Earlier today, previous Telltale Games motion picture musician Jonah Huang disclosed on Twitter that he had actually been let go from the workshop in very early September. In his tweet, he composes that “Telltale laid most of us off in early September,” which the discharges happened weeks after the business obtained U.K.-based workshop, Flavourworks, which established Erica.
This is an aching topic, however I feel it required to contribute to the video gaming discharge information: Telltale laid the majority of us off early September. Status of TWAU2, I can not claim (NDA).
Now, I concentrate on what issues to me—my very own game, and also the adhering to words:
Games sector, we have to UNIONIZE.
1/5
— jjonahjonahson (@jjonahjonahson) October 5, 2023
Telltale has actually currently verified to Game Informer that discharges at the workshop did take place, although its main declaration includes no reference of simply the number of staff members were released. Here’s Telltale’s declaration to Game Informer, completely:
Game Informer asked Telltale the number of staff members it gave up, however was unable to get particular numbers, divisions impacted, or even more updates past the above declaration on in-development tasks. However, as formerly kept in mind, Huang, that passes J.H. according to their web site, states Telltale laid “most of us off.”
These Telltale discharges come years after the studio’s 2019 resurrection by new management. In 2018, the studio laid off 90 percent of its staff prior to ultimately closing altogether later that year. Pre-closure, Telltale was possibly best understood for its four-season, anecdotal game, The Walking Dead. Roughly a year after its closure, the business was bought in 2019 by its now-CEO, Jamie Ottilie, and also capitalists with the need to bring the narrative-based workshop back to life.
The brand-new Telltale showed up with a trailer at The Games Awards 2019 for its brand-new take on The Wolf Among Us 2, a follow up that was supposedly in growth at the previous version of the workshop. The last we came across that game was back in March, when Telltale revealed it was delaying it out of 2023 and into next year.
While The Wolf Among Us 2 was the initial game this brand-new version of Telltale displayed, its initial game is in fact The Expanse: A Telltale Series, which saw its first episode launched back in July. All 5 of its episodes were launched in between July and also September. The Expanse: A Telltale Series presently rests at a 76 on Metacritic.
The hearts of the Game Informer personnel are with everybody impacted by these discharges and also those still at the workshop.
