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posted by martyb on Sunday September 23 2018, @04:05AM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-a-tale-of-woe dept.

The Walking Dead developer Telltale hit with devastating layoffs as part of a 'majority studio closure'

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @12:59AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 24 2018, @12:59AM (#739023)

    "Two weeks is the norm for you telling an employer that you're leaving, but that isn't any kind of requirement."

    Unless of course that company is a part of a much larger group of companies (increasingly the norm.) and don't want to blacklist you from hundreds potential employment opportunities. At which point it becomes kind of a requirement.

    But yeah, if it's normal in the US for management to not pay employees they're laying off for any outstanding work, then I can totally understand why employees feel like throwing a wrench in the works if given the chance to do so. In their minds they're just getting their money's worth of entertainment out of what was owed them in the first place.