In the midst of Telltale Games suffering a majority studio closure (and reportedly laying off the rest of its skeleton staff), the company has been busy looking for developers to finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Cue Skybound Games which announced that it’s acquired the rights to the title in a recent tweet.

Skybound Games is a division of Skybound Entertainment, founded by Robert Kirkman, the creator of The Walking Dead comics. It’s sort of fitting if you think about it. Kirkman revealed during a New York Comic-Con panel that, “We’ve successfully negotiated with Telltale Games for our company Skybound to come in and see Season 4 of the Telltale game to completion.”

Skybound also told IGN that it will work with former Telltale Games staff “to finish the story in a way the fans deserve.” For the time being, this is some good news for the recently laid off employees.

Telltale’s closure came as a major shock to the industry, especially when it had numerous releases like Stranger Things, The Walking Dead: The Final Season and The Wolf Among Us: Season 2 in development. Though The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s second episode was released recently, the game itself was removed from sale pending the future of the franchise. Expect to see it re-appearing on Steam, GOG and so in the near future.





Posted: Oct 09, 2018 6:02 pm
Last Updated: Oct 09, 2018 6:25 pm
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