Walking Dead social game coming in April

The Walking Dead is becoming a social Facebook game, letting you posse up with your friends to defend against Walkers starting in April.

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AMC's hit TV series The Walking Dead is being turned into a Facebook title, because a show that reflects man's inhumanity to man is the perfect subject for social games. The title is coming from social game company RockYou in April.

The game's Facebook page (via G4) invites Likes to be among the first invited to play the game. You'll form a posse of friends to protect yourselves, set up guard duty shifts, and battle in turn-based combat against the Walkers. Plus, you'll be meeting characters from the series and visiting familiar locales.

If your friends get killed, though, they might become Walkers themselves -- which actually sounds like an excellent reason to posse up with people that you hate. The obnoxious high school guy that somehow got on your Facebook? Send him off on a dangerous mission alone and then shoot his undead face with impunity.

This shouldn't be confused with the episodic Telltale game also based on the TV series, which is set to launch sometime this spring.

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    March 9, 2012 3:30 PM

    Steve Watts posted a new article, Walking Dead social game coming in April.

    The Walking Dead is becoming a social Facebook game, letting you posse up with your friends to defend against Walkers starting in April.

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      March 9, 2012 3:43 PM

      lol @ that screenshot. The Project Zomboid guys must be considering self-immolation right now.

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      March 9, 2012 4:09 PM

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        March 9, 2012 4:10 PM

        The show had a really rocky start, but season 2 took the show from bleh to awesome for me.

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        March 9, 2012 4:48 PM

        It seems a bit weird to have a zombie game with bright cartoon colors. Its a facebook game so it doesn't surprise me. You would think that they would attempt to emulate the style from the comic book source material.

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      March 9, 2012 4:35 PM

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        March 10, 2012 9:41 AM

        Yeah! It seems like it would be such an obvious choice for a good game. Why hasn't it been done before?

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