Episodes 3 and 4 of The Walking Dead: The Final Season may be completed and released in some form in the future, according to Telltale Games. — AFP Relaxnews
Award-winning adventure game The Walking Dead may reach a conclusion after all, even though development studio Telltale Games closed down at the end of last week.
Telltale Games laid off almost all of its staff in a Sept 21 announcement, the third such West Coast US studio to do so in three weeks.
It marks a sudden and largely unexpected end of the road for the studio's staff as well as for its fans, leaving several projects cancelled and a couple more in limbo.
One of those, an official spin-off from Robert Kirkman's graphic novel The Walking Dead – source material for AMC's zombie apocalypse TV series – was halfway through delivering its final season, Sept 25's episode, the second of four sold as a single package.
In June 2018, Netflix had partnered with Telltale for a version of Minecraft: Story Mode that could be played over the video streaming service.
"Minecraft: Story Mode is still moving forward as planned," Netflix said in a statement given to Polygon, with the skeleton crew staff retained by Telltale, including members of the game's team.
Netflix had another iron in the fire in the form of a second Stranger Things adaptation – the first, a highly rated Season 1 and 2 interquel, was released for Android and iOS in October 2017.
The network is "evaluating other options" for the show's possible future as "an interactive medium", though not explicitly committing to a future as a Telltale-style choice-and-consequence adventure.
And thirdly, Telltale moved to reassure fans that "multiple potential partners have stepped forward to express interest in helping to see (The Walking Dead:) The Final Season through to completion" (per Twitter).
"While we can't make any promises today, we are actively working towards a solution that will allow episodes 3 and 4 to be completed and released in some form." – AFP Relaxnews
