News hit late last week that Telltale Games, the studio behind story-driven titles like The Walking Dead: Season 1, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman: The Telltale Series, was shutting down. In the process well over 200 employees were let go on the spot, with a skeleton crew of just 25 staying on, allegedly to finish up obligations related to the company’s deal with Netflix for Minecraft:...
Telltale Games has been rocking major announcements with partnerships any studio would be jealous of, but one of the more unexpected choices was a decision to create an adventure game based on Minecraft. Seven months later, we have our first official Minecraft: Story Mode trailer straight from London Minecon. Players will control an every-man named Jesse who teams up with a band of...
The headline says it all folks! Telltale Games, the development studio behind The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones, has just signed a deal with Marvel and will hopefully have a game ready for release by 2017. Marvel made the announcement at an event in San Francisco on Thursday. Marvel Executive Producer Mike Jones did not state what heroes Telltale would be allowed to work with, but...
Few game developers have been able to deliver on the promise of episodic content the way Telltale has. Now the developer is looking to take their episodic games to the next stage. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner explained the concept of the Super Show, a new game format the company is working on in conjunction with Lionsgate Entertainment. “A ‘Super Show...
If it wasn’t for the dialogue choices and standard Telltale adventure game timer along the bottom, I would have assumed this was another mainline Borderlands screenshot. That’s not the case, of course, as this, and the four in the gallery below, come from Telltale’s upcoming Tales from the Borderlands run. Telltale announced last year at VGX that they’d be taking a crack at 2K’s...
Telltale Games scoring Game of Thrones development rights shows just how far the company has evolved since it first started making Sam & Max games, but many are wondering how they are going to tackle such a complex world. Will the game feature well known characters? Will it be an original story? Will it be a prequel? Telltale CEO Dan Connors has dropped some information in an...
It's finally here. The second episode of Telltale's prequel to Bill Willingham's Fables comic is upon us. We've been waiting a long time for The Wolf Among Us "Smoke & Mirrors." The first episode released in October of last year, if you can believe that, and it left us with a profound and incredibly intriguing cliffhanger. This new episode wraps that moment up and brings with it...
Here is another emerging threat to video game permanence from the growing power of digital distribution. Games are being pulled from distribution for a growing number of reasons. Without a physical backup, how can a game ever find its way back into the public eye? The latest victim of this growing trend is Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, a series of graphic adventure games...
We loved the first episode of Telltale's The Wolf Among Us. This Fables inspired detective story was delightful, and we can't wait to see where it goes from here. If you haven't played the game yet, and you're an Xbox 360 owner, you might want to pop onto Xbox LIVE in order to nab the first episode of the five episode first season soon. It's free right now on Xbox LIVE, and it will...
What's always made The Walking Dead such a compelling narrative is not the undead. It's not the constantly present danger of zombies pressing in on all sides. It's the living. The zombies are the walking undead. The people, the characters that make up the story around the anti-heroes, are the walking dead. This series has always been about relationships, decisions and consequence....