Looks to be a round of layoffs rather than shutting down: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/21/17888162/telltale-games-layoffs-the-walking-dead

Still sucks though :/.

It's true. The news was on TheVerge and Polygon too.

lots of posts from different things so could be possible :o
someone made a petition to shut down telltale on steam its finally working!

last games where only repeats. they just used the same formular over and over again

NOOO!!!

I don't think so. Probably just layoffs. It hasn't had such a terrible series and not succesful games that they ran out of money.

is it fake or it's for real?
...
appears to be closing its doors,
seem to indicate that the studio is shutting is shutting down or experiencing large-scale layoffs.

It has to be true that they are guessing and extrapolating from what info they have :)
But anyways, TT needs new blood, they are the end of the life-cycle of what they are doing - I hope they can pull off a change similar to the one from point and clikcs to "interactive stories" (and let's forget about Jurassic Park that's QTEs were a malicious joke)

from 250 people to just 25, thats pretty dramatic, also wolf among us and stranger things cancelled. Hard to believe that a company that was pumping games left and right from a lot of well know IPs is in economic problems.

No, no, no. They are my favourite games!

Seems natural. Only need one person to copy/paste the same game with new franchise graphics.

right now im waiting for a reply from support so i can get guardians of the galaxy working

I sure as hell hope not. Telltale games has made most of my favourite games.

it seems it was not noted but Poker Night 2 was removed from sale.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/234710/Poker_Night_2/

I can't say I was interested in any of their games since Walking Dead season 1. Everything else looked basically the same but with a different coat of franchise paint on it. We got three more Sam & Max games thanks to them though, hopefully they can work something out and get back to making games.

telltale, closing down: the game (episode 1)

option 1: don't close telltale
option 2: close it
option 3: i will buy telltale and keep it alive!
option 4: ... ... ...

🤷

option 1 result: TELLTALE CLOSES
option 2 result: TELLTALE CLOSES
option 3 result: TELLTALE CLOSES
option 4 result: TELLTALE CLOSES

🤦‍♀️

telltale, closing down: the game (episode 2)

--PREORDER NOW--

Damn, I really wanted season 2 of The Wolf Among Us.

Well they made all the good games a long time ago, so you know... maybe it's good for an old team to die so a new one can rise from the ashes.

Can say I really started to loose interest in them due to their slightly interactive movies, never like TWD Season 1 as much as other people. Still, generally beat the actual movies made nowadays, and if you had one it wasn't a bad hour or 3 watching it.
Still sucks for all those employees. Hopefully they can find work at companies that match story with actual gameplay.

Для русскоязычной аудитории ^^

https://dtf.ru/gameindustry/27646-smi-telltale-uvolila-pochti-ves-shtat-otmenila-gryadushchie-proekty-i-podala-zayavku-na-bankrotstvo
" Telltale fired almost the entire staff, canceled future projects and filed for bankruptcy
The Wolf Among Us 2 and Stranger Things, according to numerous publications, will not see the light. "

https://www.usgamer.net/articles/report-telltale-games-shutting-down-the-wolf-among-us-2-and-stranger-things-canceled

Update 3 [2:35pm PT]: Telltale has issued a statement announcing that a small team of 25 will stay to "fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners." No word yet on Telltale's other games, but the company says it will explain in the coming weeks. Here's the full statement below:

Today Telltale Games made the difficult decision to begin a majority studio closure following a year marked by insurmountable challenges. A majority of the company’s employees were dismissed earlier this morning, with a small group of 25 employees staying on to fulfill the company’s obligations to its board and partners. CEO Pete Hawley issued the following statement:

“It's been an incredibly difficult year for Telltale as we worked to set the company on a new course. Unfortunately, we ran out of time trying to get there. We released some of our best content this year and received a tremendous amount of positive feedback, but ultimately, that did not translate to sales. With a heavy heart, we watch our friends leave today to spread our brand of storytelling across the games industry.”

Telltale will issue further comments regarding its product portfolio in the coming weeks.

Update 2 [2:10pm]: Telltale co-founder and former Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner has posted a blog calling the layoffs at Telltale a "closure." Seemingly confirming the fate of the studio he co-founded.

Update 1: USgamer learned from multiple anonymous sources familiar with the layoffs at Telltale that employees laid off today will not receive severance pay.

I smelt something fishy only from last year when reportedly the studio was lacking funds. Then the Co-Founder/CEO was sacked due to poor management, it did not go down well. The Co-Founder then sued the company for damages. The company reforms with several sackings. They also dumped their in-house developed software and opted into Unity this year.

At that point of time, I thought it was a sense of stability and they are in a direction to maintain and grow. As subsequently there were news of Wolf among us 2 and Stranger Things announce. Personally, I thought, are you serious? You are lacking funds yet announcing a new game in Stranger Things? Looking back, I guess that was maybe to entice investors to invest in the company. Noone probably was interested. Recently Poker 2 was removed from sales.

Thus today, we read of the news from major gaming outlets that they are closing down. It appears so, with 90% sacked/removed without severance of the 250. 25 remains to finish and support the running "The Walking Dead: The Final Season", from the reviews below: Episodes release dates are Episode 1 - Aug 14th, Episode 2 - Sep 25th, Episode 3 - Nov 06th, Episode 4 - Dec 18th. It will not take too long to tell if its true.

Reference from Wikipedia

On September 21, 2018, multiple Telltale employees stated that they had been laid off as the company was shutting down.[34] Subsequently, >the company stated that they had reduced their staff of approximately 250 people by 90%, to a core team of 25.[35] The let-go employees >were informed that they would not receive severance.[36] The Wolf Among Us: Season Two and the untitled Stranger Things game were >effectively canceled, while the remaining team would finish the final season of The Walking Dead.

My personal opinion is Telltales started off as an interactive way of telling a story getting the player involved and immersed in a written plot. The interaction was unique, however it did not evolve with time. With other RPG games with similar mechanics and story plot, the ability to roam a free world, its not a hard decision to move along. I am not blaming the previous management but there has to be changes after a certain stage. Twitch is one of the reason blamed for poor sales as once viewers viewed the content and subsequently become disinterested either in the plot or purchasing the game since the plot had been revealed. Although, you can usually play the game with different paths for different endings, that is not enough of a draw for the company in this case.

They will be missed, they have great stories. Hopefully, there comes some resolution or else AND of what's the industry in recent years, they will be buried in the heap of games/studio of the past.

Edit: Its official https://twitter.com/telltalegames/status/1043252010999410689
Warmest Wishes, Cruse~

They must've spent a small fortune buying the rights to all of those franchises. Many of their games looked too similar to one another as well.

I'd be fine with it. they'd gone from being a really interesting, creative company to a cookie-cutter developer. they get the licence, then just pump out the quickest most generic games they can with them. A shame, really... not a shame that what theyve become is in trouble, but because of what they could have been if they'd focused more on building quality than quantity.