Telltale’s Monkey Island, Jurassic Park, and Back To The Future games have have been pulled from sale on Steam, although of us who already personal any can maintain enjoying them and different shops do nonetheless promote ’em – for now. This comes as the corporate goes by way of the ultimate motions of legally shutting down, settling property, and all that after laying off most employees in September and those remaining in October.
The Steam retailer pages for Tales Of Monkey Island, Jurassic Park: The Game, and Back To The Future: The Game are nonetheless up however they don’t seem in Steam’s search outcomes and you’ll’t purchase them. If you have already got any, you continue to have them. I simply downloaded and began enjoying Monkey Island, so that’s nonetheless an choice. All their different games nonetheless appear to be obtainable.
Given that these (and most of Telltale’s games) are all based mostly on licensed motion pictures, games, TV reveals, and such, it’s doubtless this was required within the occasion of the corporate going away. As for the remainder of their games… assuming they aren’t additionally due for the chop, they’re property with worth and can generate cash, so it’d be unusual if no firm or entity or shadowy manifestation of capitalism had been fascinated about holding them on sale.
For now, no less than, these three are nonetheless obtainable on GOG.
Behind the scenes, GameDaily confirmed that an organization named Sherwood Partners is liquidating property and wrapping up the corporate. The authorized stuff. Telltale haven’t declared chapter, they’re simply getting all the things so as earlier than shutting down.
Telltale defined again in September that the corporate merely wasn’t making sufficient cash to maintain on going.
Skybound Entertainment, the corporate of Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman, plan to finish Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season, which has stalled within the center. They had hoped to get some Telltale of us serving to out Skybound’s personal games studio however clearly it’s not fairly the identical.
A former Telltale worker filed a class action suit towards the corporate in September, accusing it of violating Californian employment regulation in shedding most the studio with no discover and really restricted advantages.
