- Celebrate 20 Years of The Walking Dead with the Anniversary Sale! - 20 October 2023
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- A second graphic novel continuing the story of Telltale's The Walking Dead releases today - 3 October 2023
Clementine: Book Two — the second book in a planned trilogy of young adult graphic novels starring the heroine of Telltale's The Walking Dead series of video games — goes on sale today (October 3). It follows on from (you might have guessed it) last year's Clementine: Book One, and is considered canon to the games per Skybound, IP holders for the entire Walking Dead franchise founded by the original comics' author Robert Kirkman. You may recall Skybound stepping in as publishers to resurrect the series like one of its own walkers after Telltale suddenly announced its "majority studio closure" in 2018, with two episodes of the final season still as-then unmade. The premise of the Clementine trilogy is admittedly somewhat controversial among fans of the games, on account of how it almost immediately overrode the happy ending of The Walking Dead: The Final Season , in which – spoilers! – C…
- Pre-Order Clementine + Lee Level 52 Collector’s Statue NOW - 29 October 2021
Hi everyone, One of our most sought after collector’s items is now available for pre-order! Designed and produced by premium collectible makers Level 52 Studios, in close consultation with Robert Kirkman and members of the Telltale team, this is a must-have item for any Telltale’s The Walking Dead fan. This statue arrives in Level 52 Studios’ premium art box packaging. It looks incredible on a shelf or could be used as bookends for your video game collection or Walking Dead comics! We know a lot of fans on our social channels have been clamoring for this item so we’re now happy to say you can pre-order it today! Check out here for more info or contact our helpdesk for specific questions here, or on our Discord. And if you have some more time to spare today, please check out our Skybound Halloween Xpo Livestream here. We’ve got a ton of great panels, including a chat with Lee and Clem th…
- Clementine Returns in Skybound X Comics + B.Y.E. Debuts for Skybound Games - 23 April 2021
Hi everyone, It’s been over 2 years since the #StillNotBitten team and Skybound Games closed the final chapter of Telltale’s The Walking Dead with the release of The Final Season – “Take Us Back.” Since then, we know our incredible community of fans have clamored for a continuation of Clementine’s story and the remarkable world she inhabited. So we are ecstatic to report that Clementine will make her first appearance ever in a comic book in the recently announced SKYBOUND X! With Robert Kirkman’s (creator of The Walking Dead) blessing and in partnership with acclaimed author Tillie Walden, SKYBOUND X will celebrate Skybound’s tenth anniversary and include all-new stories from The Walking Dead universe (including an alt-universe Rick Grimes 2000!) that no fan should miss. The event series will include five weekly issues of the comic book and it kicks off Wednesday, July 7! You can find m…
- The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners is out now from Skydance Interactive! - 25 January 2020
We congratulate our friends at Skydance Interactive for their successful launch of this new chapter in The Walking Dead universe, The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners! It is great to see players entering a new part of the walker filled world, meeting new characters and experiencing new stories in this series' first jump into VR. We wish all the tourists playing right now the best of luck in their journey through post-apocalyptic New Orleans! Check out the game now!
- Skybound Games had five staff when they stepped in to save The Walking Dead - 8 April 2019
In a recent interview with Gamespot , Telltale's former creative director Kent Mudle and CEO of Skybound Games Ian Howe discussed the resurrection of The Walking Dead: The Final Season . When Telltale's closure was announced in 2018 only the first episode of the four-episode series had been released, and while the second made it out before doors closed the last two were still in early stages of pre-production.  Skybound stepped in help out, even though their games division consisted only of five people. "We were less than a year old and we were still definitely in training wheels", Howe explained. Fortunately the work seems to have been relatively painless. "Telltale was literally the lowest maintenance team I've ever worked with," he said, "they literally just came back in and got on with the job." Howe also discussed how important it was to get some of the original…
- The Walking Dead - The Final Season Episode 4: Take Us Back review - It was never going to be easy to say goodbye to Clem, was it? - 29 March 2019
I thought he was just another corpse at first. Body bruised and blackened, he looked dead, anyway. That said, I'm so used to death at this point - both the humdrum and the heartbreaking ones - I barely register the bodies scattered around, and didn't notice this one at all until he raises his head. He lifts bloodshot eyes to mine and begs for mercy, pleads to be put out of his misery. Clem stares back, unblinking. My gut instinct is to oblige, of course. Perhaps yours would be, too. But I hesitate. I have no idea how many bullets are in the chamber of this misappropriated firearm. What if I'm one bullet short for a key fight later? What if stopping this guy from turning now means he isn't there to attack someone - someone bad - further on in the story? My decision-paralysis roots Clementine to the spot and I realise how deeply Telltale's evocative take on Robert Kirkman's cruel, zombie-…
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season finally finishes today - 26 March 2019
Having survived the death of Telltale Games and risen from the grave, The Walking Dead: The Final Season today launched its fourth and final episode. This is the end, the end of Clementine’s story, the proper end of Telltale’s tales, the end of it all. I’m sure she’ll be fine. Here, have a peek at the trailer. (more…)
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season review - 26 March 2019
Remember the last episode of Lost? Where several seasons’ worth of narrative groundwork was abandoned in favour of a series of nostalgic flashbacks and weepy reunions? Looking back, you can see the sense in it: having written themselves into a corner, the show’s creators decided to tug at viewers’ heartstrings in the hope that they’d invested enough in the characters to at least feel emotionally satisfied. The Walking Dead: The Final Season doesn’t have the same knotty lore to deal with, but attempts to pull off a similar trick. Unlike Lost, it’s a missed opportunity to connect more fully with its past. But it’s similarly likely to provoke tears—and a few howls of frustration besides. Whether this is close to the send-off that was originally planned for Clementine is hard to divine—but surely her story wasn’t set to w…
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season concludes next week - 20 March 2019
Clementine has been dodging zombies and deadline with considerably more dangerous humans since 2012, when The Walking Dead first launched. Seven years later, she's due a rest, which she'll get one way or another later this month. Take Us Back, The Final Season finale , is coming next week. Check out the trailer above.  Pretty grim! They're all grim trailers, of course, but this one just piles it on. The last episode ended on a cliffhanger, naturally, but hopefully this one will offer some closure. I'm not expecting a happy ending, but it would be nice if at least one of them didn't lead to tears. No chance.  See if you can avoid zombie bites when Take Us Back launches on March 26. 
- Final ever episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead has a release date - 20 March 2019
This is it. Seven years on from when we first met Clementine, we now know when we'll have to say our final goodbyes. The final ever episode of Telltale's The Walking Dead will arrive in just under a week's time, on 26th March. That date applies for all console versions of the game - Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, as well as PC, where it is exclusive to the Epic Games store. Read more
- An epilogue for the staff of Telltale - 14 February 2019
At the tail end of last year, I wrote an article on Telltale's closure . I talked to those who had worked there about what it was like at the company when roughly 274 people suddenly lost their jobs. With this many writers, artists, testers and others left stranded without severance more than four months ago, I wanted to find out how those affected are doing in 2019. Following the closure, there was a huge push by fans of Telltale's games and the industry as a whole to help those in need however they could. On the industry side this led to a careers fair for those recently made unemployed, while the community of gamers supporting Telltale employees used the Telltalejobs hashtag to spread word of employment opportunities. Emily Grace Buck - a former narrative designer at Telltale and current lead writer at Gato Salvaje Studio - has been a major voice for those left jobless since Septembe…
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season's last episode gets a confirmed March release date - 4 February 2019
Skybound Games has confirmed that the fourth (and last-ever) episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, titled Take Us Back, will launch on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Switch, and PC on March 26th. If that rings a bell, Episode 4's presumed release date has been knocking around for a couple of weeks now, albeit in a not-strictly-official capacity. March 26th first appeared within the game itself, nonchalantly attached to the fourth episode's menu placeholder, when Episode 3 launched last month. However, the accuracy of that date has remained a little uncertain, at least until Skybound made it official in a tweet earlier today . In the same tweet, Skybound also confirmed that The Walking Dead's final season will, to the undoubted delight of traditionalists everywhere, be getting a physical release on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Switch. That arrives alongside Episode 4 on March 26th. Re…
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season Episode 3 is out now - 15 January 2019
The penultimate episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is out now, picking up Clementine and AJ's story where Telltale left off, before the studio's closure. Clem is getting ready to kick some asses to rescue her friends, while her impressionable charge watches every tough choice she has to make.  Clem's now in the position Lee was, all the way back in the first season. Over six years ago! Crikey. I got burned out on The Walking Dead around the time of the Michonne spin-off, so I'm a bit far behind, but nostalgia for that first season is tempting me back. Telltale's made better games since, but none with the emotional impact of that first season of The Walking Dead. It came as a bit of a surprise, too. The first episode was an awkward mix of Telltale's new vision for adventure games and the traditional stuff they'd been doing in things like…
- Here's a first look at the long-awaited third episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season - 7 January 2019
Skybound Games has offered a first look at the new instalment of defunct studio Telltale Games' recently resuscitated The Walking Dead: The Final Season, and it seems like Clementine is in a reflective mood. Episode Three is, of course, the first instalment of the series to emerge following Telltale Games' closure last year. When the studio initially announced that it had laid off the majority of its staff , including the entire Walking Dead development team, only one episode of The Final Season had so far been released. Episode Two, which arrived shortly after, was the last episode to be completed by Telltale and it was feared that the remaining planned instalments, and a conclusion to the series which began all the way back in 2012, would never see the light of day. That changed, however, when Skybound Games - owned by The Walking Dead comic creator Robert Kirkman - announced that it…
- Kids do the craziest things in The Walking Dead: The Final Season's Episode 3 trailer - 7 January 2019
The Walking Dead: The Final Season 's third and penultimate episode, Broken Toys, will rise from the Epic Games Store on January 15, nudging us closer to the conclusion of Clementine's gory, tragic tale. Take a gander at the trailer above.  Skybound Games resurrected the series after Telltale closed, promising to develop it with a team made up of exclusively ex-Telltale staff . There are still ex-Telltale staff out of work because of the unexpected closure, however.  The Final Season is also now an Epic Games Store exclusive . If you already own The Walking Dead: The Final Season on Steam or GOG, you'll be able to play the third episode normally, but anyone buying it now will have to visit Epic's shop. 
- Moments of 2018: The closure of Telltale Games - 23 December 2018
Involuntarily awake at 3AM, blearily scrolling through my Twitter feed, the news of Telltale's majority studio closure was a real heart-stopper, despite the multiple times similar news had already broken this year. Just like that, one moment a developer is there, then they're gone. This, coupled with more than one indie developer opening up about the obligation to turn their games into huge successes to keep their head above water, and several reports of unacceptable working conditions at large-scale studios, made it obvious that video game development is a volatile business, perhaps more than ever. Telltale is an especially pertinent case, because when a beloved studio abruptly closes, after the smoke clears and the bafflement dissipates, the illusion that many have of video game design as some sort of magical land of endless creativity and piles of money has taken another hit. Telltal…
- Future purchases of Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season on PC exclusive to the Epic Games Store - 21 December 2018
Skybound has done a deal with Epic to bring Telltale's The Walking Dead: The Final Season on PC to the Epic Games Store. All future purchases of The Final Season are exclusive to the Epic Games Store, in fact. However, if you've already bought the season on a different PC platform, Steam for example, you'll still get the final two episodes from your previous point of purchase. Skybound picked up development of The Walking Dead: The Final Season after Telltale went under in September (for more, be sure to check out our feature, Telltale's final year: a story cut short ). The third episode, called Broken Toys, comes out 15th January. Read more…
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season resumes January 15th on the Epic Games Store - 20 December 2018
Not only has Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season found a new developer in Skybound Games after Telltale’s sudden implosion , but it’s setting up shop on the Epic Games Store. If you already bought the season on Steam or anywhere else, you’ll find the upcoming two episodes there, but for anyone thinking of picking up the series now, it’s exclusive to Epic’s new storefront starting with Episode 3: Broken Toys on January 15th. Below, the voice of Clementine – Melissa Hutchinson – gives us an official FAQ on what’s happening with the rest of the season. (more…)
- Telltale's final year: a story cut short - 20 December 2018
"No one knew what was happening; there was no warning. When we got the news, people cried, hugged, or stared blankly ahead. In the aftermath, people wondered what they would do without health insurance, what would happen with their work visas, what to tell their families. For me, it was a day of mind-numbing shock. The full weight of what had happened and what it meant going forward - not being in that office, not working with my team, not being on a project I'd spent over a year on - took weeks to sink in." That's Mary Kenney, a video game writer who worked at Telltale before its closure earlier this year. Her retelling of the events of 21st September 2018 depicts a studio of people in mourning for their work, shocked at the situation that was pushed upon them and worried about their future. Telltale was dead and all of a sudden 250 people had lost their jobs. It would later come to li…
