13 Most WTF Gaming Industry Moments Of 2018
13. Telltale Games Goes Bust
Nobody saw this coming. In September, Telltale Games announced that 90% of their workforce was being made redundant amid a "majority studio closure", with a skeleton crew of just 25 employees staying on to complete their current project commitments.
As if this wasn't bad enough, employees were given no warning of the closure, received no severance pay and had to vacate the office within 30 minutes of the announcement.
As such, several games deep in development - including new seasons of The Wolf Among Us and Game of Thrones, as well as a Stranger Things game - were effectively cancelled.
Though negotiations were successful for The Walking Dead's final season to be completed by the original dev team under Skybound Games, Telltale officially filed for bankruptcy on November 14.
For a company that seemed indestructible to the outside world, it was a truly shocking and baffling series of events. How could a company with so many successful episodic titles be insolvent?
Mismanagement has been cited as the biggest problem, not to mention Telltale spreading itself too thinly across too many projects, many of which apparently weren't as profitable as expected.