UNHAPPY ENDING

The tragedy of Telltale Games: how a pioneer of interactive storytelling became another industry casualty

Even by Telltale’s standards, the final twist was shocking. This studio of storytellers had, after all, seemed back to its best. Batman: The Enemy Within was considered a vast improvement on the disappointing first season. The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the last bow for the studio’s best-loved character, Clementine, had got off to a stellar start. And yet, on 21 September 2018, four days before the release of its second episode, rumours quickly became reality: Telltale released a statement announcing a “majority closure” and the loss of 250 jobs. Though it said it would retain a skeleton staff of just 25 employees – in theory, to finish its episodic collaboration with Netflix, an adaptation of the studio’s Minecraft: Story Mode – it was, to all intents and purposes, the…

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Gamesmaster (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2018

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