The Walking Dead: Season 3 launches in 2016

Telltale Games has mentioned to Mashable that the latest iteration of its ‘The Walking Dead’ series will be released later this year.

The story-based playable adventure is planned to debut later in 2016, and will include the opportunity for new players to easily join the story of The Walking Dead.

Telltale Games are faced with a difficult problem in inviting new players to the series for Season 3, as Season 2 had multiple possible endings which differ greatly and would create a confusing scenario for newcomers to the franchise.

However, the studio is promising an unexpected method of accounting for the different endings Season 2 presented, which will cater for both The Walking Dead veterans and newcomers.

“From a role-playing, interactive storytelling point of view, it is not from the bag of tricks that we’ve ever shown anybody before,” said the CEO of Telltale Games in an interview with Mashable.

The Walking Dead has been praised for its skilled storytelling and engaging gameplay, managing to find the balance between a cinematic and gaming experience. Telltale Games have created a genre which mixes both the agency of a video game with the story-line and drama of a novel or film.

The studio has also been working on other releases within their self-founded genre, including a Batman series and new content for Minecraft: Story Mode.