The Walking Dead: The Final Season will be finished by Skybound Games

Skybound Games, a division of Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment, today announced they've picked up the rights to The Walking Dead: The Final Season from Telltale Games. "Let's wrap up Clem’s story right!" they tweeted. "More details to come soon."

Kirkman, the creator of the original Walking Dead comic series, also brought it up at a panel at New York Comic Con, saying, "We've successfully negotiated with Telltale Games for our company Skybound to come in and see Season 4 of the Telltale game to completion.”

A statement from Skybound quoted by IGN suggests that some of Telltale's former staff will be working on it, perhaps a slight silver lining for employees who were laid off without severance. "Skybound will work with members of the original Telltale team to finish the story in a way the fans deserve", they quoted. "Skybound will continue to update fans on the status of the game on Skybound.com, Twitter, and Facebook."

The second episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season was released last month, shortly after the announcement of a majority closure at Telltale, though it was then removed from sale on digital storefronts. Skybound have published several videogames, including an adaptation of another Kirkman comic, Thief of Thieves.

Jody Macgregor
Weekend/AU Editor

Jody's first computer was a Commodore 64, so he remembers having to use a code wheel to play Pool of Radiance. A former music journalist who interviewed everyone from Giorgio Moroder to Trent Reznor, Jody also co-hosted Australia's first radio show about videogames, Zed Games. He's written for Rock Paper Shotgun, The Big Issue, GamesRadar, Zam, Glixel, Five Out of Ten Magazine, and Playboy.com, whose cheques with the bunny logo made for fun conversations at the bank. Jody's first article for PC Gamer was about the audio of Alien Isolation, published in 2015, and since then he's written about why Silent Hill belongs on PC, why Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale is the best fantasy shopkeeper tycoon game, and how weird Lost Ark can get. Jody edited PC Gamer Indie from 2017 to 2018, and he eventually lived up to his promise to play every Warhammer videogame.