Telltale’s The Walking Dead Concludes March 26
For those just now tuning in, it’s been a wild and tumultuous ride for Telltale Games’ adaption of the Walking Dead comic book. The series was one of Telltale’s most popular offerings, and the company responded to its popularity by licensing as many properties as they could and making the same game with all of them. Reckless spending, mismanagement, and mistreatment of workers combined to push Telltale over the edge, and it publicly collapsed in September of 2018. The sudden bankruptcy left all of Telltale’s projects in limbo, including The Walking Dead. A skeleton crew was kept around to complete the latest chapter of the final season, but after that, the doors were shuttered. Two chapters away from completion, Telltale’s The Walking Dead was involuntarily cancelled. Fortunately, Skybound Entertainment — Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman’s production company — stepped in at that point. They brought production of the game in-house and hired back most of the laid-off employees from Telltale’s crew. Now the series has literally survived the apocalypse, and
