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It appears Telltale Games, known for its popular The Wolf Among Us and excellent The Walking Dead episodic games, hasn't been able to escape the financial pressures hitting video game studios as of late. In a post on X, Former Telltale Games employee Jonah Huang, in September. The news follows a slew of recent from companies such as Naughty Dog, Blizzard, Epic Games and Twitch.
A followed mere hours later, blaming "current market conditions" on the layoffs and that its "projects currently in development are still in production." The layoffs come after a March announcement from Telltale Games that it was to 2024. Huang added that he was unable to comment on the status of The Wolf Among Us 2 due to an NDA. was first announced at The Game Awards back in 2019, with a release date scheduled for 2023. Telltale CEO Jamie Ottilie blamed the delay on needing additional time to shift from Unreal Engine 4 to 5.
Telltale Games also claimed it is making efforts to support those laid off, though it didn't elaborate further as to what those were. Notably, Telltale Games purchased UK-based studio Flavourworks only weeks before the layoffs. Huang included a call for the game industry to unionize in his initial tweet and subsequently called for gaming industry employees to complete a survey about their rates and conditions.
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A followed mere hours later, blaming "current market conditions" on the layoffs and that its "projects currently in development are still in production." The layoffs come after a March announcement from Telltale Games that it was to 2024. Huang added that he was unable to comment on the status of The Wolf Among Us 2 due to an NDA. was first announced at The Game Awards back in 2019, with a release date scheduled for 2023. Telltale CEO Jamie Ottilie blamed the delay on needing additional time to shift from Unreal Engine 4 to 5.
Telltale Games also claimed it is making efforts to support those laid off, though it didn't elaborate further as to what those were. Notably, Telltale Games purchased UK-based studio Flavourworks only weeks before the layoffs. Huang included a call for the game industry to unionize in his initial tweet and subsequently called for gaming industry employees to complete a survey about their rates and conditions.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at
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