Since mass layoffs at Telltale Games, the company has been trying to work out a way to finish The Walking Dead. Not long ago, it was revealed Telltale had potentially been thrown a lifeline when multiple partners stepped forward and expressed interest in helping see The Final Season through to completion.
It's now been confirmed Skybound Games will take over the publishing and development of the final episodes of The Walking Dead. Creator of The Walking Dead and also the founder of Skybound Entertainment Robert Kirkman made it official at New York's Comic-Con:
We’ll be taking over Telltale’s ‘The Walking Dead’ to finish Clem’s story...We can’t lose Clementine and Rick in the same year.
The news was also confirmed over on the Skybound Twitter account, with the company revealing it would be responsible for completing Clem's journey. The aim is to keep the original development team intact as Skybound works with former Telltale leaders to come to an agreement. According to Variety, Skybound has never used in-house developers on its games before.
Multiplatform entertainment company Skybound was founded in 2010 to develop properties across multiple forms of media including film, television and video games. Skybound Games was only established earlier this year to assist development.
[source variety.com]
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While I'm glad that the series will get to reach its proper conclusion, I can't help but wish that Telltale had tried to find a lifeline before laying off more than a hundred employees.
I've not played the Walking Dead games but it's nice that it will make it to the end
...and I can finally start them without worrying about a cliffhanger!
We're not forgetting, Telltale.
Is this good news? Cause the two episodes of the "final season" have been terrible. To be quite honest,almost everything Telltale has released have been dreadful.
Great news! Now just confirm that we will still be getting it all on Switch and I will happily throw my money at them. I still want to play it all on Switch.
While it's cool that it's going to be finished, the 250 Telltale employees still need to find a way to land on their feet. What happened to them, being uprooted out of nowhere, is simply appalling. I don't understand how it's ethical to hire people as late as a week earlier before doing the massive layoffs. That just reeks of bull**** and I honestly do not blame people who think that upper management are a bunch of con artists.
@Heavyarms55 Well, wasn't it going to be on switch? The season was available to be purchased so, I guess it'll be available again. That's probably why there's no need to confirm platforms again.
But well, you never know...
@Dahn_ They announced we were gonna get all the seasons on the Switch, of the Walking Dead. That's what I want confirmation that it is still happening. We got the first season already. I want seasons 2 and 3 before I buy the final season. If we don't get the spinoff, Michonne, I will play that on PC, since it's not directly related to Clem's story.
Wait. Can't lose Rick? ...shoot, I didn't want to know that Rick's going away from the show. ;~; (Please don't tell me how he goes though, if he dies or just goes away or if it's just the last season altogether, I want to keep that a surprise still at least.)
Anyway, I'm glad they're finishing it after all. I'm certainly gonna get the full collection once they're all out.
@Yosher You’re not the only one hit by a spoiler there. I just caught up enough to learn how one character ended up on the other series. I run quite a few episodes behind
@Yosher Yeah. I guess he didn't really think the comment through and was more just part of an emotional (happy) reaction. Quite the spoiler for the ones who are not very far.
@Dahn_ This isn't even a spoiler that people who aren't very far yet won't know about. I'm all caught up on the TV show and this is a straight-up spoiler for EVERYONE.
We’re losing Rick?? Oh man i missed that one!!
@Yosher I actually read that in a magazine last week, at my dentist. Rocked me too. But I guess its common knowledge in the entertainment circle that he was leaving the show. The article read like it was something I should have known, and was announced awhile ago.
@PhilKenSebben Yeah, honestly I did pick up something about it a while ago myself, but I thought it was just a dumb rumor or something, because, come on, it's Rick Grimes. But I guess it's true. Oh well.
Not a spoiler considering that it was announced months ago that Andrew Lincoln is leaving the show, and AMC is literally promoting the upcoming season as "Rick Grimes' Final Episodes".
I don't care, even though I did pay for it. I care more about the staff who have had their world turned upside down. Telltale how about working this hard to give staff their severance pay that they are entitled to.
Unless the profits are used in some way to compensate the staff that were laid off, then not touching this. Big Batman fan and got the first season of that, but won't pick up the second. What's happened at TellTale and the way it treated it's former employees was inexcusable.
And what about the hundreds of people who lost their jobs? What about their severance?
This is great news but it sucks so many people lost their jobs though.
Well if they can get a Switch release it would be a good for those employees but we well have to wait and see this through now.
I’m here at NYCC and I tell you, the reaction to this news was epic
Unless they are going to port while series over to switch, I won’t end up getting any more then the first two seasons I got back on PS3. It be nice to have all seasons available. I guess I could always get it for my iPad...
I read enough of the comments to know I cannot read them anymore. I`m one of those who never played The Walking Dead series before, but I was just waiting for a sale.
This is to everyone whos spoiling it for other people.
You make me sick. Not liking a game does not give you the right to spoil for everyone else.
I`m glad to know there`ll be an end, so I`ll just skip next news about it `till I buy the game and finish it.
The damage is done!
@BladedKnight I`m gonna be completely honest with you. I read someone read a spoiler and I stopped reading. Maybe there wasn`t any spoiler in this thread, so my comment wasn`t for anyone here, I`m guessing. I really didn`t wanna be sure lol.
I do apologize if anyone felt offended by my comment.
It's great that they're finishing the story but spoiler alert: the final two episodes will be made in Flash featuring stick figures and .wav files found on the Internet.
I don't even watch the show and I knew about it 6 months ago... show is making darryl the main character
telltale pay your workers you damn pigs
Wait a minute, Risk? I’d love some Risk on the go...what will happen to that title?
I guess it's good news for those who like these kinds of games. In my opinion, they're boring and lack any kind of real control over the characters (basically a point and click adventure with multiple choice dialogue) Yay. And once you finish the story, there's no real reply value. No wonder these games lost their appeal.
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