Josh Fairhurst, owner of the ever popular Limited Run Games, has made quite the announcement on his official Twitter account. It seems that over the course of five years, the company has crossed the 2,500,000 physical games sold mark: Today we crossed 2,500,000 physical games sold over the last five years at @LimitedRunGames. I can
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Few series are as synonymous with a genre as the Monkey Island series is with point-and-click adventure games. And while the series slowly approaches its 30th anniversary, Limited Run Games and Lucasfilm Games has revealed that the legendary series will be getting a ‘franchise-spanning anthology box’ on PC. Revealed as one of the end-cap announcements of
With what’s been happening in the past and especially in light of current events, it’s important to reflect on the video games that have centered or been inclusive of black characters, as well as games led by black developers. Representation has been an ongoing conversation in video games (and other forms of media), and the
As 2019 comes to a close, DualShockers and our staff are reflecting on this year’s batch of games and what were their personal highlights within the last year. Unlike the official Game of the Year 2019 awards for DualShockers, there are little-to-no-rules on our individual Top 10 posts. For instance, any game — not just
In an interview with IGN, Telltale Games’ CEO Jamie Ottilie says the new iteration of the developer is working to build a studio that doesn’t rely on crunch. “We are taking a measured and methodical approach to growth in order to ensure we can provide a stable, non-crunch work environment,” says Ottilie. “We are building this
Telltale Games, a developer who rose to prominence thanks to their great choice-driven and story-focused adventure games, infamously and abruptly shut down last year. Initially, many of their games and IP were left in limbo, but that has changed over the course of the last year. Skybound saved The Walking Dead: The Final Season early
Minecraft: Story Mode is coming to an end. The episodic point and click graphic adventure game, developed and published by Telltale Games in association with Mojang, will no longer be supported. Minecraft: Story Mode released the first five episodes of the game back in October 2015 and continued through March 2016, with additional episodes released as DLC
While the closure of Telltale Games last fall left an unfortunate note on the release of the remaining episodes of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, the last two installments of the series were finally released earlier this year from Skybound Games and its StillNotBitten development team. Given that the series managed to reach a satisfying
Skybound announced today The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series on Xbox One, PS4, and PC via Epic Game Store. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is a compilation with all seasons and many upgrades. Among these are graphical improvements, and making-of like bonus features. The game is available physically for pre-order on Skybound’s
If the free God of War theme Playstation released earlier wasn’t enough, the publisher and console developer revealed a brand new dynamic Game of Thrones theme to celebrate the series finale premiering tonight. The theme depicts both the fire and ice dragons one of the iconic dragons of the franchise as they breathe fire with
Following the tragic closure of Telltale Games last fall and development that shifted hands over to the StillNotBitten team at Skybound Games, The Walking Dead: The Final Season finally brought the story of Clementine to a bittersweet close. While the journey may be over for Telltale’s take on The Walking Dead, its impact will live on, as
The final episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, “Take Us Back,” carries with it a lot of weight, even more so than the usual season finales that we’ve come to expect from other episodic games, Telltale or otherwise. This final episode not only has to wrap up a season of narrative storytelling, but also
Last month when Episode 3 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season arrived, we reported that the in-game menu stated that the fourth and final episode of this series would seemingly launch on March 26. Despite this listing though, Skybound Games had yet to comment on if this was the true date or simply a placeholder. Well
In the brand new trailer for the penultimate episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, you can catch a glimpse at the dark side of Clementine as well as get a tease of Lee’s return to the series. The game has had some development issues – if that’s one way to put it. Back in September 2018, Telltale
After a tumultuous time for Telltale Games in the past few months leading to the studio’s closure this past fall, the fate of The Walking Dead: The Final Season was up in the air with the season having only been two episodes in. However, the Kinda Funny Games Showcase confirmed that we’ll see the next episode
On September 21st of this year, Telltale Games – acclaimed developers of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and more – laid off a majority of its workforce with no severance package and closed its doors for good. For weeks after the announcement, information regarding the shutdown
Skybound Games announced just a few days ago that they would be holding a Reddit AMA to answer more fan questions about The Walking Dead: The Final Season and that event took place tonight. Skybound Games’ CEO Ian Howe was in the AMA thread responding to as many different questions as possible and as you might
The past month has been a tumultuous one for Telltale Games and the status of The Walking Dead: The Final Season. Even though the last piece of news in this saga was one of positivity as Skybound Games agreed to step in and finish The Walking Dead: The Final Season, many fans still have a lot of
Today Skybound Games announced at New York Comic Con that Telltale’s The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be completed. The publisher founded by Walking Dead creator Robert Kirkman echoed the announcement on Twitter. We’re SO happy to announce that we’ve reached a deal with @telltalegames that will allow Skybound to continue #TheWalkingDead: The Final Season! Let’s wrap up
The Walking Dead: The Final Season could possibly get its much-needed ending, according to a report. Not long after Telltale laid off the majority of its workforce, the adventure game was taken off of digital stores, but the company released a statement indicating that they were looking at options for completing the series. A report
Last week brought the unfortunate news that Telltale Games, the developer behind acclaimed episodic titles such as The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, would begin a majority studio closure that resulted in the layoffs of the majority of its staff. In the wake of the news, the fate of the studio’s current project, The Walking Dead:
In another unexpected development following the closure of Telltale Games, a Reddit user leaked footage of the company’s now-canceled Stranger Things project. The leak shows off gameplay featuring TV show characters Will Byers, his mother Joyce Byers, and a Demogorgon in the Upside Down. The leaked footage depicts will in an interactive conversation with Joyce, in
Last week’s layoffs and inevitable closure of Telltale Games was heartbreaking for a variety of different reasons, one of which being that the studio likely wouldn’t be able to finish the currently ongoing series The Walking Dead: The Final Season according to multiple reports including that of Melissa Hutchison, Clementine’s own voice actress. This evening, Telltale released
Ever since the sudden shuttering of Telltale Games, an aura of uncertainty has floated over several of their planned projects. One such was a game based on Netflix hit show Stranger Things, but the project will move on as the streaming company will evaluate “other options” for it. The only project reportedly in the works
Without a doubt, this last week has been one of the most impactful in recent memory when it comes to studio closings. Between Capcom Vancouver and Telltale Games shuttering their studios, many projects and the people working on them are up in limbo with their futures uncertain. Thankfully, gaming publishers and developers don’t exist in
From its titles like The Walking Dead series, The Wolf Among Us, Tales from the Borderlands, and more, Telltale Games defined itself as the home for engaging storytelling and characters, though as previous reports seem to have confirmed, the studio has unfortunately revealed that it will be closing down in the near future. Following reports earlier today of
As the studio behind narrative-driven, episodic experiences such as The Walking Dead series, The Wolf Among Us, and many other projects based on major licenses, Telltale Games carved out a niche for itself in giving players immersive stories, though as reported earlier today, one of the studio’s co-founders has confirmed that the future for Telltale Games may
According to multiple sources, Telltale Games, the creators of popular episodic adventure games like The Walking Dead, Tales from the Borderlands, The Wolf Among Us, Batman, Game of Thrones, and more are reportedly being hit with a huge number of layoffs. The Verge is reporting that the studio has laid off almost the entirety of the staff
With the end now in sight, Telltale Games is moving full steam ahead in bringing players a dramatic conclusion to the story of Clementine in their signature The Walking Dead series, and with the next chapter of The Walking Dead: The Final Season, it appears that threats new and will be making their way into Clementine’s life.
The Walking Dead: The Final Season by Telltale Games will come to retailers on disc for PS4 and Xbox One. With several more episodes to be released, the physical version of the adventure game will contain the first two episodes of the season, with the last two episodes being downloadable through the disc. Briefly mentioned