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Telltale Games plans comeback and promises ‘not to make similar mistakes’


Telltale Games are back from the dead… mostly

Episodic publisher Telltale Games are not quite as dead as it first appeared, as their new owners hint at new sequels and reissues.

The fall of Telltale Games was something many had seen coming for years, with their increasing reliance on expensivee licences and outdated technology.

The core team was held together long enough to finish the final season of The Walking Dead but there’s been no word on anything continuing after that… until now.

Like the Walkers themselves Telltale Games has risen from the dead and their assets are now the property of the unexcitingly named holding company LCG Entertainment.

They plan to re-publish Telltale’s existing games and, according to Polygon, create new games based on both Telltale’s original properties and new licences.

The new company already has the rights to continue to publish both The Wolf Among Us and Batman, and is apparently looking into reacquiring rights to other older games.

Fans will be particularly excited by the fact that they will be attempting to continue some series, although at the time of their demise the only sequels Telltale were known to be working on were for The Wolf Among Us and Game Of Thrones.

The rights to a Wolf Among Us sequel are now owned by Skybound (founded by The Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman) and considering how the show ended it’s unclear whether a new Game Of Thrones title would even make sense anymore.

The other project they were working on was a tie-in for Stranger Things, which may be one of the licences the new company will be looking to acquire.

Of course, the real assets of the company are the developers themselves and while it’s unclear how many of them might return at least some are being offered freelance roles.

Although one problem is that the new firm will be based in Malibu, California – 400 miles away from the original headquarters in San Rafael.

‘They brought me some of my favourite stories to play and they did an amazing job building a company’, said new boss Jamie Ottilie. ‘It’s unfortunate the way that it ended. Certainly we’re working very hard not to make similar mistakes.’

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