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Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, and Batman: The Enemy Within, laid off approximately 250 employees today as part of what the company is calling a "majority studio closure." According to multiple sources The Verge spoke with, employees were let go with no severance.
"Today Telltale Games made the difficult decision to begin a majority studio closure following a year marked by insurmountable challenges," the company said in a statement. "A majority of the company's employees were dismissed earlier this morning." The company will retain a small team of 25. These remaining employees will stay on "to fulfill the company's obligations to its board and partners," according to Telltale.
The final season of Telltale's award-winning series, The Walking Dead, kicked off last month. The second episode is slated to launch next week. Staff were informed of the layoffs today and were given roughly 30 minutes to leave the building, according to one source.
Telltale Games is also behind the new Sam & Max games, Tales of Monkey Island, the Back to the Future game, and Minecraft: Story Mode.
(Score: 2) by Captival on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:42AM (2 children)
They've basically been releasing the exact same game for a decade, only with varying licenses and brands. If it wasn't working, they probably should have changed course by now.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 23 2018, @06:32AM
It was like someone was sprinting through a forest, snapping twigs with every step. That was the sound that the man, Plopham, heard.
Plopham approached the room in which the sound was originating from. Slowly and carefully, Plopham turned the doorknob and opened the door, revealing the contents of the room. His eyes went wide.
It was effective. It was efficient. It was the pinnacle of effectiveness & efficiency. Plopham could not believe what he was bearing witness to. Yet, even if he did not believe it, reality remained the same: A snappy man existed there.
This snappy man was going from child to child and twisting their heads completely backwards, snuffing out their wretched lives instantly. While this was fairly normal, what was out of the ordinary was that he was doing this at a speed that the brain refused to register. To an average person, they would just hear rapid snapping sounds and see the children slump lifelessly to the ground in quick succession.
"Amazing," Plopham thought. This was a truly grand spectacle, one which made Plopham thankful to be alive to witness it. The spectating man thought the children looked like owls, what with their twisted heads. As the man became lost in thought, he almost failed to notice that the snappy man had finished his snapping. Once Plopham noticed, he surveyed the room.
Beautiful. The children - all several hundred of them - were naked and their genitals and anuses were bleeding, indicating that they had been properly utilized beforehand. So, not only did the man snap their little necks at an astounding rate, but he had even taken the time to utilize their yummy bodies. Tears began to flow down Plopham's face.
Unbeknownst to him, this day would eventually be recorded in the history books as 'The Snappening', the day in which mankind began to claw back their rights...
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Sunday September 23 2018, @07:08PM
Well, imagine putting all your eggs in one basket, and they all hatched, so your borrowed a fuckton of money to put 10x as many eggs as you can afford into the same basket all at once.
Management obsessively chasing the critical and popular success they had with TWD season 1 burned the company to the ground.