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Telltale Games, which shut down last year, is being revived after its assets were purchased by a company called LCG Entertainment. The new company will sell some of Telltale’s back catalog and will work on new games based on a few Telltale-associated properties, as well as new licenses....
Telltale Games hasreportedly laid off the rest of its remaining employees. The company confirmed last month it was planning to shut down afterlaying off hundreds of employees. It said it was keeping a skeleton crew of 25 to "fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners." That...
Telltale Games appears to be shutting down.According to GameDaily, the troubled Northern California game studio behind the acclaimed Walking Dead series is shuttering, and has enlisted the help of an outside company, Sherwood Partners, to assist in the closure of the company. Co-founder Martin P...
Dead and Game of Thrones among other titles. The developer is going out of business entirely after laying off its staff and working through the shutdown process with creditors. Word is now surfacing that some Telltale games are being removed from Steam and are no longer available to purchase....
When Telltale Games shut down in 2018, many games in development were canceled, with a few finding new homes. One of these games isThe Walking Dead, which was acquired by Skybound Entertainment after the original studio shuttered. Skybound was founded by theThe Walking Deadcomic’s creator Rob...
“Minecraft: Story Mode” is the last completed project from Telltale. The studioshut downearlier this year, laying off the majority of its staff. It was reportedly in investment talks with AMC and Smilegate at the time, but those deals fell through. ...
It wasn’t too much of a surprise to hear that developer Telltale was coming back with an episodic game based on SyFy and Amazon’s popular sci-fi seriesThe Expanse. Before it was shut down and revived, Telltale made a name for itself on such licensed games. What was much more intrigu...
Samit Sarkar(he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. A former Telltale employee is suing the company in a class-action lawsuit, alleging that it violated labor laws on the books in Califo...
Then, Season Two and A New Frontier sadly failed to outrun their predecessor's shadow before the conversation around The Final Season became more about game developer rights rather than the series ending thanks to the much publicized shutdown of Telltale Games. However, whether or not The ...