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Telltale Games is being revived

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Theorry

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Telltale Games, which shut down last year, is coming back after its assets were purchased by a company called LCG Entertainment. The new company will sell some of Telltale's back catalog and will work on new games based on a few Telltale-associated properties, as well as new licenses.

The new Telltale is headed up by Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle. Ottilie said that some workers from the original Telltale Games will be offered freelance roles, with full-time positions possible in the future.

Ottilie has spent much of his career in mobile games, most recently as founder and CEO of Galaxy Pest Control, which is best known for licensed games based on Duck Dynasty and Power Rangers. Waddle's previous experience includes running sales and marketing for the Havok game engine.
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Zephy

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Cautiously waiting to see how this actually turns out. I'd like a new season of Batman and Wolf Among Us but I'm not holding my breath.
 
Platy

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please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please
 
Javier23

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As long as the old management goes away... I read some horror stories on those articles that were published about it.
 
Toumari

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LCG Entertainment? Trying to google it seems to not bring up anything relevant. Also seems to be a mobile game company.

Not holding out much hope with this to be honest.
 
Kalor

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Fuck the freelancers aspect to this. The first priority for a relaunched Telltale should be getting full time jobs for anyone who hasn't been able to get a new job yet, not continuing that job insecurity.
 
Rezsolution

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Man, the original Telltale staff get fired suddenly without severance pay, then get told they can come back under the same label with the 'possibility' of a full-time role in future. I really do feel for them.

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Odesu

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The new Telltale is headed up by Jamie Ottilie and Brian Waddle. Ottilie said that some workers from the original Telltale Games will be offered freelance roles, with full-time positions possible in the future.

Ottilie has spent much of his career in mobile games, most recently as founder and CEO of Galaxy Pest Control, which is best known for licensed games based on Duck Dynasty and Power Rangers. Waddle's previous experience includes running sales and marketing for the Havok game engine.
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Javier23

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Freelance positions? Yeah, no, I hope literally no one in old Telltale has the need to take them up on their shitty offer. Might teach them.
 
NotLiquid

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Ottilie said that some workers from the original Telltale Games will be offered freelance roles, with full-time positions possible in the future.

Ottilie has spent much of his career in mobile games, most recently as founder and CEO of Galaxy Pest Control, which is best known for licensed games based on Duck Dynasty and Power Rangers. Waddle's previous experience includes running sales and marketing for the Havok game engine.
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well

okay

whatever
 
Rotobit

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can't wait for Telltale's Duck Dynasty

honestly the biggest benefit to this would be getting their backlog back on services in a more permanent fashion, I don't have much confidence in new games
 

Azubah

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Dec 30, 2017
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Meet the new Telltale, same as the old only they use Disney practices of having to fight for your old job.
 
Razgriz-Specter

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Do Batman 3 and also be sure to negotiate with DC for merchandise rights.
Im still amazed as much as people liked 1and 2 that DC never tried to merchandize it like Arkham or Injustice.
 
Infernostew

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I'm just hoping they can either port Tales of Monkey Island to current gen consoles or even just get it back on steam. I only own it on PS3... :(
 
cyrribrae

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Yea... this doesn't sound great, to me at least. None of that announcement is encouraging, to be perfectly honest. I will give them the benefit of the doubt, but boy sounds like we're making some of the same errors already.. A few vague new projects (are we already starting with spreading too thin so soon?) and the back catalog evidently will not keep a company afloat. And it doesn't sound like this purchase comes with the huge cash infusion necessary to really take a new tack on all of this... Uhh.. I'll be happy to be proven wrong, but I will VERY MUCH keep my expectations in check. And I just hope they spend the time to figure out what the hell they should be doing first.
 
IIFloodyII

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I imagine most of the talent has moved on by now. So just in name only, still sad we'll never get another game from the Tales From The Borderlands team, but that was the case before TT died.
 
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