Telltale Games

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Telltale, Incorporated

logo
legal form Corporation
founding 2004
resolution November 2018
Reason for dissolution insolvency
Seat San Rafael (United States)
management Pete Hawley ( CEO )
Kevin Bruner ( CTO )
Number of employees approx. 25
Branch Computer games
Website www.telltale.com

Telltale Games 2007 employees at Comic-Con

Telltale Games was a developer studio for computer games from the US-American San Rafael .

history

Telltale Games was founded in 2004 by a group of former LucasArts employees . They had last worked there on Sam & Max: Freelance Police when LucasArts decided to discontinue the project. The programming team at Telltale Games was made up of experienced developers from adventure games who have worked on Grim Fandango , Monkey Island and Sam & Max Hit the Road , among others.

The first game developed by Telltale Games came out in 2005, Telltale Texas Hold'em was a poker simulation. The first adventure was Bone: Out from Boneville , released in the same year , which appears in episodes and is based on the comic series Bone by Jeff Smith . After the release of the first episode of Bone , Telltale Games announced that they would be releasing Sam & Max as an episode series. In 2006 the first episode appeared online on Gametap . The second season was released between 2007 and 2008, and the third season was released in 2010.

Telltale Games also developed games for the television series CSI: On the trail of the perpetrators and, since 2009, for Wallace & Gromit . That same year, the first episode of Lucasarts-based Tales of Monkey Island , based on Monkey Island , was also released. Since it was founded in 2005, over a million games have been sold for the PC , Xbox 360 and Wii platforms . Back to the Future and Jurassic Park were released in 2011 . In 2012, the five-part series The Walking Dead, set in Robert Kirkman's parallel universe , was released . In November 2014, the developers released the first of five episodes of Tales from the Borderlands . The episodes can be purchased either individually or as a complete package and appear at regular intervals. As of December 2014, Telltale Games released six episodes of a PC game set in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire ( Game of Thrones ). In cooperation with Mojang , the Minecraft development studio , the episode game Minecraft: Story Mode was released in October 2015 . Another project by Telltale Games followed in August 2016 with Batman: The Telltale Series .

Crisis and closure

On September 21, 2018, the studio announced that it would largely close and lay off most of the approximately 240 employees previously. Approximately 25 employees were retained to meet the company's obligations to its board of directors and partners. According to US Gamer , they will be working on Minecraft: Story Mode . The last season of The Walking Dead , however, should not be completed, but this was taken over by the publisher Skybound Entertainment. The final episode of the last season was released on schedule on March 26, 2019; However, The Wolf Among Us 2 and Stranger Things have been permanently canceled.

The decision in favor of the “ Majority Studio Closure ” was justified by the fact that last year's sales figures were not high enough to guarantee receipt. CEO Pete Hawley emphasized that it was not a closure and that the downsized studio would continue to exist.

In November 2018, Pete Hawley announced the complete closure of the studio. To pay off the debts of the studio, a liquidation was started; older games have been taken off the market.

New opening by LCG Entertainment

In August 2019, the naming rights to the Telltale brand were acquired by the US company LCG Entertainment. This had only recently been founded by two veterans of the computer game industry and its business activity is limited to the marketing of old Telltale games, whereby the licenses for some games such as The Walking Dead and Stranger Things could not be acquired as they were passed to other owners were. The development of new games is planned according to LCG Entertainment.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Walking Dead studio Telltale hit with layoffs (English)
  2. ↑ Press release on the foundation ( Memento from November 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ SPON game test Bone
  4. ↑ SPON game test Sam & Max
  5. ↑ Season Three announcement (English)
  6. ↑ IGN game test CSI (English)
  7. ↑ consolero.de game test .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.consolero.at  
  8. ↑ BILD game test Tales of Monkey Island
  9. ↑ Press release May 14, 2009 ( Memento from August 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Tales from the Borderlands - Episode 1 out for PC and Xbox One - insidegames .
  11. ↑ Tales from the Borderlands - PS4 version .
  12. ↑ Kevin Bruner takes Telltale CEO reins, as Dan Connors steps back (English)
  13. ↑ a b c Telltale Games on Twitter . In: Twitter . ( twitter.com [accessed September 21, 2018]).
  14. ↑ The Walking Dead The Final Season Episode 4 OUT NOW !! In: Skybound Entertainment. March 26, 2019, Retrieved March 28, 2019 (American English).
  15. ↑ Matt Kim: Sources: Telltale Games Closes Majority of Studio, The Wolf Among Us 2 and Stranger Things Canceled [Update, Correction ] . In: US Gamer . September 21, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  16. ↑ Pete Hawley on Twitter .
  17. ↑ Lights out at Telltale - Title removed from Steam - GameStar . ( gamestar.de [accessed on November 16, 2018]).
  18. ↑ Telltale Games: Liquidation started - studio is apparently closed completely . In: playm.de . November 15, 2018 ( playm.de [accessed November 16, 2018]).
  19. ↑ Adventure-Treff.de: Telltale Games is back! Retrieved August 28, 2019 .