The Wolf Among Us Trailer

That was fast. Only yesterday, Telltale was teasing us with a short teaser video on Vine, and today, the full trailer for The Wolf Among Us is here.  The first episode, Faith, will be premiering soon on PC, Mac, Xbox Live Arcade, and PlayStation Network.

In other Telltale news, those of you who play the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft and were fans of The Walking Dead might want to check out skin pack five.  It includes skins of Lee, Kenny, Molly, Omid, Christa, and male and female walkers.

The Wolf Among Us Screenshots Available to All

Game Informer's exclusive first look at The Wolf Among Us is now online, so those who don't subscribe to the print or digital magazine can see for themselves how close to the comic book Telltale has gotten with the game's art style.  These screens (and all of the rest of the shots from the Game Informer article) are all in-game screenshots.

The first episode of The Wolf Among Us is scheduled to be released some time this summer.

In related Telltale Games news, Poker Night 2 was released a few weeks ago for PC and Mac through Steam, for the PlayStation 3 through PlayStation Network, and for Xbox 360 through Xbox Live Arcade.

First Screenshots of The Wolf Among Us

In the May issue of Game Informer (available now in their digital issue), the first screenshots of The Wolf Among Us have been revealed. The art design enhances the playable comic book feel of Telltale's The Walking Dead tenfold.

The issue also reveals more of the "Fables" that we'll be encountering in the game. There's the ones we already know: Bigby Wolf (the big bad wolf), who's the sheriff of Fabletown, and the person we'll be controlling, Mr. Toad (who is a carjacking thief, and who is able to keep himself and his family in human form to keep from getting sent to the farm), one of the three little pigs (named Colin, the one who built his house out of straw, is a professional mooch who lives on the farm with his cousins, but sneaks into the city since he's bored with farm life). There's also Ichabod Crane (deputy mayor of Fabletown for nearly 115 years), Snow White (the assistant to the deputy mayor of Fabletown) Beauty and the Beast (she's dependent on him (but is still said to have genuine care and concern for him), and he works two and a half jobs in order to keep up their lavish lifestyle now that they don't have servants), and Buffin (a talking, winged monkey from the land of Oz who is Fabletown's librarian, and prone to mischief).

There's some more information on how Telltale has evolved the gameplay from The Walking Dead as well. The action has improved. It will still be motivated by the game's narrative, and it will still be presented in a cinematic style, but players will have more control over the action (which in this game involve bigby throwing punches). And since Bigby is a Fable, the action will be more over the top than The Walking Dead since Bigby can take more punches than Lee ever could (and the amount of damage you take is shown in your appearance, and is noticed by the other characters in the game). There will still be quick time events (involving Bigby making a decision in the middle of a fight to decide the game's outcome). However, it seems the QTE's this time will be just the decision making ones and not the button pressing ones.

The relationship building in The Walking Dead will also be expanded in The Wolf Among Us, as it's said to contain a lot more of that, and there will be a powerful emotional connection to the characters like Telltale did with The Walking Dead.

As Telltale has said before, you'll be able to choose what decisions to make like The Walking Dead. The Wolf Among Us will also have the opportunity to choose when to go to different locations, making the events unfold in different ways. Two events will happen at the same time, and the other event will still unfold regardless of whether you've experienced it first-hand or not, giving the game an extra element of realism (and replay value).

Telltale's Fables Is Now Called The Wolf Among Us

The Wolf Among Us, Telltale's game based on Bill Willingham's Fables comics has been revealed. It is a prequel to the comics, and will be in canon with them. It follows Fables' Big Bad Wolf, Bigby Wolf, who is sheriff of a secret hidden community in New York City that protects characters who have been exiled from fairy tales. Bigby Wolf must protect those fairy tale characters, including a chain smoking member of the Three Little Pigs and a car stealing Mr. Toad. It will be released for Windows, Mac, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 this summer.

Also, The Key Party is a teaser website for Telltale's upcoming Poker Night 2, which like the original will feature characters crossing over from different franchises in order to play a game of poker together. The keys revealed have been DeSoto keys for Sam from Sam & Max, the big knife for Brock Samson from Venture Bros., the Necronomicon for Ash from Evil Dead, Claptrap's eye from Borderlands 2, and a companion cube for GLaDOS from Portal (the latter two being in the game instead of Handsome Jack and Chell as previously assumed).

The Walking Dead Season Two, Fables Release Dates

Telltale's The Walking Dead Season Two and Fables have received release dates in an Eurogamer interview with Telltale CEO Dan Connors.

The first episode of Fables will be releasing in "the next couple of months".  While, the first episode of The Walking Dead Season Two will be releasing this Autumn (Autumn in the US, the third quarter of 2013).

Those who can't wait for more of Telltale's The Walking Dead won't have to wait until the end of this year though, since writer Gary Whitta has revealed in an interview on IGN's Up At Noon that there will be more The Walking Dead playable content from Telltale before Season Two is released.

In additional Telltale Games news, the iOS version of Back to the Future: The Game was updated last week to a universal app with support for iPhone and iPod Touch in addition to the iPad.

Also, there's a rumor that Poker Night 2 is coming soon, since Team Fortress 2 items have shown up in the latest update with a PN2 prefix, and a Poker Night 2 entry has appeared in The Steam Database and as a related Steam group. The items that appeared in the update are Sam's hat from Sam & Max, Handsome Jack's mask from Borderlands 2, Ash's crown from Evil Dead, Chell's boots from Portal, and Brock Samson's knife from Venture Bros.