More likely to leave in the future
[Update:It seems thatJurassic Park: The Gameand all previous seasons ofThe Walking Deadhave been removed from Steam. You will still retain access if you’ve already purchased them.]
According to a report from GameDaily, Telltale Games is now entering the liquidation phase of its closing process. This is coming afterSeptember’s shock announcementthat the studio had laid off a majority of its staff and kept around 25 employees to finish off contractual obligations to other companies. It still seems like yesterday that we were first hearing about this.
While most people don’t really care to hear all the business mumbo-jumbo behind this process, the immediate effect for customers is that some games have been delisted from Steam. Currently, you will no longer be able to buyBack to the Future: The GameorTales of Monkey Islandfrom Valve’s digital storefront. As of the time of writing,bothgamesare still available on GOG.com.
This is likely more to do with licensing issues for both titles instead of the liquidation process, but the titles are likely to disappear from other storefronts in the near future. If you have been eying picking up either game on PS3 or PC, ensure to do it now before they completely disappear.
If you are more interested in learning about the business behind these decisions, GameDaily’s report goes into pretty extreme detail about who is handling the liquidation and what it will mean for the current employees of the company. Since I’m not so up to speed on business jargon, it loses me in the middle, but it seems that Telltale will be closing a lot sooner than expected.
Telltale Games is closing, liquidation underway and games being removed from Steam[GameDaily]
