Not solely has Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season discovered a new developer in Skybound Games after Telltale’s sudden implosion, but it surely’s establishing store on the Epic Games Store. If you already purchased the season on Steam or anyplace else, you’ll discover the upcoming two episodes there, however for anybody pondering of selecting up the sequence now, it’s unique to Epic’s new storefront beginning with Episode 3: Broken Toys on January 15th. Below, the voice of Clementine – Melissa Hutchinson – offers us an official FAQ on what’s taking place with the remainder of the season.
I have to admit that I’m stunned at how nicely Skybound have salvaged the state of affairs. As Alice previously noted, they’ve not managed to get the complete workforce again, however have employed on at the least forty Telltale of us to complete the story they began again in 2012. Skybound are additionally house owners of the Walking Dead license, and have been based by the unique comedian writer Robert Kirkman. While a whole lot of Telltale of us are nonetheless in search of work or in any other case displaced, it’s now not the unmitigated and tragic catastrophe that I used to be fearing – it’s merely terrible, which is a big enchancment.
Skybound have been communicative, and the FAQ video goes an extended technique to clearing up the finer factors of what’s taking place now. The dangerous information there’s that Skybound don’t appear to have picked up any of Telltale’s different licenses. Unless you purchased a few of Telltale’s earlier adventures on Steam earlier than they were delisted, you’re not going to select them up in any authentic sense till an answer is discovered. Fortunately, Steam is fairly good about letting you retain stuff in your account completely in case you’ve paid for it, even when it’s been pulled from digital retailer cabinets, but it surely could be greatest to obtain and again stuff up anyway – simply in case.
I’m afraid The Wolf Among Us and any additional Telltale stuff is misplaced in limbo, though there’s at all times an opportunity somebody will snap these up and attempt to resume these tales. I’m simply hoping that Borderlands Three picks up the place Tales From The Borderlands (Telltale’s greatest, struggle me) left off. This can also be one more PR coup for Epic, and one more in a rising checklist of high-profile exclusives. They’re pushing laborious to be a critical competitor to Steam, all whereas taking a a lot smaller income reduce. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how it will power’s Valve’s hand, however I don’t count on a lot to occur till after the vacations.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s third episode, Broken Toys, launches on January 15th. If you already purchased the season on Steam, you’ll get it there, however these late to the get together ought to control the Epic Games Store subsequent month.
