t worry. Telltale has announced release dates for the next three episodes, and they’re all out this year.

Following a monthly release schedule, Episode 2: Suffer the Children will be released on September 25th. Episode 3: Broken Toys arrives on November 6th, and the final episode, Episode 4: Take Us Back, is out on December 18th.

Though the developer noted that the release dates are subject to change, it’s usually been accustomed to announcing release dates for episodes out of the blue. A proper schedule is a first, but with the studio taking more time on individual game releases (and changing its engine finally), this is probably a good thing. We’ll have to play the other episodes and find out for ourselves.

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