Telltale Games, creators of the episodic The Walking Dead, Batman, and Game of Thrones games, shut down last year after a tumultuous timeline of events, but a company called LCG Entertainment is bringing the beloved studio`s name back from the dead. The new company plans to sell some of Telltale`s back-catalog and will work on new games based on Telltale-associated properties and new licences.Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle are heading up the new Telltale. Ottilie has spent much of his career in mobile games and was previously the founder and CEO of Galaxy Pest Control, a studio known for its work on licenced games such as Duck Dynasty, Power Rangers Legends, and Hotel Transylvania 2. Waddle, meanwhile, ran sales and marketing for the Havok game engine at Intel and later Microsoft.In an interview with Polygon, Ottilie said that some workers from the original Telltale Games will be offered freelance roles at the new Telltale, with full-time positions possible in the future--so this is very much Telltale in name only at this point. He also confirmed that the new company still has back-catalog rights to licenced properties like The Wolf Among Us and Batman, as well as full rights to original Telltale games such as Puzzle Agent.Before Telltale closed its door last year, the company was working on a sequel to The Wolf Among Us, with an announcement in 2017 and a planned release window sometime in 2018. Obviously that never happened, but Ottilie says it`s possible the new Telltale will pick up some stories where they left off. `We`re still evaluating, but we definitely want to continue some of the stories,` he said. Whether The Wolf Among Us 2 is part of that equation remains to be seen, and it`s not likely to resemble the game the original team was working on. What we do know, however, is that The Walking Dead won`t be coming back. The licence is now owned by Skybound, the company that finished development on the last two episodes of The Walking Dead`s final season af ...
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