Skybound Is Officially Starting Work on The Walking Dead Game

Last we heard about the final season of the Walking Dead game, Skybound – the folks who publish the comics and a number of other properties - announced that they were going to make a new team out of ex-Telltale developers in order to finish the long-anticipated story of Clementine and her happy world of undead corpse murder, since Telltale would be unable to on account of their being terrible. It’s been quiet since then, but now, in a blog post released earlier today, Skybound announced that they’re ready to actually get started on development: which means the new episodes will be out eventually.

It’s been a ton of work logistically and legally to get us to a place where we’re able to roll up our sleeves and get to the actual work. After Telltale shut its doors, the game was, unfortunately, unable to be worked on and hence the release dates of Episodes 3 and 4 have been delayed. But, we’re excited to let you know that many of the talented, passionate team members who originally worked on the game are resuming development efforts today!

Soon, we will be announcing release dates for the two remaining episodes. It’s likely that previous seasons of the game may be unavailable to purchase for a few days as we transition—but don’t panic!—we’ll have everything back online ASAP. If you already purchased Season Four, you will NOT have to pay again; future episodes will be available to download as soon as they are released via your original point of purchase.

That’s good news, although I can’t help but notice they say they have “many” of the team members ready to work, rather than “all.” Either that means not everyone is ready to work, or more likely, some people were never re-hired. That’s a shame, but it’s also just the nature of the industry.

As for when the next episode will release? We’ll just have to wait and see.