After a one week release delay, the retail version of The Walking Dead video game from Telltale Games is now available across North America. The retail copy includes all five episodes for $29.99, with separate versions for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

The PC version will be available exclusively at Best Buy, while Gamestop is offering limited collector’s edition for $69.99:

"Make every choice like it's your last... The world we knew is gone. The dead have risen to feed on the living. The living cannot be trusted. Starving. Never safe. Looking for hope. What would you do? The Walking Dead is a critically acclaimed adventure horror game set in Robert Kirkman's award-winning universe. Beginning when Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes is still in a coma, this is a new story telling the tale of Lee Everett - a man given a second chance at life in a world of the undead. Taking an orphaned girl under his wing, Lee must deal with true horror under the constant threat of walkers hungry for flesh... as well as other survivors, desperate enough to do anything to stay alive.

  • A tailored game experience - live with the profound and lasting consequences of your choices
  • Experience events, meet people and visit locations that foreshadow the story of Deputy Sheriff Rick Grimes
  • The world of the comic books brought to life with visuals inspired by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard
  • Included: The Walking Dead Compendium 1

Featuring cover art exclusive to the Collector's Edition, this is the first 48 issues of the fan-favorite, New York Times Best Seller series collected into one massive paperback collection! Over one thousand pages chronicle the beginning of Robert Kirkman's Eisner Award-winning continuing story of survival horror- from Rick Grimes waking up alone in hospital, to him and his family seeking solace on Hershel's farm, and the controversial introduction of Woodbury despot: The Governor."