Thought Telltale recently got revived or summat..?
this post was submitted on 05 Oct 2023
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They went bankrupt ages ago, got recently picked up by another company and revived, and now it seems like they're going under again. Nobody really knows what's happening behind the scenes but as the tweet says, seems like they're all under NDA.
After the revival they just re-released the Batman games, announced a sequel to The Wolf Among Us and then nothing for 4 years? It is sad to see Telltale gone, but at the same time I am not surprised.
In a way they were already gone, that's just another nail.
They did release a game for The Expanse recently, but it didn't seem to do too well.
It was an Epic exclusive... so they must have gotten paid something already. Did they just take the signing pay and then cut their losses...?
They never got revived. A third party bought their titles and company title when they went bankrupt.
The new company renamed a division of itself to Telltale and offered the old devs jobs as temporary contract workers.
None of the previous workers took the job. They did end up hiring Adhoc Studios (real former TellTale members) to work on TWAU2 after development stalled.
It should be no surprise that the company is laying off people. They did nothing with the IPs for 4 years besides sit on royalties.
The owner of the IP for TWAU made it public domain so in theory someone else could make the game.
Not really. Telltale still holds the game license.
Well at least they could make a game that expands on the story, since the story is based on the IP, even if they couldn't use things specifically from the previous game or call it a sequel.
That was seriously such a badass move from him