https://www.usgamer.net/articles/report-telltale-games-shutting-down-the-wolf-among-us-2-and-stranger-things-canceled

 
Telltale Games- the studio behind The Walking Dead, The Wolf Among Us, Tales From The Borderlands and more- will be closing. The studio currently maintains only a skeleton crew of 25 out of what once was an estimated 250 employees at peak. Sadly, the employees that were let go received no severance pay, while those remaining have been tasked with completing a single final project. Always sad to see a game studio close but you have to make games that are attractive to customers.
 
 

EA should buy them out and create Walking Dead: Battle Royale Zombie Edition. 

aka_STEVE_b
kinda shame , they were pretty much the only people making those type of games successful. ( at least I thought so )

Looks like nobody was making those types of games successful...
 
Really I am kind of surprised by this and was waiting for the final season to get the whole thing for Walking Dead. Now I am not sure I will pick up the title if the story is left unfinished.

Well they have come confirmed that they did stop working on the last season of TWD by mentioning they're looking for help to finish it. Even though they made it sound like they're doing it for the fans I feel it's more to stave off any possible repercussions from potential lawsuits and more than likely was told by the IP\franchise owner, Robert Kirkman, that they're required to finish it.

This company got pretty bad when they were just rolling out the same garbage with a new skin over and over again. I stopped buying their games, they got boring. 
 

fearpoint
They aren't even games. 

 
Oh, but people argued they were... I even stated the games were boring as hell on the Steam forums, but you know how that goes. I wonder if people are still defending their games over there? Probably. 

fearpoint
They aren't even games. 

Anything someone decides is fun is considered a game. It just depends on what you think is fun.

Killmur
I think part of what hurt them was when Life is Strange came out with a better story and choice system implemented. Granted I never played the game but I've seen it played and I could tell Dontnod had something better going for episodic gaming. Even Hitman did as well. In fact I do believe IO Interactive even said despite it being episodic it sold pretty darn well. So yea it wasn't just internal issues but external as well that hurt them. What also hurt them was Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones bombing upon release. Not to mention the controversy behind taking Minecraft and turning it into a episodic game.
 
In short it was a massive laundry list of problems that lead to their demise and the screw over of every single employee.

Did anyone think Telltale would not make Minecraft an episodic game? Second anyone said Telltale I knew what to expect five chapters spread out over about a year. In a way I also think that is what hurt the Game of Thrones game since it seemed to be about a season behind the show when it launched then felt two seasons behind when it ended. As for the storyline feeling like it wasn't as good as other games like Life is Strange it's really a good point. I have enjoyed the Telltale games I have played (mostly walking dead) but the style really kind of feels old compared to newer games like Detroit Become Human for the PS4 which was fun and different from most games I had been playing but after the credits rolled on it I can't say I wanted to really look at changing what I did on my first playthrough.