The consolidation of the games industry continues apace. Lost Boys will carry on working on their own projects alongside their work for Gearbox. Gearbox also announced yesterday that they’ve acquired Lost Boys Interactive, contributors to Gearbox Software’s Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands. Telltale are now busy working on The Wolf Among Us 2 and an episodic game based on The Expanse. Tales From The Borderlands was unavailable for a few years because of the shenanigans that befell Telltale, until the game was revived by Gearbox. Telltale Games shut down in 2018 but were revived a year later. Telltale congratulated Gearbox on the announcement on Twitter, but clarified that they aren’t involved in the sequel, adding “In the end, we’re all borderfam.” Telltale Games developed and published the original Tales From The Borderlands, which released many Pandoran moons ago in 2014, under licence from Gearbox. The new game is published by 2K and developed in-house by Gearbox Software.
Maybe they’ll give us an idea then whether the characters from the first game will see that cliffhanger ending reach a conclusion? The game is set in the Borderlands universe and takes place primarily on the Pandora. The first episode of the title was released in November 2014, while the fifth and last was made available in August 2015. He explained that Gearbox has been working on the game for many years, and confirmed that more will be revealed in summer. Tales from the Borderlands is an episodic graphic adventure video game developed by Telltale Games and published by the same company. “This time, we’re doing it to imagine all-new characters, and all-new stories, from the Borderlands,” Pitchford said. Skip to about five minutes from before the end if you’re just interested in the Tales From The Borderlands announcement. Especially one about a Vault key, the Hyperion Corporation, bandits, loot.
Gearbox CEO Randy Pitchford – who stepped aside as head of Gearbox Software last October – dropped the existence of the project right at the end of the PAX East presentation while wearing some shockingly Borderlands-yellow chinos. Metacritic Game Reviews, Tales from the Borderlands: A Telltale Game Series for PC, Like all good tales, there’s more than one side to a story. It’s out this year, Gearbox revealed at this week’s PAX East event. And like I said Borderlands 3 picks up on story beats from the Telltale series, so if you haven’t played it, at least go watch a playthrough on youtube or twitch.Gearbox Software are making an “all-new” follow-up to Telltale Games’ Tales From The Borderlands episodic graphic adventure set in the Borderlands universe. With this being the year of Borderlands, 2K Games is massively pushing all games in the franchise.
I think we are now in a phase where the license has ended but the new publisher hasn’t worked out everything to keep it up. Tales from the Borderlands was originally published by Telltale Games.
While nothing more than the official statement above has been released, I personally think that 2K Games is working out some legal stuff to obtain the full publishing rights. – a spokesperson for 2K Games, the publisher of Borderlands All prior digital purchases of the game will of course still be honored and supported. We are working to get Tales from the Borderlands back up on digital storefronts as soon as possible. With the upcoming release of Borderlands 3, the Tales from the Borderlands series has become super relevant again since Borderlands 3 picks up on story beats from the Telltale series. It delivered a true Borderlands story experience while not being a first-person shooter. I had a really good time with Tales from the Borderlands. The beloved, choice-driven narrative adventure through the Borderlands universe is back Set between the events of Borderlands 2 and Borderlands 3, Tales from the Borderlands follows two unreliable narrators on a quest borne of greed but destined for greatness. Which is sad because Telltale made great interactive stories. Valve also removed the option to buy Tales from the Borderlands on steam.
Good Old Games (GoG) has announced it will no longer be selling any of Telltale’s games starting May 27.
With the Telltale studio shutting down, it seems that the licenses also are coming to an end.