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Bloober Team Making New Horror Game For Skybound

Bloober Team

Polish game developer Bloober Team, best-known for Layers of Fear, The Medium, and Observer, as well as the upcoming Silent Hill 2 remake is working with The Walking Dead game owner, Skybound, to produce a new horror experience. Meanwhile, the dev is also working on a new horror IP for Take-Two Interactive’s Private Division.

As shared in a Polish press release (via Eurogamer), the horror dev has teamed up with Skybound to create a new horror game based on one of its many IPs slated for a 2025 release. It isn’t clear what property the team will be adapting, though. Standouts include The Walking Dead and Creepshow, though, it’s possible it could be a separate horror IP. Considering the critical panning of The Walking Dead’s latest exhibition into the gaming market — The Walking Dead: Destinites — it could go for a positive game.

We can’t say for sure, though, as The Walking Dead has, especially as of late, a rather troubled time making games that are properly “scary,” which Bloober Team has a track record of excelling at. Meanwhile, with the studio’s lofty sales expectations it wants for its future games, it likely inked a deal with a market-appealing IP. Whatever the case, this game — codenamed R — isn’t out for a while, so we have quite some time to mull over possible IPs.

What do you think? What IP do you think it is? Let us know below!

Minecraft: Story Mode To Be Delisted This Month

Minecraft Story Mode

Minecraft: Story Mode will become unavailable at the tail end of this month. On May 31st, an announcement was made on Mojang’s official site that people have until June 25 to download all episodes. Following that date, both seasons will be unsupported and unable to be played.

Late last year, fans were hit with a bombshell: Telltale Games, known for their story-driven, quick time games, was closing. Over the course of time, games published or developed by the company have begun fizzling out of digital marketplaces. Games like Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, Batman: The Enemy Within, and more are on the chopping block. Even one of the entries to Monkey Island has disappeared from the roster.

The announcement was surprising to many as Telltale was in the process of working on The Walking Dead: The Final Season. The closure ended up with them passing the duties to Skybound Games. The sudden nature of the announcement also seemed to catch employees off-guard as they are now fighting against legal battles from former employees.

Why they didn’t just drop this project if they had no intention of keeping them up on digital markets, I don’t know. On the bright side, Tales from the Borderlands is supposedly going to come back up. 2K is doing what they can to get the game into their hands.

This is exactly the scary thing about getting games digitally. It can be there one moment and gone the next.

Minecraft: Story Mode has lasted two seasons with a grand total of 13 episodes to play through. It can be played on PC, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Apple TV, and Netflix.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season Returns This January

The third episode of The Walking Dead: The Final Season is slated to release a bit later than expected. The developer that replaced Telltale, Skybound Games, expected to release the game by the end of 2018. This seems less and less like a possibility as the year is coming to a close in a mere three weeks. Fully aware of this, Skybound announced they will be releasing this episode later than planned.

Titled Broken Toys, this will be the first episode in the series to be developed by Skybound. Though, they made it clear that the crew from the original episodes were aiding in the production. A trailer was released on December 8 with its new release date tossed at the end.

The Walking Dead: The Final Season’s Broken Toys will release on January 15, 2019 on the PS4, Xbox One, and Nintendo Switch.

Skybound Games Picks up Telltale’s The Walking Dead

Following massive layoffs at Telltale Games, most Telltale projects were put to the side or promptly canceled. This led to fans worrying about the fate of The Walking Dead: The Final Season; and rightfully so, since the game was partially finished with, two of the five episodes completed and released to the public.

Some saw hope in the idea that the final project might be completed. This proved to be inaccurate, unfortunately, as the remaining crew have officially been terminated. The Final Season was a bitter-sweet thing for fans when episode two was released, and this seemed like the end of the series.

That is, until sales were paused on GOG and season passes were removed on Steam.

On October 6, Skybound Games announced it’ll be finishing what Telltale couldn’t. They also hope to keep the same Telltale developers behind the scene.