Enlarge / If today’s news about Telltale Games’ closure is true, that “final” season description may prove more accurate than Telltale originally intended. (credit: Telltale Games)
A wave of layoffs has apparently hit the video game studio Telltale Games, responsible for popular branching-narrative games based on the Walking Dead franchise. According to online reports, those affected by the layoffs have alleged that the studio is either shutting down entirely or staying afloat as a meager skeleton crew, ahead of The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series‘ final season launch throughout this autumn.
On Friday, independent reporter Andrea Ayres posted an allegation that the studio had shut down, based on feedback from a game-development Facebook community that simply said, “Telltale Games is closing their doors.” Shortly afterward, Telltale narrative designer Emily Grace Buck confirmed that she does “not have a job anymore” and added that she was looking for job opening information for “a lot of other amazing people I love dearly.”
After Gamasutra reported on the story by saying Telltale was “closing its doors,” The Verge followed up to indicate that a team of 25 staffers will remain on board—perhaps to usher the company’s remaining Walking Dead episodes to launch. USGamer separately reports that a new game in Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us series, and a previously announced series based on the Netflix show Stranger Things, have been canceled.
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Source: Ars Technica – Telltale Games begins wave of layoffs, cancels Stranger Things game