Job Cuts
Telltale layoffs in progress at resurrected company
Redundancies are being made at The Walking Dead creator, but numbers are still unclear
Company Profile
Telltale Games
Website www.telltalegames.com
About Telltale is a leading independent digital publisher of cinematic adventures playable on every major gaming platform.
Accolades
Articles featuring Telltale Games
Tech Investment
Telltale power up their storytelling skills with Flavourworks acquisition
The UK company's unique video technology will become part of Telltale's future projects
Tell Us A Tale
Telltale Games pushes back release of The Wolf Among Us 2
The company hopes that the delay will help avoid crunch time
Telling Tales
Telltale continues its rise from the dead with $8 million funding round
The studio was resurrected in 2019, but hasn’t released a new game since
Bigby's Back
Telltale revives The Wolf Among Us sequel as its first project since closure
New trailer shown at The Game Awards
Telling New Tales
It looks like Telltale Games is coming back from the dead
“There is still a huge fanbase of Telltale players and that’s one of the main reasons we decided to make this investment"
Fin
Minecraft: Story Mode goes dark on June 25th
Story Mode joins the Telltale catalogue in being pulled from store shelves
Resurrected
Development on Telltale’s The Walking Dead starts up again
Former developers to return to complete the project
China
Narrative games specialist Telltale begins liquidation proceedings
Some of its earlier games have been removed from Steam
Putting The U In Union
Ex-Telltale dev: "Developers deserve a lot better than what this industry is giving us right now"
Former Telltale Games narrative designer Grace Buck gave the illuminating talk at the Sweden Games Conference
Ask Me Anything
Skybound Games CEO talks finishing The Walking Dead: The Final Season, bringing back Telltale staff and crunch
"I can say that I would never expect or ask anyone to work what would be considered inhumane hours"
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Skybound keeps details on The Walking Dead: The Final Season's future vague
“We are doing our best to take care of the people. Our intent is to work with the original team but there are a lot of moving parts"
Living On?
Skybound to finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season following Telltale closure
Original team members may join development team
Undead
The Walking Dead co-creator Robert Kirkman wants to make sure Telltale Games' Clementine story is told
But right now there are no plans to bring her into the ongoing comic book series
Laid Off
Report: Remaining Telltale Games staff get the boot
One of the staff affected took to Twitter to confirm the news
Tale Continued?
Telltale wants another company to hire ex-staff and finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season
The third episode is reportedly nearly finished
Mobile Mavens
Is Telltale's closure part of a wider industry trend or a cautionary tale?
The mobile mavens offer their opinions
Legal
Former employee hits Telltale Games with a class action lawsuit
Redundancies made “without cause” may have broken state and federal labour laws
More Tales To Tell
AMC and Smilegate backed out of Telltale financing talks day before closure
Source says management painted AMC deal as done
Telltale Signs
Failure to finalise new funding round the catalyst for mass Telltale Games layoffs
Sources claim Lionsgate stopped funding Telltale to refocus on its own business
Cliffhanger
Telltale moves to quell fan fears over The Walking Dead amid pressure to offer ex-employees severance
The developer offered the update on Twitter
Tales To Tell
Netflix evaluates options for Stranger Things game while Minecraft: Story Mode moves forward amid Telltale closure
The streaming service confirmed the news in a written statement
Cancelled
Telltale’s The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us unlikely to see completion, claims voice actress
Clementine voice actress Melissa Hutchinson took to Twitter to share the news
Jobs
Games industry opens its doors to laid off Telltale employees with #telltalejobs
Online support and a California-based Meet the Dev event hope to transition stranded developers into new roles
Studio Closure
“I'm mostly saddened for the people who are losing their jobs”: Ousted Telltale CEO speaks out on studio closure
Kevin Bruner was originally ousted from the company last year by investors
Lay-off Woes
Game Workers Unite issues scathing response to Telltale Games layoffs
“The system for creating games is broken, and it will result in the collapse of many other beloved studios”
Studio Woes
Telltale Games lays off majority of staff ahead of studio closure
A summary of last week's news: makers of episodic games trimmed to a skeleton staff
About Time
Report: Telltale Games to ditch its own its own tech for Unity game engine
Follows 15 years of using Telltale Tool
Legal Dispute
Former Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner sues studio over alleged contract breach
Claims the developer failed to fulfil obligations after stepping down in 2017
Stranger Definitions
Netflix not getting into games despite commissioning Minecraft interactive TV show and Stranger Things games
How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?
Job News
Former staff at Telltale reveal a toxic working culture at The Walking Dead studio
Ex-employees complained of constant overwork, toxic management and creative stagnation
Job Losses
Telltale games lays of 90 staff amid restructuring
25% of workforce out
Tell No Tales
Telltale Games appoints former Zynga SVP of Games Pete Hawley as President and CEO
Dan Connors steps back into an advisory role
Tell No Tales
Telltale Games CEO Kevin Bruner steps down after two years in charge
Hands reins back to previous CEO Dan Connors
Telling Tales
Telltale recruits ex-ArenaNet Head of Narrative as VP of Creative
Leah Hoyer heads up writing, design and voice-over teams
Telling Tales
Telltale Games publishes its first mobile-only game, Mr Robot:1.51 exfiltratiOn
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Alive And Kicking
Scopely shows it's alive with Telltale crossover event for The Walking Dead: Road to Survival
IP MASH UP
Lion's Share
Lionsgate invests in The Walking Dead creators Telltale Games
TV and film meets gaming
Jobs Board
LINE man joins Wooga, Zynga's reshuffle continues, and Next Games looking for designers
Job lot
Jobs Board
Zynga appoints Pete Hawley as GM, SkyMobi gets new SVP, and Glu, Telltale, and Kabam all search for new talent
New positions
Sneaking Success
The making of Republique
How Camouflaj took stealth beyond Solid Snake
Skulls of the Shogun, The Room 2, and Fiz are heading the Quality Index's Top 10 rated iOS and Android games of December 2013
Critically acclaimed
2013 In Review: PocketGamer.biz contributor Kirk Mckeand
Devs need to 'be nice to each other' in 2014
They're All Hot
Top 50 Mobile Game Developers of 2013
The shakers, makers and movers
The 99c iOS gamer is a myth: Consumers will pay more for quality, insists Telltale Games
The Walking Dead not slowed by $4.99 price tag
Telltale Games CEO Dan Connors on why iPad enhances its reputation for interactive storytelling
Also keen on Kindle, Nook and Android