The Walking Dead is getting a Pokémon Go-style AR game

The next Walking Dead game is bringing walkers into the real world. Called The Walking Dead: Our World, the upcoming mobile release will be a location-based augmented reality experience, similar to Pokémon Go — only a lot more gruesome. AMC says that the game “will enable players to fully immerse themselves into the action of the hit TV show by blending digital objects, such as characters and other game elements, with the players’ own environment.”

Much like Pokémon Go’s debut trailer, the first video of Our World looks to be largely aspirational, and doesn’t feature any direct gameplay. Instead, it shows players fighting off the undead in places like a convenience store and a hospital, fending them off using everything from guns and...

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