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The Walking Dead game creator Telltale Games lays off most of staff (updated)

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The Walking Dead game series creator Telltale Games has laid off a large part of its staff and may be in danger of shutting down.

Gamasutra reported the news first, but the details were vague about whether a shutdown will happen. US Gamer also reported massive layoffs occurred, and The Verge said the company now has a skeleton crew of about 25 or so people from the original 250. The net loss in jobs is probably around 80 percent or 90 percent.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.