Telltale update: Walking Dead Final Season canceled, team remains only to finish Netflix project
Following the surprise closure of Telltale Games, we now know that the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead Final Season have been canceled.
Today has not been a good day for fans, followers, or employees of Telltale Games. Following an earlier story that reported on the suprise layoff of employees and subsequent bankruptcy-related closure, sources are now reporting that the final episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season have been canceled, and the 25 employees remaining at the studio are solely focused on finishing the Minecraft Story Mode collaboration with Netflix.
According to a report from USGamer, a number of anonymous sources have confirmed that "The Walking Dead Final Season will not be completed," leaving the remainder of Clementine's story completely unfinished. Furthermore, Telltale gave a statement saying that the remaining employees are there just to "fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners."
With this news in mind, it's safe to say that the closure of Telltale Games has effectively terminated the rest of the company's projects, spelling an end not only for The Walking Dead: The Final Season, but also for the Stranger Things project and the planned sequel to The Wolf Among Us.
Studio co-founder and former CEO Kevin Bruner recently took to his personal blog to confirm that the closure rumors are indeed true, saying that he's "saddened at the loss of a studio that green-lit crazy ideas that no one else would consider." A statement from Telltale itself said that the closure was ultimately borne of poor sales despite positive feedback from fans.
Now that Telltale Games is no more, it seems that the upcoming Minecraft Story Mode project will be the last we see of the studio. While not exactly a game, the unique Netflix collaboration will apparently allow viewers to enjoy Minecraft Story Mode from within the Netflix app in what the company calls an "interactive adventure."
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That's six years of emotional investment down the tubes.
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episodic gaming strikes again
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You mean Sin Episode 'd
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Valve'd.
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Wow. Guess ill uh, not start season 2.
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You'll come out ahead anyway. None of your choices end up making any difference.
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Ah man wtf I was enjoying it a lot fuckers they should refund my money then.
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Execs got paid, fuck everyone else.
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They expanded. Hired a lot of people and were working on multiple projects at the same time. However due to the episodic nature of their games and working on so many concurrently they started to all feel the same and didn't have the polish that Walking Dead Season 1 had.
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Yep and since they always had projects going it seemed like they never had a chance to do the step back and evaluate and update mechanics/technology instead it was one long slow evolution which added to the feeling of sameness across their games.
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I swear they just had a bunch of sites doing previews/early reviews of TWD Final Season. WTF happened I thought they're games always sold well. That's sucks for everyone.
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