The Walking Dead Telltale studio has been hit by layoffs

Telltale Games, creators of episodic adventure games like The dead who walk, The wolf among us, and Batman: the enemy in the interior, dismissed a large number of its employees today. The company will keep a small team of about 25 people. According to several sources The edge spoke with, the employees were dropped without compensation.

The last season of the award-winning Telltale series, The dead who walk, started last month. The second episode should be launched next week.

The layoffs came a few months after the revelations that Telltale was a bunkhouse in the management of toxic products that included employees subjected to constant overwork. Once a darling industry, working on iconic brands like The iron Throne and MinecraftTelltale quickly spiraled. In June, co-founder and former CEO Kevin Bruner brought an action against the company to recover the financial damages. Telltale described the lawsuit as "without merit" and "an apparent way to take revenge on a company already under financial strain".

This is not the first time that Telltale has been laid off; Last November, the company had laid off 90 employees, or about 25 percent of its workforce. "The environmental realities we face in a changing demand are also evolving, reorienting our organization by focusing on delivering fewer and better games with a smaller team," said CEO Pete Hawley.

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