One of the most clichéd ways to start an article is the old, the dictionary defines XYZ as blah, blah, blah, but there's a method to my madness here. So...the the Oxford dictionary defines the word rumor as "a currently circulating story or report of uncertain or doubtful truth."
I'm calling this story a rumor because I have not personally seen this game with my own two eyes yet, but I am very sure that this is happening.
In my 2025 forecast for Stern Pinball, I gazed into my crystal ball and said that a Vault or remake game is happening in the fall. At the time, I hypothesized that game might be Ghostbusters or Tron. Then I started hearing rumblings that the game wasn't a Vault per se, but a Remaster of a game, most likely one done by designer John Borg.
I started speculating about what that could be and have now verified, as much as anyone can at this point, that the new Stern Remaster will be based upon Borg's 2014 pinball machine The Walking Dead.
I have a fairly high degree of certainty with this one. Beyond the title, I have no additional information on a Walking Dead Remaster at this time other than it is tentatively slated in the schedule for October. Clearly, Stern will redo the game's fairly universally panned art package. I think that kept sales of the original lower than they should have been for a fun game with great Lyman Sheats code.
This is just personal speculation here from someone who read a bunch of The Walking Dead comics after watching the television show. I wonder if Stern would do a Comic Edition TWD? Again, I have no specific knowledge of this I'm just speculating, but the comics - which are now sold in huge Compendiums, are great (link: https://www.amazon.com/Walking-Dead-Compendium-One/dp/1607060760 "
Beyond this Remaster, I still expect Stern to release Keith Elwin's King Kong with a price increase in May and a John Borg-designed Star Wars game later in the year.
Disclaimer: Are all of these rumors 100%? Of course not. Also, remember plans change and games are cancelled and/or moved around. Having said that, at this point I feel very good about this refined forecast for the year.
