The Walking Dead’s creator is hiring former Telltale developers to finish the game

The sudden closure of Telltale Games came alongside the company’s firing of most of its staff, and it’s left questions in its wake - among them, what’s to become of the final season of The Walking Dead, the studio’s tentpole series? Now, series creator Robert Kirkman says he’s hiring Telltale’s Walking Dead team on to finish the adventure series. At New York Comic Con this weekend, Kirkman told an audience that his company Skybound has negotiated with Telltale Games to take over development of The Walking Dead and see it through to completion. He said Skybound will hire on developers from Telltale’s Walking Dead team in order to see the project through to completion. “We can’t lose Andrew Lincoln and Clementine in the same year,” Kirkman quipped, as Variety reports. The notice that the final season of The Walking Dead will actually see the light of day may be reassuring to fans, but it’s probably cold comfort to the more than 250 employees Telltale laid off at the end of last month with no notice or severance.