The Walking Dead video game which is developed by Telltale Games has been given a official release date of April 30th, 2012. The game will be roaming to Xbox Live Arcade, Playstation Network, Steam, Mac & iOS so make sure to download the game then. The game will be released with one episode and one by one will be released every couple of weeks from then. Telltale games have said that the decisions which you make in the first episode will have a big impact on what you do later in the game. Make sure to pick the game up then and there is a special something for people who pre-order the game on steam. Read below;

PC Competition

There is a pretty sweet competition for all PC owners out there who pre-order the game and for this reason, it’s worth pre-ordering. Every single person who pre-orders the game on PC or Mac will automatically be entered into a competition to be put into the game. That’s right! Five people will be turned into zombies in the game and one lucky winner will become a human character who is killed off and killed again as a walker.

The Walking Dead Video Game

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This is my attempt to show how the season one finale, Wildfire, could have been done smarter, keeping the basic ending. The quotes from the show are taken from closed captioning on the DVD. It begins about 30 minutes into Wildfire (the fifth episode of season one). The group has just stopped to consider what to do about Jim. Shane and T-Dog have gone on ahead to look for parts for the RV.

T-Dog jumped out of the Jeep almost before it came to a stop, looking around for something that may have the parts needed to repair the RV.

Shane: Yo T-Dog, lets stick together. No reason to hurry here, lets check it out slow.

T-Dog: Why? You see somethin’? (brings shotgun up to a more ready position)

Shane: Naw, I just know Rick. He’ll be talking to the others about Jim for a while. We got time.

T-Dog: Yea I got that feeling from him too…… What do you think about that old green van? Think it might have the right size hose?

Shane: Don’t have the slightest idea, Pop the hood and we’ll look.

T-Dog tries the driver side door. It’s locked. As he pulls back the shotgun to bust the window Shane interrupts.

Shane: Lets try the other doors first. Gotta be quiet like.

They try the other doors, looking in the windows as the go around the van, All the while keeping a eye out for walkers.

T-Dog: All locked and that sheet is blocking us from seeing the back.

Shane (as he unscrews the antenna from the van): If a walker was in there it would’ve been trying to get us by now.

T-Dog: What’s that for? (points to the antenna)

Shane: Watch. (whips the window and it shatters with noticeably little noise, But as Shane turns to say something to T-Dog, the barrel of a Glock points at him from inside the van)

T-Dog: Hold it right there (As he levels the shotgun at the dark figure in the van)

The figure is obviously still blinking the sleep from his eyes.

Figure: you guys are alive.

T-Dog: obviously since we’re talkin’.

Figure: You cops?

Shane: I am. How’d you know?

Figure: Your cap. My names Casey (Lowers pistol, but doesn’t put it away)

Shane: This is T-Dog, I’m Shane.

Casey opens the drivers door and steps out, blinking in the light (Pistol is still out): What’s with busting the window?

T-Dog: We’re looking for a radiator hose.

Casey: Not from this heap, Someone stripped the engine for parts before I found it. The only reason the hood is closed was so I could look out if I heard something.

Shane: Mind if WE check.

Casey: Knock yourself out. It’s not mine.

T-Dog: You alone?

Casey: Yea. I was visiting my parents in Florida when they shut down travel. After…. Well I’m working my way back home in Pennsylvania.

T-Dog: PENNSYLANIA!! You’re crazy if you think you can make it that far.

Casey: Didn’t have anything better to do.

Shane: We’re heading to the CDC. (See’s Casey has noticied the RV way down the road)

Casey: The CDC. You realize that’s in Atlanta? One of the largest cities in the south?

Shane: It was either that or Fort Benning.

Casey: Benning’s dead. They were overrun.

Shane: How do you know?

Casey: I saw it.

Dale said the radiator hose was more duct tape than hose and he was out of duct tape. We’ll say Casey had some, to get them back on the road. And since they are heading north Casey took the ride in trade for the duct tape. Now we move ahead to outside the CDC. Casey grabbed an M-4 and 2 mags off one of the dead soldiers.

Casey: (grumbles intelligibly….) It’s dry.

Rick: Well, they probably emptied the clips while being overrun.

Casey: No, it’s dry, no lube. (Casey slings the carbine and pulls out his Glock) and it’s a magazine not a clip.

Inside the CDC elevator.

Daryl: Doctors always go around packing heat like that?

Jenner: There were plenty left lying around. I familiarized myself.

Casey: Where? Mine is….. in need of work.

Rick: We’re safe now, we don’t need

Casey: (interupting) Call it my OCD, I want, No NEED to get this up and running.

Jenner: Ahh, the armory.

Casey: Thanks, By the way doc, you should take the lens caps off that optic if you think there may be trouble.

Jenner: Oh, Right. Umm thanks. You military?

Casey: Once upon a time.

Dinner after Shane askes when Jenner is going to explain where everyone is.

Glen: Dude, you are such a buzzkill, man.

Casey: It’s gonna get worse. Everyone stop drinking. I saw the clock, I know a countdown when I see it. It was at 18 hours 50 minutes, we have less now. What happens at zero?

Jenner: The basement generators run out of fuel.

Rick: And then?

Jenner goes to leave, but is blocked by Casey and then Daryl.

Daryl: Come on Doc, What happens?

Jenner hesitates, takes a deep breath: Facility-wide decontamination.

Shane: What does that mean?!

Jenner: Do you know what this place is? We protected people from very NASTY stuff! Weaponized smallpox, Ebola strains that could wipe out half the country! Stuff you don’t want getting out!! EVER!!! (Collects himself) In the event of a catastophic power failure, in the event of a terrorist attack, for example, HIT’s are deployed to prevent any organisms from getting out.

Casey: Son of a bitch

Rick: HIT’s?

Casey: High impulse thermobaric weapons… Fuel air munitions. Basically the biggest gas main explosion ever in a very concentrated area. It will cook the air.

Jenner: (surprised) It will actually set the air on fire.

Rick: How do we stop them?

Casey: We don’t. For the job he said, they’ll be tamperproof, at least beyond our capabilities. Any attempts will probably cause them to detonate.

Shane: We need to get out of here NOW!!

Casey: No. Not yet, we have 18 hours. Let’s think about this.

Shane: WHAT?

Daryl: I ain’t listening to a crazy man.

Jenner: Actually, if you’re going, you have to leave before the 30 minute mark. The system will shut down all non-essential systems to save power. That means I won’t be able to open the outer door. {I changed this to make more sense than Jenner only being able to open the outer doors once.}

Casey: Ok, we leave at the 15 hour mark. It’ll be daylight then.

T-Dog: Why not get the hell out now?

Casey: Because we have work to do. Doc, can we refuel the generators?

Jenner: I used all the fuel.

Casey: what about outside? The generators are diesel, right? (Jenner nods) can we get fuel from the 2 tanks outside?

Jenner: The soldiers did that just before we were overrun. Everthing out there is dry.

Casey: OK, Rick, Dale go check the Generators. Look for a way to refuel them from outside if we think of something. Shane, T-Dog, and I will go to the armory. Glen, Daryl scavenge all the rooms and storage closets for bags or backpacks and meet us there. Lori, Carl, Andrea hit the kitchen. Find all the dehydrated, freeze dryied and powdered kind of food you can. Put it in boxes and take in to the hallway by the main elevator. Carol, Sophia and Jacqui hit the laundry get clean clothes and pillow cases, we can use the pillow cases as bags. Put them in boxes with the food. Then I want your groups (points to Lori and Carol) to get all the drugs and medical supplies you can, Doc will help with that.

Jenner: What am I going to do before that? (Jenner has a little smile, he is happy NOT to be in charge)

Casey: You’re going to download all the data you have on this thing into some kind of portable storage.

Jenner: That’s done automatically. (Walks to one of the rearmost work stations) Two copies ready to go.

Casey: Carl you get one and so does Sophia.

Lori: (angrily) Why them?

Casey: They’ve got to carry something, so why not. They’re hard drives not bombs. Doc, you’re with me.

In the armory.

Casey: OK. I see 6 M-4′s with aimpoint optics and an SR-25 with an ACOG.

T-Dog: And a god damm MACHINE GUN!

Shane: Leave it. Waste of ammo. Here’s a couple of spare bolt carriers for the M-4′s

Casey: Two piles. ‘Must go’ and ‘Would be nice’ The machine gun isn’t in either, it’s more of a if we can. the M-4′s are ‘Must go’ as well as every 5.56 round. Why are there Glocks here, I expected Barrettas?

Jenner: I don’t know. I don’t know what the differance is.

Shane: Those threaded barrels mean what I think!

Casey: Look for them!

T-Dog: Anyone want to clue me in?

Shane: Suppressors!

Casey: (To T-Dogs questioning look) Silencers!

Shane: Here, in the black cases! 4 of them!

Casey: There are 2 more over here for M-4′s!

T-Dog: Why would they have silencers?

Jenner: Makes sense, The ‘walkers’, as you call them, home in on sound. Reduce the sound, less walkers come after you.

Shane: Looks like 4,000 rounds for the M-4′s and 2,000 for the pistols.

Casey: Only 400 for the SR-25. We may have to ditch everything but Weapons, ammo, food and medicine…. What’s in those boxes?

Jenner: Night vision googles.

Casey: I might kiss you.

Jenner: I hope you will restrain yourself.

Casey: With the suppressors and the NVG’s we may be able to do two or three trips trips while it’s dark!

After 3 trips the vehicles are full, if low on fuel. Jenner, Jacqui, and Andrea annouce the intention to stay. Dale convinces Andrea to leave. The episode Wildfire continues.

The Map of the Dead is a really cool map that would help you survive and get you going in the right direction if face with a real The Walking Dead scenario. The Google based map will show you where to find such places as grocery stores, gun stores, police stations and more. If you are concerned and needed help in trying find out where to go, or where to avoid, in a zombie apocalypse then this map is a must have.

The zombie survival map can be printed out so you can store it in a good place. You would figure that during a world ending zombie apocalypse that the Internet or cell phones would be inoperable, so being able to print out the map is a must. The map also shows you danger zones based on population levels which is also pretty cool.

Map of the Dead

The Map of the Dead was created by doejo, and you can check it out here. Remember, it is useless unless you get yourself a hard copy.

The Walking Dead season 3 will soon be getting underway and it looks like somebody will be around a lot more, which is Maggie. Maggie, played by Lauren Cohan, has been given the green light for a solid role in the next season of The Walking Dead. While first making her appearance in season 2, she has become a near regular by being in most of the second season.

The show lost two of its major characters in season 2, which happened to be Shane and Dale. While Shane and Dale have been staples of the show since nearly the beginning, they are now gone and it looks like there is space for another character to step up. Maggie, who is Hershel’s daughter, was known in the second season as the woman who ends up with a crush on Glenn.

Glenn is one of the fan favorites of show and now his girlfriend will be around much more. Many fans were on the fence whether the hook up between Glenn and Maggie was good or not. Some people thought that it made Glenn weak, while others seen the relationship as something that was cute. Whatever it may be or how you stand, you will now see them progress further in season 3.

Season 3 of The Walking Dead will start filming soon in Coweta County in late May. Now that Lauren Cohan has landed a more permanent role, we should expect to see her in nearly every episode. I use the term “permanent role” loosely, because as you know, nobody is safe.

TV Line who recently spoke to Robert Kirkman, mentioned that season 3 will be longer than the first and second season. The show will  be 16 episodes and divided equally around the holiday break.

“Getting eight-and-eight will almost be like doing two seasons a year, which is cool.” – Robert Kirkman

The season 2 finale left fans in awe as the show finally gave the audience a glimpse of Michonne, and we can definitely expect that the third season will be huge.

Season 3 of The Walking Dead will be filming again in Coweta County, and people are reassured they are safe from zombies. Starting in May, AMC will continue the series with a lot of the filming happening right in Senoia, Georgia. Senoia has been featured a lot in the hit series and it looks like they will continue to stay right there.

According to Times-Herald, Mike Riley and Seth Zimmerman recently attended a city council meeting to inform them that AMC will film there throughout 2012, and possibly into 2013. Mike Riley who happens to the location manager , said the following.

“Senoia’s going to become a major set for us”

The cast and crew is set to begin arriving soon, with filming starting around May 31st. The first episode of season 3 will begin with 8 days of filming. Some of it will happen during the day, while some at night, with most of the filming happening during the weekdays. The crew will once again be challenged with controlling the traffic, as well as the  fans who will be dying to catch a view of the action.

The Walking Dead has its main studio at Raleigh-Riverwood, and the Senoia community is not new to filming in the area. “Fried Green Tomatoes” and “Pet Sematary 2″ have both seen action in Senoia, along with some other television shows.

The Walking Dead is one of AMC’s biggest hits and is breaking records for the network. We can expect the amount of fans to grow and the intensity to increase. Season 3 is expected to be huge, especially after the season 2 finale, where we witnessed the introduction of fan favorite Michonne. The group is now off the farm and appears to be heading to the prison. Hold on tight, because season 3 of The Walking Dead should knock fans off their feet.

The Walking Dead has come to an end for now, but there are still plenty of things for fans to rant and rave about. According to Dread Central, McFarlane Toys announced which figures would be included in their second set, which are set to go on sale in October of 2012. The announcement was made during a recent toy fair held in New York City.

The figures will come with accessories and can be customized in a variety ways. The second set will have the following figures once released later this year.

The Walking Dead Figures

Rick Grimes 2 – The small-town sheriff-turned-hero and leader of the survivors during the zombie apocalypse, Rick continues to struggle with his moral convictions in Season Two. Rick will be featured as a brand-new sculpt in his civilian attire, prevalent in Season Two.

Shane Walsh – Rick’s partner and loyal friend became the antagonist of Season Two. Shane will be featured in tactical attire with his newly buzzed haircut.

Bicycle Girl Zombie – The maimed zombie girl shown crawling next to her bicycle in a park turned out to be one of the most iconic zombies from Season One. She is also the first zombie Deputy Rick Grimes encountered in the series opener.

Well Zombie – A rotten, bloated zombie surprise resting at the bottom of Hershel’s water well that the survivors eventually attempt to hoist out by using Glen as bait. This is by far one of the sickest looking zombies seen yet on the series, and this figure is one dead-on, stomach-churning replica.

RV Zombie – During the opening scene of Season Two, one of the most intense scenes happens as a mob of flesh-eating zombies swarm the group. Unaware of the flesh-eating zombie onslaught, Andrea becomes trapped in the recreational vehicle when one climbs aboard. Under attack from this “RV” Zombie, Andrea fights back, stabbing the zombie in the eyeball with a screwdriver.

So while we have a long time to wait till season 3 of The Walking Dead, we can keep ourselves entertained by keeping an eye out for collectibles like these. Get out there, and try to grab the first set, as the next set of figures will be here before you know it.

Daniel Day, a member of our community and who is one of our Photo Reporters, lives right nearby where most of the second season was filmed. He as been an excellent contributor to the forum and has taken some remarkable shots of the filming locations. His most recent photos were of scenes that took place in the season finale. Besides the ones below, there are pictures from where the group was standing on the road deciding where to go, along with more photos from where they were camping for the night.

Season Finale Filming Location Pictures

In terms of the structure they used for the filming, I am not sure what it was before, or what the purpose of it is. You can almost see where they made the fire that was actually filmed in “Besides The Dying Fire” in Daniel’s other photos, which happens to be pretty cool. While the second season of The Walking Dead may be over, we find contributions like these to really be something to look forward to until season 3 airs in October 2012. There are lots of cool and awesome pictures to check out, and you should! The rest of his photos can be found here on this stickied photo thread.