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Telltale Reveals 1 Million 'Episodes' Sold, E3 Franchise Debut
by Staff
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May 14, 2009
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Celebrating its fifth anniversary in business, Sam & Max and Strong Bad episodic game maker Telltale has revealed one million 'episodes' sold to date, also promising a "new series" reveal at E3 next month.
The Bay Area-headquartered company was founded by Kevin Bruner and Dan Connors in 2004, and has concentrated on working with well-known licenses to make episodic adventure games.
CEO Connors was the subject of a just-debuted a two-part Gamasutra interview series, and some of his company's notable partnerships include deals with Aardman Animations' Wallace & Gromit, Homestarrunner.com's Strong Bad, Steve Purcell's Sam & Max, Jeff Smith's Bone, and television's CSI.
The company also claims to have releasede the first regularly-scheduled episodic series on PC (Sam & Max) and the first monthly game series for a console (Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People on WiiWare)
Telltale also revealed that it has now sold over 1,000,000 game episodes worldwide across all channels, platforms, and formats, with 20 games released since Spring 2005 on PC, Xbox 360, and Wii -- and plans to expand to other systems later this year.
The developer's most recent project, Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventures, is releasing monthly on PC and coming soon to Xbox Live Arcade, and notably, a "new series in development will be announced at E3", the company announced.
"The episodic model has been incredibly rewarding from a development standpoint," said Telltale CTO and co-founder Kevin Bruner. "It used to be we only made two or three games a decade. At Telltale, we release a new game every month, which fosters greater creativity with the teams, and the customers get to enjoy more content on a regular basis."
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