'Breaking Bad' returns with a new crime-filled mobile game

Let's sell meth!
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Walter White lives on. Sort of.

More than five years after Breaking Bad ended, fans of the show will be able to dive back into the meth-filled underbelly of New Mexico with the upcoming mobile game Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements, The Hollywood Reporter revealed Thursday.

We don't know a ton of details about the game yet, but we do know that it will be free to play and players will be strategically building up a criminal operation, undoubtedly intent on selling the infamous blue methamphetamine.

Here's a short teaser of Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements:

The game will feature science-teacher-turned-meth-producer Walter White (Bryan Cranston) and fellow criminal Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), and players will be able to interact with other iconic characters including Saul Goodman, Gus Fring, and Mike Ehrmentraut, THR reported.

Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements is being developed by Plamee and published by FTX Games, which previously released Narcos: Cartel Wars for mobile based on Netflix's Columbian cocaine cartel series Narcos.

According to FTX Games' site, the company is also producing games based on Criminal Minds and The Walking Dead.

If you're worried about the handling of the Breaking Bad IP, showrunner Vince Gilligan seems to quell those fears in a statement provided to THR, saying, "[FTX Games] care as much about the details as our creative team, and I have been very impressed with their commitment to building an authentic extension of the series’ story universe. I think this will be a fun experience for fans, to interact with characters from Breaking Bad in a completely new way."

Breaking Bad: Criminal Elements will be arriving on the iOS App Store and Google Play Store in 2019.

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Kellen Beck

Kellen is a science reporter at Mashable, covering space, environmentalism, sustainability, and future tech. Previously, Kellen has covered entertainment, gaming, esports, and consumer tech at Mashable. Follow him on Twitter @Kellenbeck

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