The Walking Dead franchise has been going strong for well over 15 years, and video games have been a great part of its success. Thanks to acclaimed titles like Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead, the post-apocalyptic series has found interesting ways to continue its story of survival through video games. That has included this year’s release
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While the closure of Telltale Games last fall left an unfortunate note on the release of the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the last two installments of the series were finally released earlier this year from Skybound Games and its StillNotBitten development team. Given that the series managed to reach a satisfying
Yesterday, Skybound Entertainment announced that it was ending its contract with Starbreeze Publishing which allowed the latter company to utilize The Walking Dead IP for its game Overkill’s The Walking Dead. In the process of voiding this contract, it essentially ended all hope of the game’s future console release along with discontinuing to the already-released PC version.
After several years in development by Overkill Software and being published by Starbreeze Studios, the long-awaited Overkill’s The Walking Dead released last November to middling reception from both critics and players. Though support for the game seemed to be in the pipeline for at least the rest of the year alongside console versions of the game
On September 21st of this year, Telltale Games – acclaimed developers of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and more – laid off a majority of its workforce with no severance package and closed its doors for good. For weeks after the announcement, information regarding the shutdown
Last week’s layoffs and inevitable closure of Telltale Games was heartbreaking for a variety of different reasons, one of which being that the studio likely wouldn’t be able to finish the currently ongoing series The Walking Dead: The Final Season according to multiple reports including that of Melissa Hutchison, Clementine’s own voice actress. This evening, Telltale released