Eleven months after Telltale Games laid off employees and shut down, the corporate are again. Kinda. Ish. Not actually. Holding firm LCG Entertainment at the moment introduced that they’ve purchased a piece of Telltale’s mental properties, property, emblems, and know-how. Wrapping themselves within the flayed conceal of Telltale Games and utilizing their title, LCG Entertainment plan to not solely return previous Telltale games to sale however make new games in previous collection too. This isn’t a transfer by former Telltale people, thoughts, extra a gaggle of buyers. But Telltale are again, child! Kinda. Ish. Not actually.
The new Telltale Games is headed by Jamie Ottili, whose career has targeted on licensed games, and gross sales and advertising and marketing man Brian Waddle. Investors and advisors embody Chris Kingsley (co-founder of Rebellion), Lyle Hall (CEO of Heavy Iron Studios, who make licensed games), Tobias Sjögren (former CEO of White Wolf), and Athlon Games (a writer based by Leyou, the homeowners of Digital Extremes and Splash Damage).
“All of us were big fans of the games Telltale created, as we strongly believe in games as a storytelling medium and nobody did it better,” Ottilie stated in today’s announcement. “Even now, when you see a game with strong narrative, it’s always compared to Telltale, so it’s no surprise that players and industry colleagues alike mourned the studio’s closure. We believe there is still so much life to the brand and its franchises, and we look forward to building upon the company’s storytelling legacy.”
Ottilie told Polygon that rights the brand new Telltale maintain embody The Wolf Among Us and Batman in addition to Telltale-owned collection like Puzzle Agent. Many of the licenses Telltale held have ended, thoughts, together with The Walking Dead and Stranger Things.
Loads of Telltale’s games had been pulled from sale after the corporate shut down, and Nutale plan to get them (a few of them?) again on the market. They’re making new ones too.
LCG Entertainment say that “key talent from the original company has been hired or contracted” however I might be shocked if it’s many individuals. Telltale staff have wanted to maneuver on with their lives and their careers over the previous eleven months, discovering new jobs in new locations. Many of them reunited at Skybound Games to finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season. LCG could have the Telltale title and even some Telltalers however games are made by groups and people had been torn aside. It can’t be the identical now. That stated, I’ll be stoked if this does work out all peachy eager and an excellent new Telltale rise from the ashes.
Please let Wolfamongus 2 occur. Please let or not it’s good.
Nutale will work in another way, Ottilie informed Polygon, specializing in instruments, tech and design themselves however outsourcing facets like movement seize and animation. They may additionally fiddle with the form of Telltale games.
“We will probably keep the concept of episodes but with different pacing,” he informed Polygon. “This is a different world, from a media consumption standpoint. We need to look at how people like to entertain themselves. I like the idea of binge watching.”
Rolling tales right into a lump for ‘binge watching’? What would we even name that? Non-episodic? Nopeisodic? It’ll by no means catch on.
