Telltale is back. The forge of interactive cinema was revived less than a year after its closure.
Batman: The Telltale Series
LCG Entertainment should be thanked for this.
The American company acquired the assets of Telltale to reopen it in a new location. The office will be located in Malibu.
Publisher Athlon Games also acted as a partner in the deal. He will distribute new Telltale projects, Polygon writes.
What about the staff?
Telltale will be headed by Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle. The first is the ex—president and co-founder of Abandon Interactive, as well as the head of the indie developer Galaxy Pest Control. The second one was opened by Road Dawg Games.
A number of former employees will be invited to work at Telltale. At first, they will be offered a contract job. Recall that after the news about the bankruptcy of the studio, many of them were helped with employment by large game publishers. So it is unlikely that it will be possible to collect the entire staff in the same form.
The Wolf Among UsWhat about the games?
According to Ottilie and Waddle, Telltale retained some licenses, including The Wolf Among Us and Batman. There is a chance that these games will get new seasons.
The studio closed after the announcement of the second season of “The Wolf” and right during the release of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. The latter was brought to mind by the forces of Skybond, which bought the rights to the game and hired its team.
As for Stranger Things, the project for which Telltale created in its last months, the rights to this IP have returned to Netflix.
As for the rights to Tales from the Borderlands, Game of Thrones, Guardians of the Galaxy and Minecraft: Story Mode, nothing is clear yet. The studio says that we should expect both the continuation of old games and projects under new licenses.
Tales from the Borderlands
Telltale wants to keep the old format of interactive quests.
But also to “modernize” it. Studio managers are not yet spreading more details.
Recall that the studio went bankrupt last fall. She made massive layoffs of 250 employees (without notifying them in advance, as required by US law). During the year, her projects gradually disappeared from gaming stores.
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