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Telltale Games and Marvel will collaborate on 2017 project

Telltale Games has had a lot on its plate, as of late. But it's just added another marquee license, with a Marvel project announced for 2017.

Ozzie Mejia

April 23, 2015 6:38 PM

Telltale Games has been a very busy development house and they've just added another item to their growing library. The developers behind The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us, currently working on Tales from the Borderlands and Game of Thrones (and with a Minecraft story-based game in the works, too) will now be collaborating with Marvel for a new effort.

The deal was announced today at an event in San Francisco, as noted on the Telltale Games blog. However, there are few details coming out of this deal, as of right now. The game is expected to hit in 2017.

No word on which characters will be featured, but look for more information soon.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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April 23, 2015 6:38 PM

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- OzzieMejia
  
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  April 23, 2015 6:40 PM
  
  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- valcan_s
  
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  April 23, 2015 6:45 PM
  
  Awesome this is massive news, should be good.
- PenicillinX57
  
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  April 23, 2015 7:10 PM
  
  I seriously hope they aren't spreading themselves too thin. This is a LOT of different plates to keep spinning:
  
  Walking Dead
  Wolf Among Us
  Game of Thrones
  Tales from Borderlands
  Marvel
  Minecraft?
  
  I mean...holy shit, what other development studio takes this much on at once? Hope they know what they're doing...
  - baron calamity
    
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    April 23, 2015 7:48 PM
    
    Well 2017 is a long time away. Most of that list will be finished soon except Minecraft.
  - shirif
    
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    April 23, 2015 7:50 PM
    
    TWD:S2 was nowhere near as good as 1, so I have little hope.
    - code-e255
      
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      April 23, 2015 11:39 PM
      
      S2 was a real disappointment. The story was dumb as fuck and I always felt being forced into making stupid decisions I didn't actually want to choose.
    - aethyr
      
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      April 24, 2015 6:28 AM
      
      Unfortunately, the lead writers/directors, Sean Vanaman and Jake Rodkin, lead left before season 2.
- baron calamity
  
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  April 23, 2015 7:49 PM
  
  Wonder if its going to be an actual game or another pick your own path movie that Telltale has been spewing out over the past few years?
- [deleted] 495319440
  
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  April 23, 2015 9:58 PM
  
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- vertdang
  
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  April 23, 2015 10:13 PM
  
  Poker Night at the Inventory 3: ft Marvel characters! I hope.
  - OzzieMejia
    
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    April 23, 2015 10:40 PM
    
    .......................
    
    I...LOVE this idea!
    - vertdang
      
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      April 24, 2015 1:14 AM
      
      One of the Xmen on the left, Gambit pehaps, Agent/Director Coulson on the right, and Strongbad and Tony Stark in the middle.
      
      All in.
      - Arcanum
        
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        April 24, 2015 6:21 AM
        
        Bruce Banner/Hulk, Deadpool, Spiderman, and Doctor Doom
        
        Arcanum
        
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        April 24, 2015 6:28 AM
        
        Maybe replace Spiderman with someone else.
        
        cerealSAM2
        
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        April 24, 2015 7:38 AM
        
        Antman
        
        one random winner
        
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        April 24, 2015 8:10 AM
        
        Human Torch
        
        ConfusedUs
        
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        April 24, 2015 8:31 AM
        
        DOOM DOES NOT BLUFF
        
        *everyone folds except Reed Richards*
        *Doom reveals a pair of 2s*
        *Reed reveals a pair of Jacks*
        
        CURSE YOU RICHARDS!
        
        Arcanum
        
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        April 24, 2015 8:52 AM
        
        Hahaha, exactly. Doom's ego and pomposity would make him great in the game.
  - Creepin_Jeezus
    
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    April 24, 2015 12:13 AM
    
    I would be ok with this, but Max would have to make a comeback!
  - jonin
    
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    April 24, 2015 6:17 AM
    
    man that would be cool
  - Ride-My-Rocket
    
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    April 24, 2015 8:28 AM
    
    This would be awesome.
- DandySlayer
  
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  April 23, 2015 10:17 PM
  
  This isn't the Sam and Max game I've been waiting for.......
- Wolfslice
  
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  April 23, 2015 10:35 PM
  
  way rather have another monkey island
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    April 23, 2015 11:42 PM
    
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  - baron calamity
    
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    April 24, 2015 4:44 AM
    
    I would love that but I doubt Telltale knows how to make games anymore.
  - Dravenport
    
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    April 24, 2015 6:14 AM
    
    yessssss
  - Arceihn
    
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    April 24, 2015 7:49 AM
    
    I mean, I love Monkey Island, but old school adventure games haven't been Telltale's bag for a while.
- rtricoche
  
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  April 24, 2015 4:59 AM
  
  SURPRISE!
- CrustaR
  
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  April 24, 2015 6:30 AM
  
  Nah, I'm good.
- jet-poop
  
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  April 24, 2015 8:05 AM
  
  Telltale sure managed to kill adventure games again, didn't they. I can't imagine anything more boring at this point than yet another reskinned Walking Dead game.
  - guigr
    
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    April 24, 2015 8:22 AM
    
    I didn't play The Walking Dead for years because of comments like that. Because I played adventures games for a long time starting with Zak Mc Kraken and Future Wars and thought it might betray it.
    When I finally did, I found that it was a great game. So is The Wolf Among Us.
    - jet-poop
      
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      April 24, 2015 8:25 AM
      
      Loved the first one, it was fresh and interesting and the storytelling was good.
      
      The sequel is terribly written and the gameplay is too shallow to hold it together. At this point I'm not interested in more telltale games. Would love for them to change my mind.
      - guigr
        
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        April 24, 2015 8:27 AM
        
        I haven't played Season 2 yet :(
        
        jet-poop
        
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        April 24, 2015 8:33 AM
        
        A friend of mine loves it, so don't let me stop you. In fact I might have a worse reaction to it because I think he overhyped it by a wide margin.
        
        I thought the characterizations in particular were much weaker than the first game (which had such great, memorable characters).
- dahanese
  
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  April 24, 2015 8:50 AM
  
  they've been putting out some quality licensed shit and i fully endorse them continuing down that path.